The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field
- A. Nicholls
- Business
- 1 July 2010
Following Kuhn, this article conceptualizes social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre–paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology. Using approaches from…
Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change
- A. Nicholls
- Political Science
- 1 April 2008
"Social Entrepreneurship" is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which…
'We do good things, don't we?': 'Blended Value Accounting' in social entrepreneurship
- A. Nicholls
- Business
- 1 August 2009
Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption
- A. Nicholls, Charlotte Opal
- Business, Economics
- 7 June 2005
Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. This timely and thoughtful book looks at the strategic future for Fair Trade. Each…
The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities
- A. Nicholls
- Economics, Sociology
- 1 March 2010
Abstract Across the world, a new landscape of social investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10–15 years, yet there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date. This paper…
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in regulatory space: Reporting and disclosure by community interest companies
- A. Nicholls
- Business
- 1 May 2010
Strategic Options in Fair Trade Retailing
- A. Nicholls
- Business
- 2002
Notes that there has been a significant increase in the market for fair trade products in the UK over the past five years. Provides a definition of fair trade and goes on to set a context for the…
The Nature of Social Innovation
- A. Nicholls, A. Murdock
- Economics, History
- 2012
Historical analyses of macro-level innovation across the developed economies often identify a series of waves of technological change, typically starting with the Industrial Revolution in the…
Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets
- A. Nicholls, A. Murdock
- Business
- 1 December 2012
Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important…
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