List of Tables List of Figures Foreword; S.R.Smith Notes on Contributors Introduction; B.Gidron & Y.Hasenfeld PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES The State of Theory and Research on Social Enterprises; D.R.Young Social Enterprises and Social Categories; J.Galaskiewicz & S.N.Barringer Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States; J.Defourny & M.Nyssens Defining Social Enterprise across Different Contexts: A Conceptual Framework Based on Institutional Factors; J.A.Kerlin PART II: EMPIRICAL STUDIES Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service vs. Market; E.Garrow & Y.Hasenfeld The Phenomenon of Social Businesses: Some Insights from Israel; B.Gidron & I.Abbou Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects; P.B.McInerney Chasing the Double-Bottom Line: Fair Trade and the Elusive Win-win; C.Child Mission Control: Examining the Institutionalization of New Legal Forms of Social Enterprise in Different Strategic Action Fields; K.Cooney Postscript The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre Paradigmatic Field; A.Nicholls

Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive