Using Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation to Mitigate Wealth Inequality

Buch | Softcover
180 Seiten
2018
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5474-1661-5 (ISBN)

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Using Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation to Mitigate Wealth Inequality - Thomas S. Lyons, Roger E. Hamlin, Amanda Hamlin
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This series aims to increase dialogue between and within the private and public sectors on the leading environmental, social, and governance issues of our time. Exploring and testing the very purpose of corporations and governments, the series features practical solutions to complex challenges.
Economic inequality continues to contribute to political and social instability around the world. This instability stifles development and results in widening the wealth gap between the "haves" and "have nots," further eroding stability. It has been argued that entrepreneurship is a prime contributor to this vicious cycle. Using Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation to Mitigate Wealth Inequality contends that this is only true when the opportunity for entrepreneurship is limited to a few. The authors maintain that when entrepreneurship is open to anyone who is properly motivated, innovative, and has a goal of growth for their enterprise, it helps build wealth for a greater number of people. The concept of "social entrepreneurship" is introduced, where entrepreneurship becomes a vehicle for explicitly addressing community-based economic and social challenges using markets. The book uses examples of entrepreneurial projects and programs that have attempted to address inequality to discuss entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy and its role in addressing the challenges of economic inequality. It advocates thinking and acting systemically, creating and sustaining entrepreneurial support ecosystems, in order to generate the synergy required to scale-up development and transform our economies and provides a distinctive perspective on a pressing social and economic issue, with significant implications for the future of the United States and the world.

Thomas S. Lyons, Roger E. Hamlin, Michigan State University; Amanda Hamlin, Oakton Community College

Acknowledgments

About the Authors



Introduction

1 Wealth Inequality: What is it? Why do We Care?

2 Growth and Development

3 The Rise of Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

4 How Entrepreneurship Can Be Fostered in a Way That Mitigates Wealth Inequality

5 An Example from New York City: Competition THRIVE

6 An Example from Chicago: The West Side Business Xcelerator

7 An Example from Michigan: The MSU Product Center Food-Ag-Bio

8 An Example from Poland: The Warsaw Entrepreneurship Forum

9 Community Entrepreneurship: The Cases of the Lumber Enterprise in Ixtlan, Mexico and the Pubs of Rural Ireland

10 Social Entrepreneurship among Native Peoples of the Americas: A Model or an Exception?

11 Necessary but not Sufficient: Only Systemic Approaches Transform



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Alexandra Lajoux Corporate Governance Series
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 294 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Wirtschaft
Technik Architektur
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Mikroökonomie
Schlagworte Entrepreneurship, Mitigate inequality, Economic in
ISBN-10 1-5474-1661-0 / 1547416610
ISBN-13 978-1-5474-1661-5 / 9781547416615
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