The rise of unemployment across the globe has created a need for an increase in community-focused business plans and opportunities. Social enterprises have the ability to improve societies through altruistic work to create sustainable work environments for future entrepreneurs and their communities.

Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship combines the latest scholarly research on the challenges and solutions social entrepreneurs face as they address their corporate social responsibility in an effort to redefine the goals of today’s enterprises and enhance the potential for growth and change in every community. This publication is an essential reference source for policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, entrepreneurs, and government officials interested in furthering their positive social impact in a business context.

This publication features timely, research-based chapters focused on corporate social responsibility, the economy, marketing ventures, sustainable livelihood, millennium development, and legal empowerment.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Corporate Social Responsibility
Legal Empowerment
Marketing Ventures
Millennium Development Goals
Social Economy
Social Value
Sustainable Livelihood
Unemployment

Reviews & Statements

These authors have included global literature in simple but scientific language. Thinking must be converted into planning and planning must be converted into doing: this is the major theme of the book. This book discusses the importance of socially-minded business people, global corporation and government policy for society and community, social welfare, schools, health cares for all. It also explores social entrepreneurship and its growth and development along with benefits and necessities of socially-driven societies and communities. Social entrepreneurship can help to fill the gaps between rich and poor. This book contributes great ideas for sustainable growth development, resulting in a better human world with peace and happiness.

– Arpita Mehta, Independent Research Scholar, India

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Ziska Fields is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics, Department of Business Management at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). Prof Fields is an Alumna at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban and an external researcher and habilitator at the Chair of Innovation Research and Technology Management, Chemnitz University of Technology. She has recently qualified as a Neethling Brain Instruments (NBI) Practitioner focusing on identifying and developing peoples preferred thinking styles and to help them think more creatively at school, university and in the workplace. She has been appointed as the Ambassador for the World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) and World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) in South Africa, as well as some southern African countries like Namibia and Botswana for 2021. The purpose of this role is to connect cities, regions and countries to the WCIW creative community and to foster creativity by promoting, empowering and supporting the WCIW’s creativity mission. Professor Fields has 13 years’ experience in the Financial Industry and 12 years’ experience in Higher Education experience. Her qualifications include a BA degree (Communication Sciences), Diploma in Management Studies, MBA (Cum Laude) and PhD (Business Administration). She teaches and supervises various Management and Entrepreneurship focus area at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research and supervisory focus areas include Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Responsible Management and Human Resources with a focus on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Her main research focus area and passion is theoretical and applied creativity across various disciplines and contexts. She developed two theoretical models to measure creativity in South Africa, focusing on youth and tertiary education. She edited five books published by IGI Global titled “Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship”, “Collective creativity for responsible and sustainable business practice”, “Handbook of Research on Information and Cyber Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Responsible, Sustainable, and Globally Aware Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Imagination, Creativity and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. She is currently busy with a book titled “Using Global Collective Intelligence and Creativity to Solve Wicked Problems: Emerging Research and Opportunities” which should be published by the end of 2020. She also has various other research areas, which include Entrepreneurship, Management, Innovation, Higher Education, Responsible Management Education, Human Resources, Future Studies and Information Technology. She edited four books titled “Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship”, “Collective creativity for responsible and sustainable business practice”, “Handbook of Research on Information and Cyber Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Responsible, Sustainable, and Globally Aware Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Imagination, Creativity, and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. She has published various book chapters and papers and presented various conference papers. Professor Fields developed two theoretical models to measure creativity in South Africa, focusing on youth and tertiary education. Professor Fields is a driven, dedicated and passionate person who loves animals, learning new things and is constantly inspired by the positive and life-changing impact that education can have on people. Her objective is to make a difference by empowering people and helping them to reach their full potential. She strongly believes that creativity and entrepreneurial action can help people to create a better and sustainable future for themselves and society.

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