Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship: Positive Change Unleashed

In this book, the authors argue that social enterprise is surrounded by great promise, and that this high expectation has contributed to its pitfalls, setting social enterprise out as separate and different from other kinds of business, public service provision, and nonprofit organising for social benefit.

Sheila Cannon is Assistant Professor in Social Entrepreneurship at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is Director of Engagement at the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation. She publishes research on and teaches about the third sector including social enterprises, nonprofits, and civil society organisations. Her research contributes to knowledge on how organisations influence and respond to sociocultural change. She worked in peacebuilding for 12 years in southeast Europe and Northern Ireland and is chair of the board of the social enterprise, Shuttle Knit. She has a bachelor’s degree in Ancient Greek from Vassar College, New York.

Concepción Galdón is IE Business School’s Vice-Dean for Business with Purpose and Director of IE Foundation’s Center for Social Innovation and Sustainability. Concepción teaches sustainable business, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable innovation and technology. Concepción is also president of the social venture Puentes Global, which she co-founded in 2009 and has collaborated in several civil society initiatives aimed at fostering business with purpose. Concepción is an economist at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She holds a Master in Public Administration and International Development from Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD in International Economy and Development from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.