Economic Issues of Social Entrepreneurship

Part 1 The essence and manifestations of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy.- Chapter 1 Social entrepreneurship as a subject of the market economy and the consumer society: essence, specific features, and tendencies of development.- Chapter 2 Non-profit organizations as subjects of social entrepreneurship in the market economy.- Chapter 3 Corporate social responsibility as a criterion of assigning commercial business to social entrepreneurship in the market economy.- Chapter 4 Systemic scientific vision of social entrepreneurship in the unity of its manifestations: non-profit and socially responsible business.- Part 2 Sectorial features of social entrepreneurship in the modern market economy.- Chapter 5 Social entrepreneurship in services markets: responsible service vs. non-profit services.- Chapter 6 Social entrepreneurship in commodity markets: industry, agriculture, and agro-industrial complex.- Chapter 7 Hi-tech social entrepreneurship in the markets of the digital economy: preconditions, barriers, and perspectives of overcoming.- Chapter 8 Infrastructural provision of social entrepreneurship: the universal methodology of measuring and specifics in emerging markets.- Part 3 Specifics of social entrepreneurship in emerging markets.- Chapter 9 Social entrepreneurship as an institute of emerging markets: forms of organization and institutional regulation.- Chapter 10 Specific features of social entrepreneurship in emerging markets: non-profit activities vs. social responsibility.- Chapter 11 Social entrepreneurship in the unity of the main components in emerging markets: special entrepreneurial capabilities and talents vs. professional competencies and standards.- Chapter 12 Contribution of social entrepreneurship into socio-economic development and increase of population's living standards in emerging markets.- Part 4 The current problems of development and contradictions of social entrepreneurship.- Chapter 13 "Institutional traps" on the path of

Elena G. Popkova is Doctor of Economics and Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia. She is also President of the autonomous non-profit organization "Institute of Scientific Communications", Russia.

Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor at the Harvard University, USA, an Affiliate at the Center for International Development at Harvard, and an Associate at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets and Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth. He teaches Political Economy and International Finance at the University of Messina and co-directs the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD).