Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Lars Hulgaard -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in the Nordics : narratives emerging from -- Social movements and welfare dynamics / Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell, and Roger Spear -- Social entrepreneurship demolition of the welfare state or an arena for solidarity? / Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Lars Hulgaard -- Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises : chameleons through times and values / Malin Gawell -- Evolution of the social enterprise concept in Finland / Harri Kostilainen and Pekka Pottiniemi -- Social enterprise as a contested terrain for definitions and practice : the case of Norway / Hans Abraham Hauge and Tora Mathea Wasvik -- Practicing entrepreneuring and citizenship : social venturing as a learning context for university students / Bengt Johannisson -- Employees as social intrapreneurs : active employee participation in social innovation / Catharina Juul Kristensen -- The added value of social entrepreneurship in contemporary social design in Norway / Brita Fladvad Nielsen and Jonas Asheim -- Social entrepreneurship : between Odysseus' scar and Abraham's sacrifice / Daniel Ericsson -- Social entrepreneurship as collaborative processes in rural Sweden / Yvonne von Friedrichs and Anders Lundstrom -- Microfinance as a case study of social entrepreneurship in Norway / Unni Beate Sekkesoeter -- Social change through temporary short-term interventions : the role of legitimacy in organizing social innovation / Anders Edvik and Fredrik Bjork -- Entrepreneurship invited into the (social) welfare arena / Malin Gawell, Elisabeth Sundin, and Malin Tillmar -- Narratives of social enterprises : its construction, contradictions and implications in the Swedish debate / Ulrika Levander -- Democratic innovations : exploring synergies between three key post-NPM concepts in public sector reforms / Victor Pestoff -- About the authors -- Index.