Social Innovation Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this bookis organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance and finally sustainability and the environment.

Alex Nicholls is the first tenured lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; social investment; and Fair Trade. Nicholls has published more than forty peer-reviewed academic papers, chapters and articles on social entrepreneurship and innovation, including several in Financial Times Top 30 journals. He has also published five books including the best-selling and most cited scholarly books on social entrepreneurship and Fair Trade. His 2009 paper on social investment won the Best Paper Award (Entrepreneurship) at the British Academy of Management. In 2010, Nicholls edited a special edition of Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice on social entrepreneurship - the first time a top-tier management journal had recognized the topic in this way. He is the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers series and the editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Alex Murdock is Professor of Not for Profit Management and Leadership and Head of the Centre for Government and Charity Management at London South Bank University, UK. The Centre is part of the Social Enterprise Cluster of the Third Sector Research Centre (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK). His research focuses on the intersection of the public, private and third sectors and he is actively involved in charities and social enterprises as a trustee and board member. Professor Murdock has worked at The University of Paris (Sorbonne), France, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Brunei University, UK, and is Visiting Professor at two Norwegian universities. He has degrees from the University of London, University of Maryland, USA, and London Business School, UK. Prior to this he qualified as a probation officer at the University of Newcastle and worked in social work for 11 years.