David M. Wasieleski is the Albert Paul Viragh Professor of Business Ethics at Duquesne University and Affiliate Research Professor at the ICN Business School in Nancy, France. He is currently the Executive Director of the Albert P. Viragh Institute for Ethics in Business at Duquesne.James Weber is the Rev. Martin Hehir, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Scholarly Excellence and is the Managing Director of the Albert P. Viragh Institute of Ethics in Business at Duquesne University. He received the Sumner Marcus Award for outstanding contribution of service to the field in 2013 from the Academy of Management’s SIM Division.

This year’s Business and Society 360 book series by Drs. Wasieleski and Weber are very timely. Their focus on social entrepreneurship is needed now more than ever. Not only is there a growing gap between the rich and the poor, but also the middle class continues to shrink. Traditional business models aren’t effectively addressing these complex problems. In far too many instances they are making them worse. Successful social entrepreneurship models and paradigms can help bridge those gaps.

• Preface; Sophie Bacq, David M. Wasieleski, and Jim WeberChapter 1. Generating Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge: International Research Collaboration on a Hemispheric Level; James Austin, Gabriel Berger, Rosa Amelia González, Roberto Gutierrez, Ivan D. Lobo, and Alfred Vernis Chapter 2. Social Venture Scaling in Distressed Communities; Peter T. Gianiodis, Malcolm Muhammed, and Wendy Chen Chapter 3. Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management: Negotiating Institutional Complexity; Michelle Ouimette, Imran Chowdhury, and Jill Kickul Chapter 4. Addressing the Interlinkages of Persistent Social Problems: Food for Change as Social Entrepreneurship; Douglas A. Schuler, Reginald Young, Asiya K. Kazi, and Jeffrey de Groot Chapter 5. Community-Based Social Enterprises and Social Innovation: The Case of Women’s Cooperatives in Turkey; Burcin Kalabay Hatipoglu Chapter 6. The Impact of the Hybridization Movement on Organizations and Society; Tasneem Sadiq, Karen Maas, and Rob van Tulder Chapter 7. Scaling Social Impact: What Challenges and Opportunities await Social Entrepreneurs; Philippe Eiselein and Nikolay A. Dentchev Chapter 8. Social Entrepreneurial Teams: A Research Agenda; Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and Frédéric Dufays Chapter 9. Obstacles to Social Entrepreneurship; Josefina L. Murillo-Luna, Esperanza García-Uceda, and Jesús Asín-Lafuente Chapter 10. Social entrepreneurship as “Acts of Solidarity” in Disasters; Saheli Nath Chapter 11. Helper Networks and Crowdfunding: Mobilizing Social Entrepreneurship; Paulami Mitra, Jill Kickul, and Colleen Robb

David M. Wasieleski is the Albert Paul Viragh Professor of Business Ethics at Duquesne University and Affiliate Research Professor at the ICN Business School in Nancy, France. He is currently the Executive Director of the Albert P. Viragh Institute for Ethics in Business at Duquesne.James Weber is the Rev. Martin Hehir, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Scholarly Excellence and is the Managing Director of the Albert P. Viragh Institute of Ethics in Business at Duquesne University. He received the Sumner Marcus Award for outstanding contribution of service to the field in 2013 from the Academy of Management’s SIM Division.

This year’s Business and Society 360 book series by Drs. Wasieleski and Weber are very timely. Their focus on social entrepreneurship is needed now more than ever. Not only is there a growing gap between the rich and the poor, but also the middle class continues to shrink. Traditional business models aren’t effectively addressing these complex problems. In far too many instances they are making them worse. Successful social entrepreneurship models and paradigms can help bridge those gaps.

• Preface; Sophie Bacq, David M. Wasieleski, and Jim WeberChapter 1. Generating Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge: International Research Collaboration on a Hemispheric Level; James Austin, Gabriel Berger, Rosa Amelia González, Roberto Gutierrez, Ivan D. Lobo, and Alfred Vernis Chapter 2. Social Venture Scaling in Distressed Communities; Peter T. Gianiodis, Malcolm Muhammed, and Wendy Chen Chapter 3. Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management: Negotiating Institutional Complexity; Michelle Ouimette, Imran Chowdhury, and Jill Kickul Chapter 4. Addressing the Interlinkages of Persistent Social Problems: Food for Change as Social Entrepreneurship; Douglas A. Schuler, Reginald Young, Asiya K. Kazi, and Jeffrey de Groot Chapter 5. Community-Based Social Enterprises and Social Innovation: The Case of Women’s Cooperatives in Turkey; Burcin Kalabay Hatipoglu Chapter 6. The Impact of the Hybridization Movement on Organizations and Society; Tasneem Sadiq, Karen Maas, and Rob van Tulder Chapter 7. Scaling Social Impact: What Challenges and Opportunities await Social Entrepreneurs; Philippe Eiselein and Nikolay A. Dentchev Chapter 8. Social Entrepreneurial Teams: A Research Agenda; Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and Frédéric Dufays Chapter 9. Obstacles to Social Entrepreneurship; Josefina L. Murillo-Luna, Esperanza García-Uceda, and Jesús Asín-Lafuente Chapter 10. Social entrepreneurship as “Acts of Solidarity” in Disasters; Saheli Nath Chapter 11. Helper Networks and Crowdfunding: Mobilizing Social Entrepreneurship; Paulami Mitra, Jill Kickul, and Colleen Robb