Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Models

Anirudh Agrawal is a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and a Visiting Assisting Professor at Bennett University, India. He was previously a full Assistant Professor at Jindal Global University in India. His areas of interest include social entrepreneurship, impact investing and entrepreneurial ecosystems and he has published and presented articles in a number of international journals and conferences.Payal Kumar is a Professor at BML Munjal University, India, and has rich experience in both the higher education and corporate sectors. As well as being the series editor of the five-volume Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership, Payal is also on the editorial board of many international journals.

• Part I. Theoretical Contextualization.- 1. Embedding Diversity in Social Entrepreneurial Research: India’s Learning Laboratories; Shambu Prasad and Joseph Satish V.- 2. Education Conversations: Situating Social Enterprise in India’s Education Discourse; Isabel Salovaara.- 3. Foremost Motivational Factors to Become a Social Entrepreneur; Preeti Tiwari and Anil K. Bhat.- 4. Why Worry about Your Impact? Rationale, Challenges, and Support for Indian Social Enterprises’ Impact Measurement; Anar Bhatt.- Part II. Sustainable Business Models and Impact Investing.- 5. Towards a Better Understanding of Business Models of Social Enterprise in an Uncertain Institutional Environment; Deepika Verma and Runa Sarkar.- 6. Circular Social Innovation: A New Paradigm for India’s Sustainable Development; Ashok Prasad and Mathew J Manimala.- 7. Social Entrepreneurship through Micro Entrepreneurs of Self Help Groups; Sangita Dutta Gupta & Susmita Chatterjee.- 8. Stimulated Innovation Cycle to Serve the Poor: A Case of Mann Deshi Mahila Group; Balram Bhushan.- 9. Effectiveness of Impact Investing at the Bottom of the Pyramid; Anirudh Agrawal.