In new chapter for “The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook”, Johanna Mair shares a comparative analysis of social enterprises.
As social enterprises become increasingly important in public policy discussion, Hertie School Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership Johanna Mair offers a comparative analysis of more than 1000 social enterprises from nine different countries. The results of her research are now published in the third edition of “The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook” by Stanford University Press. The book, which was edited by Woody Powell and Patricia Bromley, is widely regarded as an important reference when it comes to research in this particular sector.
For her chapter “Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration”, Mair worked together with the London School of Economics as well as the Stockholm School of Economics. Alongside the Hertie School, the Stockholm School of Economics is a part of CIVICA, an alliance of seven leading European universities that aims to generate innovative social science solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges and that promotes European civic values. The London School of Economics is an affiliate partner of the alliance. Mair plans to further collaborate with CIVICA partners in this ongoing research on social enterprises.
Featuring a broad and multidisciplinary range of leading researchers, “The Nonprofit Sector” offers empirical and theoretical assessments on the fundamental ways the nonprofit sector has changed in recent years and its impact in the future.
The Hertie School is represented with three chapters in the book. In addition to Mair, both Helmut Anheier, Hertie School Professor of Sociology, and Theodore Lechterman, Visiting Scholar at the Hertie School, contributed one chapter each.
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Watch a video of Johanna speaking about the research here.