International Perspectives on Value Creation and Sustainability Through Social Entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship is construed an innovative activity that addresses or mitigates social issues based on self-sufficiency and financial stability. It offers the potential to shift civil society through innovative social ventures that pursue profit and purpose. It is gaining international attention due to the intent of social entrepreneurs to change and to see the world as it can be, not as it is. These changemakers blend lessons from business with the diversity and complexity of social values and in the process pursue opportunities for change.

International Perspectives on Value Creation and Sustainability Through Social Entrepreneurship explores various issues and ideas about social entrepreneurship through the lens of theoretical, practical, and empirical research. It provides an international outlook of social entrepreneurship, focusing primarily on value creation and sustainability. Covering topics such as entrepreneurship education, post-COVID perspectives, and private wealth, this premier reference source is an essential resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders, managers, government officials, policymakers, libraries, students and faculty of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

About the author

Hesham Magd has more than twenty-five years of combined experience in traditional and nontraditional higher education teaching, training, consultancy, community development, academic administration, curricula design, organizational change and development, distinguished research and scholarly writing, resulting in Honors, awards and recognition for academic excellence and outstanding achievement. Hesham is currently heavily involved in International accreditation and reshaping the aviation education in Oman and offer strategic direction on the direction of the sector In his previous appointments throughout the world in British, European, and American oriented Curriculum (Middle East, USA, and UK), he has been the driving force behind strategic institutional development during the time of profound change in the Higher Education in the Middle East. Hesham has broad knowledge of the UK, USA, Middle East University Systems, and Quality and accreditation systems (AACSB, AABI, OAAA, NCAAA…).

Dharmendra Singh is an Associate Professor and program head (Finance) at Modern College of Business and Science, Muscat (Oman). He possesses rich professional experience of over 23 years in the field of finance. He holds a Ph.D. (Finance), professional certifications like Certified Financial Planner (CFP), an associate diploma (life insurance) from the Insurance Institute of India, and a CFA from ICFAI. He has published several articles & research papers in ABDC, CABS, and Scopus Q1-ranked international and refereed journals. He has published five edited books with renowned publishers. His research areas include banking, corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and financial markets. He has delivered training programs in association with CMA, Oman. He also serves as a reviewer for high rank journals. He is a member of the Financial Planning Standard Board (FPSB), the Indian Econometric Society, and the Insurance Institute of India.

Raihan Taqui Syed is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Management, University of Bradford, UK. Also, he is the Founding Director – the Center for Entrepreneurship & Business Incubation (CEBI) and Program Head – Management, Faculty of Business and Science at Modern College of Business & Science (MCBS), Muscat, Oman.

David Spicer is an Associate Professor at School of Management, University of Bradford, UK. Also, he is the University Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Champion, and Director of Business & Community Engagement. [Editor]

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