Chapter 1: Introduction -- Social Exclusion -- Social Inclusion -- Social Entrepreneurship -- How Do They Relate To Each Other? -- Research Background -- Methodology -- Data Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Social Entrepreneurship, Community Participation, and Embeddedness -- Community Participation -- Social Capital and Geographical Dimensions -- Critical Approach to Community Participation -- Embeddedness and Social Entrepreneurship -- References -- Chapter 3: Barefoot College: Philosophy and Governance -- Barefoot College -- Origin of the Concept -- History of the College -- During Transition -- Post-transition -- The Working of the Social Enterprise -- How Employment Is Offered -- Community Participation -- Second Level Social Entrepreneurs -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Barefoot Approach and Its Practice -- The Work Style -- Solar Technologies -- Education -- Rain Water Harvesting -- Communication and Crafts -- Women Empowerment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Implications of the Barefoot Approach on the Rural Poor -- Who Do They Train and Employ? -- Recruiting Night School Students as Employees -- The Physically Challenged -- Other Adverse Circumstances -- Financial Background of the Respondents -- How Is the Training? -- Transformation Towards Inclusion -- Promotion of Social Equity -- The Salary Structure -- Financial Inclusion -- Social Capital -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Barefoot as a Social Enterprise -- Sources Within India -- Foreign Sources -- Sustainable Sources -- Organisational Pillar -- Opportunities -- Mission and Vision -- Ideology -- Unorthodox -- Dreamers -- Non-negotiability -- Innovation -- Resourcefulness -- Pioneer -- Risk-Taking -- Unlearning -- Learning by Doing -- Social Value Pillar.

Employment -- Capacity Building -- Triple Bottom Line -- System Change -- Scalability -- Cultural Change -- Sustainable Pillar -- Survival -- Self-Sufficiency -- Local Resources -- Sustainable Value -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Social Entrepreneurship and Community Participation -- Embeddedness and Social Entrepreneurship -- Social Exclusion, Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion -- Unique Organisational Existence -- Existing Gaps in Practice and Suggestions for Improvements -- References -- Index.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion. It uncovers the role of local knowledge and grassroots level innovations to create necessary environment for the positive social change to roll. Social enterprises have proven to reduce drudgery of poor and excluded by offering creative and innovative solutions for long standing social problems. The grassroots level creative problem solving mechanisms they initiate travel through a variety of local dynamics and cultural contexts. However, social innovations quite often do not achieve their intended results, especially when they fail to understand the local contexts and embed themselves in such dynamism. In this background, the book attempts to understand and analyse the 'connect' between the social innovations and local dynamism. It argues that the community-driven innovation management which is based on local knowledge inspires the social entrepreneurial process and builds capacities and infrastructure to foster social inclusion. Each chapter in this book offers development scholars rich narration about how social problems have been approached, addressed, and altered through rich insights from communities and the social entrepreneurial teams.

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