Publications

CASE periodically produces and makes available conceptual notes and case studies for use by practitioners and in the classroom. CASE has also developed a working paper series to help faculty circulate pre-publication drafts and to share with a broader audience current work by CASE faculty and researchers. Some working papers are available for download directly from this site. Beyond individual use, please do not reproduce or distribute any of these publications without permission of the author(s), which can be obtained by contacting CASE.

Conceptual Notes

The Process of Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Opportunities Worthy of Serious Pursuit (Guclu, Dees, and Anderson), November 2002.

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Case Studies

Futures for Kids (F4K), October 2002

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Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU), February 2004

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YouthBuild USA, February 2004

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Download Appendix A: The Core YouthBuild Model
Download Appendix B: Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 Subtitle D--Hope for Youth: YouthBuild
Download Appendix C: The YouthBuild Organization as of 2002


Working Paper Series

No. 1 – Sector-Bending: Blurring the Lines Between Nonprofit and For-Profit (Dees and Anderson), March 2002.
Published in the Society Journal, Volume 40, Number 4, May/June 2003.

No. 2 – For-Profit Social Ventures
(Dees and Anderson), June 2002.
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Published in International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (IJEE)
Volume 2 Special Issue - Social Entrepreneurship. Available for purchase at IJEE.

No. 3 – Pathways to Social Impact: Strategies for Scaling Out Successful Social Innovations (Dees, Anderson, and Wei-Skillern), August 2002.
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*A revised version of this paper was published as “Scaling Social Impact” in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Volume 1, Number 4, Spring 2004

No. 4 – Nonprofit Geographic Expansion: Branches, Affiliates, or Both? (Wei-Skillern and Anderson), September 2003.
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No. 5 - Access, Common Agency, and Board Size (Aggarwal and Nanda), January 2004
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No. 6 - An Empirical Examination of the Complex Relationships Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Stakeholder Support (Voss, Voss, and Moorman), July 2004
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