Market Solutions for Social Change

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This book compiles compelling case studies of businesses from a competition organized by Social Business Creation, an initiative at HEC Montréal in Canada that uses gamification to impart knowledge about social entrepreneurship. Curated by two esteemed academics, these narratives reveal strategies, mechanisms, and impact in addressing pressing social issues.

Each study showcases entrepreneurship in action, highlighting how businesses effectively leverage market forces to drive positive social change. Across sectors and geographies, they offer insights into innovating business models, scaling impact, and fostering social innovation. Each case study vividly portrays entrepreneurship in action, effectively demonstrating how the business sector can harness market mechanisms to propel positive social impact. These narratives span diverse sectors and geographical locations, offering invaluable insights into social innovation generation, the implementation and scaling of innovative business models, and the acceleration of social impact.

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Mai Thi Thanh Thai

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“Strategic engagements are complex affairs, and few scholars are patient enough to follow the chains of interactions among many players across various arenas, settling instead for broad correlations among crude variables. Imrat Verhoeven offers a beautiful exception, comparing three cases in which governments are internally at odds, with various government subplayers sometimes opposing and sometimes aligning with protestors, businesses, and other players. A fascinating study of how governance actually works.” (James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest)

“Understanding contentious governance through an interpretive lens is much needed today. Conflict in politics is not merely about strategy—it’s about meaning, emotion, and the interpretation of the two. This book compellingly shows how contention is integral to politics itself. By connecting the study of emotion, policy processes, and interpretive analysis, Imrat Verhoeven offers a nuanced and timely contribution to the fields of public policy analysis, social movement studies and political sociology. A must-read for anyone seeking to grasp how controversy shapes governance in practice.” (Anna Durnova, University of Vienna, Austria)

“Combining governance theory and social movement theory in an intriguing and useful way, Imrat Verhoeven develops the concept of “contentious governance” as a lens for understanding policy outcomes. What I find immensely valuable about this analytical lens is the way that it reveals the evolving tactics of (supra)national and subnational governments and activist groups as they struggle to frame and set policy. Through a rich analysis of contentious governance in three Dutch energy and climate policy cases, Verhoeven demonstrates the value of this perspective to illuminate the bare-knuckle political dynamics of policymaking. One of the key insights of the book is to show how subnational governments and activists form contingent alliances; another is to show how subnational governments tend to coopt, rather than break or respect, the rules imposed by national or supranational governments.” (Christopher Ansell, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

“This book is an excellent read, with conceptual innovations and in-depth case materials. It convincingly puts contentious governance on the agenda of the policy sciences. Imrat Verhoeven meticulously unpacks the taken for granted division between (local) governments and activists. He demonstrates that through their hearts (emotions and meaning) and minds (strategy and tactics) decision making by national governments may be further democratized.” (Tamara Metze, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

“In Contentious Governance, Imrat Verhoeven offers a lens that is both distinct from and complementary to the approaches many of us currently use to understand, broadly speaking, puzzles of policy collaboration and conflict. This lens emphasizes the interrelationships between (supra)national players, including businesses, and subnational players in situations involving policy initiation and implementation. It draws insights from three Dutch cases on energy and climate policy, each approached through multiple data sources and an inclusive scientific orientation. The book ends with nine propositions that provide a foundation for extending, and in a sense assessing, the applicability of its ideas in other settings. For anyone interested in conflictual interactions across levels of government, tactics, framing, strategy, and the central role of emotions in politics, this book will be richly rewarding for the insight it offers into how political differences play out in the context of (supra)national threats.” (Chris Weible, University of Colorado Denver, USA)

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