• The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship This 1998 article by J. Gregory Dees, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, attempts to define what makes a social entrepreneur.
• A Developed World: An online social publication featuring the stories of social entrepreneurs from around the world.
• Can the World Change? Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
• Social Enterprise: A Financial Perspective: An alternative view on social enterprise which incorporate the agency theory and other analysis.
• The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World: John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan describe how innovations by social entrepreneurs are addressing a variety of social, economic and environmental problems.
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas: David Bornstein profiles nine leading social entrepreneurs.
• For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, PM Press, by John Curl, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60486-072-6