The interest of academics in notions of social and sustainable entrepreneurship has grown massively over recent years in management studies (Neck et al., 2009; Nicholls, 2010). Theories and empirical studies have gradually evolved and remarkable insights have been made to build "social entrepreneurship as a legitimate extension of the main stream concept of entrepreneurship" (p. xii). The book Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2011) by Jerome A. Katz and G.T Lumpkin (Eds.), the 13th volume of the series "Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth", claims successfully this legitimate extension providing an excellent overview of the state of art and current research questions in the field of social and sustainable entrepreneurship. It constitutes a step forward to overcome what has been named by Nicholls(2010, p. 611) the "pre‐paradigmatic" stage of this research area. For that purpose, the book combines theoretical, empirical and case studies over its ten chapters, written by leading researchers from a diverse set of perspectives, thereby enriching our understanding and implications of social and sustainable entrepreneurship.
