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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: Continuations and Beginnings
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-4
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
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Author-Name: T. L. Hill
Author-X-Name-First: T. L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill
Author-Name: Tanvi H. Kothari
Author-X-Name-First: Tanvi H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kothari
Author-Name: Matthew Shea
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Shea
Title: Patterns of Meaning in the Social Entrepreneurship Literature: A Research Platform
Abstract:
Abstract We offer an inductive meta-analysis of the social
entrepreneurship literature. Methodologically, we illustrate the
usefulness of network and semantic network analysis in identifying and
interpreting the concepts that provide coherence to a largely conceptual
and analytic scholarly literature, or indeed any set of texts. The result
of this rigorous approach is an orderly mapping of a conceptual framework
for understanding social entrepreneurship, including unifying themes,
areas of contention and promising avenues for future research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 5-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420670903442079
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Author-Name: Jacques Defourny
Author-X-Name-First: Jacques
Author-X-Name-Last: Defourny
Author-Name: Marthe Nyssens
Author-X-Name-First: Marthe
Author-X-Name-Last: Nyssens
Title: Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Convergences and Divergences
Abstract:
Abstract The concepts of social enterprise and social
entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the
United States. Until recently, the debates on both sides of the Atlantic
have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them.
In the first part of the paper, we describe the European and US historical
landscapes in which those concepts took root. In the second part, we
analyse how the various conceptualizations have evolved. This analysis
paves the way for the third part, in which we highlight the conceptual
convergences and divergences among regions as well as within the US and
European landscapes.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 32-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420670903442053
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Author-Name: David Urbano
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Urbano
Author-Name: Nuria Toledano
Author-X-Name-First: Nuria
Author-X-Name-Last: Toledano
Author-Name: Domingo Ribeiro Soriano
Author-X-Name-First: Domingo Ribeiro
Author-X-Name-Last: Soriano
Title: Analyzing Social Entrepreneurship from an Institutional Perspective: Evidence from Spain
Abstract:
Abstract In recent years, social entrepreneurship (SE) has
been regarded as an important source of social, economic and environmental
wealth, and many scholars are focusing their inquiries on this emerging
area. Little is known, however, concerning the environmental factors that
affect this entrepreneurial phenomenon. In this research, we analyze how
these factors affect both the emergence and implementation of SE in the
highly entrepreneurial Spanish region of Catalonia, using institutional
economics as the main conceptual framework. We also apply an inductive
theory, building an empirical approach to conducting a multiple-case study
in order to develop theoretical propositions that enhance our
understanding of the phenomenon.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 54-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420670903442061
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities
Abstract:
Abstract Across the world, a new landscape of social
investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10--15 years, yet
there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date. This paper
aims to address this important gap in social entrepreneurship research
with new empirical and theoretical work. Theoretically, the paper takes an
interpretive approach drawing on institutional theory and other work on
the sociology of markets to conceptualize social investment as a socially
constructed space within which different investment logics and investor
rationalities are currently in play. Using a Weberian analytic lens this
paper identifies two ideal type investor rationalities
(zweckrational; wertrational) that drive
different institutional forms of social investment but also suggests that
a third -- systemic -- rationality can be discerned
that combines aspects of both in practice. This analysis suggests a
three-part typology of social investment organized according to investor
rationality that, in turn, generates a Social Investment Matrix consisting
of nine distinct models. Empirically, this paper presents -- for
the first time -- an attempt to quantify the flows of capital
within the inchoate social investment landscape. The paper concludes by
setting out three possible future scenarios for social investment each
representing the ultimate dominance of a singular investor rationality.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 70-100
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420671003701257
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Author-Name: Jeffrey Goldstein
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Goldstein
Author-Name: James K. Hazy
Author-X-Name-First: James K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hazy
Author-Name: Joyce Silberstang
Author-X-Name-First: Joyce
Author-X-Name-Last: Silberstang
Title: A Complexity Science Model of Social Innovation in Social Enterprise
Abstract:
Abstract A complexity science-based model for social
innovation in social enterprises is presented. The three components of the
model include: (1) representing the evolution of social innovation using
nonlinear dynamical systems with accompanying parameters and attractors;
(2) a cusp catastrophe model of bifurcation or the emergence of a new
attractor; (3) the role of emergence in complex systems utilizing
recombinatory operations. The model represents the emergence of social
innovation as an evolving dynamical system governed by the interaction of
two parameters. The first parameter is opportunity tension or the degree
of coordination and organization on a collective level required to resolve
social problems or take advantage of social opportunities. The second is
informational differences having to do with the accessibility of
information via social networks connecting key players in the social
system under consideration. The informational differences parameter also
refers to experiments in social novelty acting as seeds of the emergent
social innovations. Since social innovation is understood as the emergence
of a new attractor reflecting the social innovations, the new attractor is
shown to replace an originary attractor representing inadequate
‘business as usual’ practices and social networks that have
not been able to resolve the social problem or take advantage of the
opportunity. At a critical threshold, the social system undergoes
bifurcation as extant social components are recombined leading to the
generation of novel social forms that can more sufficiently resolve the
social problem or take advantage of the opportunity.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 101-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420671003629763
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Author-Name: Paul N. Bloom
Author-X-Name-First: Paul N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bloom
Author-Name: Brett R. Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Brett R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Identifying the Drivers of Social Entrepreneurial Impact: Theoretical Development and an Exploratory Empirical Test of SCALERS
Abstract:
Abstract The scaling of social entrepreneurial impact is
an important issue in the field of social entrepreneurship. While
researchers have focused relatively little theoretical and empirical
attention on scaling, a recently proposed set of drivers of
scaling -- incorporated into what has been labeled the SCALERS
model -- may provide guidance for new theoretical and empirical
work on scaling of social impact. In this study, prior work on the drivers
of scaling is extended by adding to the theoretical foundations upon which
the SCALERS model is developed and by providing an initial empirical test
of the SCALERS model. Initial empirical support is found for the SCALERS
model of scaling social entrepreneurial impact.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 126-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420670903458042
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Author-Name: Jonathan Michie
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Michie
Author-Name: David T. Llewellyn
Author-X-Name-First: David T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Llewellyn
Title: Converting Failed Financial Institutions into Mutual Organisations
Abstract:
Abstract There are three reasons for promoting mutual
building societies: they are less prone than banks to pursue risky
speculative activity; a mixed system produces a more stable financial
sector; and a stronger mutual sector enhances competition within the
financial system. The banking crisis highlighted the importance of
retaining diverse models of financial service providers, and while mutuals
were affected by the recession, they were not themselves responsible for
causing the recession, as were private banks. The UK Government needs to
secure a financial return for the failed financial institutions it
nationalised and a low level of overall economic risk for the taxpayer.
Given a trade-off, the long-run benefits of financial sustainability and
reduced risk, plus enhanced competition, need to be given proper weighting
compared with any short run gain through a trade sale and the repayment of
the government's support. This paper focuses on the case of Northern Rock
as the most suitable candidate for remutualisation, and whose disposal is
under current consideration, but the analysis applies more widely.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 146-170
Issue: 1
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420671003629789
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: Turn! Turn! Turn!
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 171-173
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.521649
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Author-Name: Alessandro Fedele
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Fedele
Author-Name: Raffaele Miniaci
Author-X-Name-First: Raffaele
Author-X-Name-Last: Miniaci
Title: Do Social Enterprises Finance Their Investments Differently from For-profit Firms? The Case of Social Residential Services in Italy
Abstract:
Abstract We develop a theoretical framework, based on a
moneylender--firm relationship with moral hazard, to investigate whether
enterprise capital structure differs between for-profit and nonprofit
sectors. The nondistribution constraint of the nonprofit organizations
increases the fraction of own capital on total investment: according to
our theoretical predictions, this reduces leverage, defined as the amount
borrowed over the total investment. By contrast, the intrinsically high
commitment of nonprofit entrepreneurs weakens the moral hazard problem:
this augments leverage. We then analyze a longitudinal data set of balance
sheets of 504 firms operating in the social residential sector in Italy.
Our empirical analysis shows that once controlled for observable
characteristics, for-profit companies have a leverage 6% higher than
nonprofit enterprises, even if the latter face lower credit costs. We
explain this finding by arguing that the effect of the nondistribution
constraint prevails over the effect of the social entrepreneurs' intrinsic
motivation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 174-189
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511812
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Author-Name: Peter Svensson
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Svensson
Author-Name: Lars Bengtsson
Author-X-Name-First: Lars
Author-X-Name-Last: Bengtsson
Title: Users' Influence in Social-service Innovations: Two Swedish Case Studies
Abstract:
Abstract This article uses case studies to address the
sources of social innovation, a major contributor to economic growth and
welfare services. Following the findings of user-innovation research in
the commercial sector, the authors found that social-problem users
innovate new social services for solving specific social problems. They
also found that superior problem and solution knowledge is one reason for
their ability to do this, that their legitimacy with other potential users
is an important factor for their innovations' diffusion and that the
legitimacy of the new social services' operators with other stakeholders
is important for acquiring resources for their projects. This contributes
to the understanding of the management of social innovation using the
established theoretical framework of user innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 190-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511813
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Author-Name: Ulrika Levander
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrika
Author-X-Name-Last: Levander
Title: Social Enterprise: Implications of Emerging Institutionalized Constructions
Abstract:
Abstract In contemporary discourse social enterprise is
often described as a new and innovative phenomenon aiming to solve current
challenges of the welfare state. However, social enterprise can also be
seen as a complex set of discourses within an institutionally constructed
narrative designed to build identity and gain legitimacy. Using
theoretical frameworks from neo-institutionalism in a critical discourse
analysis the concept of social enterprise is here analyzed discursively
both at a policy level and at the practitioner's level in contemporary
Scandinavian discourse. Whilst the latter discourses conceptualize social
enterprise as a method to empower marginalized individuals or
disadvantaged groups, the findings show that the discourses outlined at a
policy level primarily talk of social enterprise as being a solution to
structural issues across society. Policy discourses suggest that focal
actors within social enterprises are supposed to change and to be
disciplined in order to address their social difficulties, rather than to
be empowered. This paper suggests that the discourses around social
enterprise not only embody solutions to social ills, but may also exert an
influence over the governance of social enterprises and over their work.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 213-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511815
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Author-Name: Chris Steyaert
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Steyaert
Author-Name: Pascal Dey
Author-X-Name-First: Pascal
Author-X-Name-Last: Dey
Title: Nine Verbs to Keep the Social Entrepreneurship Research Agenda ‘Dangerous’
Abstract:
Abstract This paper critiques and re-imagines current
research approaches to the field of social entrepreneurship. Taking a
theoretical view of research as ‘enactment’, this paper
explores research as a constitutive act and explores a range of ways of
relating with and constructing the subject of inquiry. Three models of
enactive research are presented, each based on three verbs which denote
the contours of a ‘dangerous’ research agenda for social
entrepreneurship. These include: (a) ‘critiquing’ approaches
to research through denaturalizing, critically performing and reflexivity;
(b) ‘inheriting’ approaches through contextualizing,
historicizing and connecting; and (c) ‘intervening’
approaches through participating, spatializing and minorizing.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 231-254
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511817
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Author-Name: Rafael Ziegler
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziegler
Title: Innovations in Doing and Being: Capability Innovations at the Intersection of Schumpeterian Political Economy and Human Development
Abstract:
Abstract This paper seeks to contribute to a conceptual
perspective with which to approach the evaluations and
explanation of social entrepreneurs as agents of social change. First, it
discusses the capability approach as a comprehensive normative framework
with which to articulate ‘the social’ in a way that deals
with the triple challenge of specifying ‘the social’ in a
context of conflicts of interests, value diversity and exclusive public
spheres. Second, the paper proposes two explanatory hypotheses of
innovation for social change: (a) social innovation as the carrying out of
new combinations of capabilities; (b) social entrepreneurs as
characterized by their capacity to imagine and carry out new combinations
of capabilities. The combination of capabilities suggests a subset of
human development where ethics meets innovation: a capability innovation
pathway at the crossroads of long-term, societal perspectives on change
(human development, Schumpeterian economic development) where innovation
is social and capability advancement entrepreneurial.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 255-272
Issue: 2
Volume: 1
Year: 2010
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511818
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: Social Enterprise -- At the Forefront of Rethinking Business?
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-5
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.566764
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Author-Name: Gordon E. Shockley
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shockley
Author-Name: Peter M. Frank
Author-X-Name-First: Peter M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Frank
Title: Schumpeter, Kirzner, and the Field of Social Entrepreneurship
Abstract:
Abstract Joseph Schumpeter's and Israel Kirzner's
‘classical’ theories of entrepreneurship have contributed
much to the field of entrepreneurship but have been underutilized in the
emerging field of social entrepreneurship. The argument of this paper is
that the utilization of Schumpeterian and Kirznerian theories of
entrepreneurship can advance the field of social entrepreneurship in two
ways. The first potential contribution from utilizing their classical
theories is to guide theory-building for social entrepreneurship. In this
paper, a close reading and interpretation of Schumpeter's and Kirzner's
work is undertaken alongside a critique of current theories of social
entrepreneurship. Five essential theoretical components of Schumpeterian
and Kirznerian classical entrepreneurship theories are distilled with
respect to social entrepreneurship theory-building: (1) the distinction
between entrepreneurial thinking and rational models of decision making;
(2) the distinction between entrepreneurship and leadership, capitalism,
and management; (3) the ubiquity of entrepreneurship in all human
endeavors; (4) the causal functionality of entrepreneurship; and (5) the
priority of the process of entrepreneurship over the instrumentality of
the entrepreneur. A research proposition is then constructed on each
essential theoretical component. The research propositions point to
possible research directions for the field of social entrepreneurship,
thus representing the second potential contribution of the paper.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 6-26
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.544924
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Author-Name: Silvia Dorado
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Dorado
Author-Name: Dave Shaffer
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaffer
Title: Governance among Confounding Logics: The Case of DePaul Industries
Abstract:
Abstract This paper explores board decision-making in
social enterprises. It argues that while dominant theoretical frameworks
(agency and stakeholder theories) help to understand the challenges faced
by the boards of social enterprises, they need to be complemented to
account, more adequately, for challenges deriving from the confounding
logics framing valuations of organizational effectiveness in social
enterprises. The paper identifies pace of decision-making as a crucial
variable that requires further research attention and, building on the
literature on group decision and dynamics, it advances several factors
that can frame the expediency (or sluggishness) with which the boards of
social enterprises take decisions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 27-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.555776
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Author-Name: Othmar M. Lehner
Author-X-Name-First: Othmar M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lehner
Title: The Phenomenon of Social Enterprise in Austria: A Triangulated Descriptive Study
Abstract:
Abstract There is little to no existing research on the
phenomenon of social enterprises (SEs) in Austria. To enable subsequent
comparative studies, the author first traces social enterprises'
conceptual underpinnings from most current research found in leading
journals and subsequently creates a framework based upon social origins
theory for use on Austria's social enterprises. In order to validate the
findings, the author employs a triangulated research approach, including
an online-based survey, semi-structured interviews and two panel
discussions. Social enterprises in Austria are characterized through
social activities, organizational types, legal forms, the society sector,
the outcome emphasis, and the strategic development base. The social
entrepreneur him/herself was included as a source for a qualitative
triangulation as well as a distinctive item. Austria's SEs are found to
work in a multitude of fields, are independent, use market-based
approaches, employ improvisation and innovation for the creation of social
good and incorporate a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 53-78
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.555775
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Author-Name: João Cotter Salvado
Author-X-Name-First: João Cotter
Author-X-Name-Last: Salvado
Title: Social Enterprise Models and SPO Financial Sustainability: The Case of BRAC
Abstract:
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to assess whether
social enterprise practices can contribute to solving financial
sustainability problems for social purpose organizations. Using the
illustrative case-study of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
(BRAC), and based on a financial ratio analysis for the years of 2005 and
2009, this paper concludes that a revenue structure based on social
enterprise initiatives, in opposition to donor grants, generates a more
financially sustainable organization.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 79-98
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.560172
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Author-Name: Sanjay Bhowmick
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhowmick
Title: Social Cause Venturing as a Distinct Domain
Abstract:
Abstract Venturing activities focused on social causes has
been called ‘social entrepreneurship’. This paper argues
that the social entrepreneurship literature largely focuses on the
similarities and overlooks the fundamental differences between social and
commercial entrepreneurship, making the former only an extension of the
latter. The paper suggests that the former is better differentiated by a
designation of ‘social cause venturing’ as it elaborates a
point of departure from the present literature. Through a detailed
analysis of a social venturing case, the paper explores some of the
tensions between social cause venturing and traditional entrepreneurship.
It proposes ‘sponsor motive’ as the major discriminating
construct and highlights other differences, such as performance
assessment, between the two fields. The paper argues for social cause
venturing as a distinct domain that is fundamentally different from
entrepreneurship as we know it, and recommends a course correction of the
theory building effort.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 99-111
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: Skin and Bones
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 121-124
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.626612
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Author-Name: Jarrod Ormiston
Author-X-Name-First: Jarrod
Author-X-Name-Last: Ormiston
Author-Name: Richard Seymour
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Seymour
Title: Understanding Value Creation in Social Entrepreneurship: The Importance of Aligning Mission, Strategy and Impact Measurement
Abstract:
Abstract This paper explores and clarifies the
significance of aligning mission, objectives and strategy with impact
measurement in social entrepreneurship. We present a framework for
understanding the value created by social entrepreneurs, presenting
theoretical and practical insights into impact measurement. Drawing on
case studies in Latin America, we suggest the presence of a
‘mission measurement paradox’ that affects social
entrepreneurs in their attempts to measure social impact and understand
value creation. The paradox suggests that social entrepreneurs are failing
to evaluate their social impact with sufficient regard to their social
mission. Preconceptions resulting from the use of traditional management
approaches in social enterprises are presented, with guidance on how these
can be avoided by both researchers and practitioners.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 125-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.606331
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Author-Name: Peter Frumkin
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Frumkin
Author-Name: Elizabeth K. Keating
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Keating
Title: Diversification Reconsidered: The Risks and Rewards of Revenue Concentration
Abstract:
Abstract In the search for sustainability and stability, a
central tenet of social entrepreneurship holds that revenue
diversification is desirable. Business and nonprofit researchers have long
argued that by establishing and maintaining multiple streams of funding,
including some combination of earned income, government contracts,
foundation and corporate grants, and individual contributions,
organizations are able to avoid excessive dependence on any single revenue
source, stabilize their financial positions, and thereby reduce the risk
of financial crises or interruptions in funding. By studying a large
sample of nonprofit organizations in the US, this paper investigates
whether this basic claim about the desirability of revenue diversification
is both correct and complete. Against the dominant trend in the literature
that focuses on the risks of revenue concentration, we find that nonprofit
organizations that have highly concentrated and specialized forms of
revenue actually experience some significant benefits, in the form of
lower administrative and fund-raising expenses. However, these savings are
associated with greater exposure to swings in an organization's financial
position. Based on our study of the broader world of nonprofit
organizations, we conclude that social entrepreneurs likely face a more
complex set of choices about the composition of their revenue than
previous research has suggested.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 151-164
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.614630
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Author-Name: Juan Florin
Author-X-Name-First: Juan
Author-X-Name-Last: Florin
Author-Name: Elizabeth Schmidt
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmidt
Title: Creating Shared Value in the Hybrid Venture Arena: A Business Model Innovation Perspective
Abstract:
Abstract In this paper we develop a strategy process model
for hybrid ventures centered on business model innovation for shared value
creation. We then validate the framework with an empirical focus on L3Cs,
a new breed of hybrid ventures that occupy the middle ground between
nonprofits and for-profits. With this research we contribute to business
model innovation research, we extend established theoretical perspectives
to the social entrepreneurship domain, and contribute to the understanding
and diffusion of best practices when the strategic intent is the
simultaneous creation of public and private wealth.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 165-197
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.614631
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Author-Name: Timothy Curtis
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Curtis
Title: ‘Newness’ in Social Entrepreneurship Discourses: The Concept of ‘Danwei’ in the Chinese Experience
Abstract:
Abstract It has been suggested that the concept of
danwei functions as a key structural element within
Chinese urban society (R. Sévigny, S. Chen, and E.Y. Chen, 2009, Personal
experience of schizophrenia and the role of danwei: a
case study on 1990's Beijing, Cult Med Psychiatry, 33,
86--111). However, the relevance of the danwei to social
entrepreneurship in China has not yet been identified let alone fully
mapped out. Instead, the discourse relating to social entrepreneurship in
China has typically been driven by Anglo-American models of
entrepreneurship that emphasize novelty, whilst marginalizing the more
established traditions of social movements within Chinese society. This
has potentially significant implications for the concept, and project, of
social entrepreneurship in China. In addition, western notions of social
entrepreneurship can be enriched by the consideration of
‘oriental’ categories ofthought. This paper shows how the
concept of social entrepreneurship tends to ‘evolve in its specific
environment’ (J. Defourny and S.-Y. Kim, 2011, Emerging models of
social enterprise in Eastern Asia: a cross-country analysis,
Social enterprise journal, 7 (1), 86--111) and suggests
that the evolution of the discourse and meanings of social
entrepreneurship is rarely politically neutral or uncontested.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 198-217
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.621444
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Author-Name: Samir Patel
Author-X-Name-First: Samir
Author-X-Name-Last: Patel
Author-Name: Khanjan Mehta
Author-X-Name-First: Khanjan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mehta
Title: Life's Principles as a Framework for Designing Successful Social Enterprises
Abstract:
Abstract Biomimicry -- design inspired by
nature -- is an emerging discipline that studies nature's best
ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to address human
problems. The laws of nature are embodied in Life's Principles, a
framework developed by the Biomimicry Institute to inspire, inform, and
benchmark the design of sustainable technology and business systems. The
recent emergence of social enterprise has demonstrated the relevance of a
broader view of business and entrepreneurship, and its power to address
developmental inequities in the world. Social enterprises have challenged
fundamental theories and concepts of design and business, while
reconnecting us with nature's basic design principles and the
multi-dimensionality of the human experience. This paper suggests that
successful social enterprises employ Life's Principles to tackle
structural, management, product design, and supply chain issues in their
conceptualization, development, and scale-up stages.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 218-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.592407
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: ‘The World Turned Upside Down’-super-1
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-5
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.665633
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Author-Name: David Gras
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gras
Author-Name: G. T. Lumpkin
Author-X-Name-First: G. T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumpkin
Title: Strategic Foci in Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis
Abstract:
Abstract We investigate whether the strategies
deemed important by social entrepreneurs contrast with those of commercial
entrepreneurs. We hypothesize that social entrepreneurs value
externally-focused strategies more highly and internally-focused
strategies less compared with commercial entrepreneurs. We test our
hypotheses using cross-sectional time-series analyses on five waves of
Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics II (PSED II) data. In support of
our hypotheses, we find that strategies focused on serving missed
customers, marketing/promotion, and intellectual property are deemed more
important by social entrepreneurs. We further find that strategies focused
on quality products and contemporary/attractive products are deemed more
important by commercial entrepreneurs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 6-23
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.660888
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Author-Name: Margherita Scarlato
Author-X-Name-First: Margherita
Author-X-Name-Last: Scarlato
Title: Social Enterprise and Development Policy: Evidence from Italy
Abstract:
Abstract This paper examines the role of social enterprise
in relation to the specific features of the Italian socio-economic
context. It argues that in this case it is appropriate to discuss the
concept of social enterprise within the theoretical framework of human
development and Amartya Sen's capability approach. The focus is thus an
analysis of the evolution of social enterprises in Italy, and social
co-operatives in particular, in pursuit of two aims. On the one hand, the
study shows the importance of the social economy in the Italian regions
with regard to the welfare system and development policies; on the other,
it outlines both the positive and the disappointing aspects of policies
implemented at central and local level. Finally, the conclusions indicate
both the institutional dynamics that could strengthen social enterprise in
Italy and the potential contribution of these enterprises to the economic
and human development of the poorer southern regions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 24-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.659675
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Author-Name: Stephen Lew
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Lew
Title: The Wikinomics of Saemaul Undong
Abstract:
Abstract Saemaul Undong is an
integrated rural development program (IRDP) that was particularly active
in the 1970s in South Korea. On the one hand, the IRDP literature
generally refers to Saemaul Undong as a collection of
know-hows and actions accumulated through the process of trial-and-error,
i.e., an IRDP that lacks a coherent theoretical framework. On the other
hand, while the social innovation literature considers some initiatives as
being emblematic, great success stories in rural development are rare,
particularly those initiated and led by the state. In this paper, I aim to
interpret Saemaul Undong in a social innovation theoretical
framework, with particular attention to its scaling methods through
hybridization between top-down and bottom-up strategies and through the
usage of key performance indicators (KPIs). In effect, I reinterpret
Saemaul Undong as an ‘open-source rural development
framework,’ drawing parallels with the open-source development
framework, another successful contemporary social innovation paradigm in
the information and communications technology (ICT) context.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 50-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.663784
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Author-Name: Chris Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Title: Isomorphism, Social Enterprise and the Pressure to Maximise Social Benefit
Abstract:
Abstract Social enterprises face extraordinary pressures,
both endogenous and exogenous in nature. In light of the social and
economic upheaval occurring on a global scale, these pressures are more
acute than ever. This paper uses the concept of isomorphism as a starting
point to explore how these organisations respond to pressure to ensure the
conferment and maintenance of legitimacy. In so doing, I propose a
conceptual model that utilises current work in the field and also
redevelops J. Pedersen and F. Dobbin's (2006. In search of identity and
legitimation: bridging organizational culture and neoinstitutionalism.
American behavioral scientist, 49, 897--907) framework to
categorise social enterprise isomorphism. Based on recent experiences in
the United Kingdom, I propose that Government supported social enterprise
initiatives (and the civil society movement in general) might make popular
policy makers but is also fragile in its success. Thus, I use the applied
example of social enterprise governance to illustrate the practical
implications for structural similitude. Limitations to the model and
directions for further empirical research are proposed to encourage
further refinement to, or competing interpretations of, the model.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 74-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.665382
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Author-Name: Whitney McWade
Author-X-Name-First: Whitney
Author-X-Name-Last: McWade
Title: The Role for Social Enterprises and Social Investors in the Development Struggle
Abstract:
Abstract This paper reviews the existing development
literature, arguing that the currently dominant views and proposed
solutions to achieving social and economic development neglect the
possible contributions the private sector, and social enterprises
specifically, can make in attaining the Millennium Development Goals.
Given this latent potential, it will argue that social investors have a
crucial role to play by providing a greater inflow of capital into nascent
and growing social enterprises in developing countries. Drawing on
conclusions from a UK-based study of the social investor, the unique
motivations and expectations of this investor class will be outlined.
Social entrepreneurs in developed and developing country contexts can both
use this information to tailor their business models and plans toward
attracting the financial capital needed to grow to scale and realize the
positive social externalities for which they were established.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 96-112
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.663783
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Author-Name: Michele-Lee Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Michele-Lee
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Author-Name: Frances R. Westley
Author-X-Name-First: Frances R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Westley
Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus-super-1
Abstract:
Abstract Social innovation will be essential for
addressing today's complex social and ecological challenges. Social
entrepreneurs involved in the generation and implementation of innovative
endeavours have repeatedly pointed to the critical need for financial
support. However, mainstream financial institutions and practices have
tended to marginalize both the social entrepreneurs and the individuals
and communities who may benefit the most from a variety of social
innovations, largely due to perceived risks associated with return on
investment. Significant barriers and disincentives exist within current
mainstream economic structures despite a growing interest and willingness
of some individuals and organizations capable of channelling private
capital into innovative social and environmental products or processes.
This article provides a conceptual framework for bridging social
innovation theory and social finance practices in order to develop an
improved understanding of the conditions most conducive to the success of
social finance and social innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 115-132
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.725824
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Author-Name: Nino Antadze
Author-X-Name-First: Nino
Author-X-Name-Last: Antadze
Author-Name: Frances R. Westley
Author-X-Name-First: Frances R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Westley
Title: Impact Metrics for Social Innovation: Barriers or Bridges to Radical Change?
Abstract:
Abstract Addressing society's complex problems means
fundamentally challenging systems and their economic, social and
environmental dimensions. Current measurement tools and evaluation
approaches are grounded in conventional accounting practices, and thus
tend to a focus on the outcomes of products and services, mainly
evaluating economic performance. This presents a particular challenge when
it comes to evaluating the impacts of social innovation, which have
intended effects beyond economic and financial. This paper describes
conventional measurement tools and their limitations for evaluating social
impact, and proposes that developmental evaluation is more suited to
evaluating social innovation. The consequences of not developing new
metrics for social innovation are discussed in terms of the disadvantages
for decision-making.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 133-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.726005
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Author-Name: Sean Geobey
Author-X-Name-First: Sean
Author-X-Name-Last: Geobey
Author-Name: Frances R. Westley
Author-X-Name-First: Frances R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Westley
Author-Name: Olaf Weber
Author-X-Name-First: Olaf
Author-X-Name-Last: Weber
Title: Enabling Social Innovation through Developmental Social Finance
Abstract:
Abstract This paper explores social finance as a strategy
for generating social innovations and, at the same time, financial
returns. It explores why risk assessment for social finance is so
challenging and suggests three sources of difficulty: setting boundaries,
integrating heterogeneous values, and responding with sufficient speed and
flexibility to support innovation. It suggests links between the seemingly
distinct challenges of social finance being able to maximize its impact at
different stages of the innovation process in a complex socio-ecological
system, whilst also acting as a reframing agent in terms of the
understanding of the system itself at other stages. Finally, this paper
develops a new concept ‘developmental impact investing’ as a
modified version of a portfolio strategy that uses a range of projects
both to manage risk and to generate new knowledge about the complex
systems in which the social finance attempts to create impact and
innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 151-165
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.726006
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Author-Name: Ola Tjornbo
Author-X-Name-First: Ola
Author-X-Name-Last: Tjornbo
Author-Name: Frances R. Westley
Author-X-Name-First: Frances R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Westley
Title: Game Changers: The Big Green Challenge and the Role of Challenge Grants in Social Innovation
Abstract:
Abstract A key challenge for governments faced with
increasingly limited financial resources lies in finding new ways of
partnering with the not-for-profit sector to deliver innovative solutions
to intractable social problems. This allows government to tap into
previously inaccessible resources contained in local communities, and to
harness them to produce social goods. However, it also requires that
government take on a new role as a facilitator of social innovation rather
than a direct actor, which poses a challenge for both theorists and
practitioners. This paper is based on a qualitative investigation of the
Big Green Challenge, a competition designed to stimulate community groups
to generate programs to tackle climate change in their localities. It
examines the role that similar challenge grants and competitions might
play in stimulating social innovation and asks questions about how
government can help innovations to scale up and out.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 166-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.726007
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Author-Name: Michele-Lee Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Michele-Lee
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Author-Name: Frances R. Westley
Author-X-Name-First: Frances R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Westley
Author-Name: Tim Brodhead
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Brodhead
Title: Social Finance Intermediaries and Social Innovation
Abstract:
Abstract This paper uses the social transitions framework
to explore the ways in which foundations may partner with intermediaries
to support social innovation for broad system change. It examines the
efforts of a Canadian foundation to incorporate partnerships with
intermediary organizations into its philanthropic investment strategy
aimed at generating social innovation at three successive scales. The
results demonstrate different patterns in the social innovation processes
and in the foundation-intermediary relationships at each scale. These
differences are explained by altered degrees of coordination and
opportunities for learning, and by the types of intermediary organizations
engaged at each scale. The most successful social innovation processes
occurred when intermediaries had their own internal resources and when the
initiative focused on transforming macro scale elements. As philanthropic
funding becomes an important source of support for social innovation,
these lessons are critical for those interested in ensuring that social
investments build the capacity to respond effectively to societal
challenges.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 184-205
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.726020
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Author-Name: Stephen Quilley
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Quilley
Title: System Innovation and a New ‘Great Transformation’: Re-embedding Economic Life in the Context of ‘De-Growth’
Abstract:
Abstract The political-economic limits to system
innovation are explored through the Polanyian concepts of disembedding and
the ‘double movement’. The Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) is
examined as an aspect of the ‘counter movement for societal
protection’ and the outcome of selection from a much broader array
of institutional and cultural responses to crisis. With the KWS, the
principles of reciprocity and autarchy (the re-embedding of subsistence
and provisioning activity in a modern Gemeinschaft) give way to the
establishment of new, top-down circuits of redistribution, designed to
facilitate continuing processes of capitalist modernization. Where social
innovation is directed at the broad dynamics of marketization and the
commodification of goods and services, this growth imperative continues to
present an insuperable obstacle to system-level change. But as ecological
capital at the level of the biosphere becomes a critical focus for a new
protective ‘counter-movement’ and ‘degrowth’
becomes the de facto context for social innovation, systemic
transformation becomes more thinkable. Hodgson's ‘evotopia’
is recommended as a heuristic for a provisional, experimental and
incremental exploration of the ‘adjacent possible’.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 206-229
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.725823
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Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gras
Author-Name: G.T. Lumpkin
Author-X-Name-First: G.T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumpkin
Title: Strategic Foci in Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 230-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2012
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.740207
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: It's More Fun To Compute
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-3
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Ross Millar
Author-X-Name-First: Ross
Author-X-Name-Last: Millar
Author-Name: Kelly Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Kelly
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Author-Name: Robin Miller
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Miller
Title: A Story of Strategic Change: Becoming a Social Enterprise in English Health and Social Care
Abstract:
Abstract Reform of the health and social care
sector is increasingly promoting competition and choice of new service
providers to stimulate growth and efficiency. In England, there has been a
growing interest in social enterprise organisations as a more innovative
and responsive alternative for both users and healthcare staff. The
purpose of this article is to analyse how English healthcare staff
responded to a policy initiative that aimed to encourage them to establish
social enterprise organisations. Using a strategic change perspective, it
shows how individuals leading the process made sense of becoming a social
enterprise and communicated this strategic change to internal and external
stakeholders. The article concludes suggesting that the success of
strategic change efforts to establish social enterprise in these contexts
will depend not only on the organisation's ability to implement new
structures and processes but also the ability to convey this new mission
and vision to the wider health and social care system.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 4-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Chris R. Meyer
Author-X-Name-First: Chris R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Meyer
Author-Name: Jeffrey Gauthier
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Gauthier
Title: Navigating Challenging Fitness Landscapes: Social Entrepreneurship and the Competing Dimensions of Sustainability
Abstract:
Abstract This paper uses the concepts of organizational
fitness and fitness landscapes to examine management challenges that arise
from social entrepreneurship efforts. Organizations pursuing social
entrepreneurship must manage based on the need to ‘do no
harm’ across all three tenets of sustainability: social equity,
economic prosperity, and environmental integrity. These three tenets may
be in conflict with each other, but organizations that pursue social
entrepreneurship must manage with all three of them in mind across a wide
range of stakeholders. Extending research on managing organizational
fitness in rugged fitness landscapes, this paper argues that social
entrepreneurship organizations will need to engage in substantial search
processes, will face particularly difficult challenges in managing goals
and initiatives, and will need to move into environmental search and
adaptive modes early in their maturation process.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 23-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
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Author-Name: SOPHIE BACQ
Author-X-Name-First: SOPHIE
Author-X-Name-Last: BACQ
Author-Name: CHANTAL HARTOG
Author-X-Name-First: CHANTAL
Author-X-Name-Last: HARTOG
Author-Name: BRIGITTE HOOGENDOORN
Author-X-Name-First: BRIGITTE
Author-X-Name-Last: HOOGENDOORN
Title: A Quantitative Comparison of Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations in Context
Abstract:
Abstract This study empirically addresses the differences
between social and commercial entrepreneurship by using the largest
available quantitative data source, namely the Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor (GEM) 2009 survey on social entrepreneurship in Belgium and The
Netherlands. We use a combination of exploratory statistical analyses and
qualitative techniques to generate propositions on the organizations and
initiatives that social entrepreneurs are involved in and contrast them
with our understanding of commercial entrepreneurs. This study contributes
to answer the call for more quantitative research and simultaneously
argues that, despite the potential contribution of large-scale data, the
validity and reliability of measurement instruments cannot be seen
independently from their particular context. With this important
observation in mind, our findings indicate a predominance of younger
social organizations or initiatives that rely to a great extent on
government funding, whereas earned income is limited. Furthermore, social
entrepreneurs show less ambition in terms of employment growth and
progression to more mature stages of the entrepreneurial process compared
with commercial entrepreneurs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 40-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.758653
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Author-Name: Simon Teasdale
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Teasdale
Author-Name: Janelle Kerlin
Author-X-Name-First: Janelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Kerlin
Author-Name: Dennis Young
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Author-Name: Jung In Soh
Author-X-Name-First: Jung
Author-X-Name-Last: In Soh
Title: Oil and Water Rarely Mix: Exploring the Relative Stability of Nonprofit Revenue Mixes Over Time
Abstract:
Abstract This paper explores whether nonprofits are
increasingly adopting mixed revenue strategies, and the sustainability of
these strategies over time. We constructed a panel using NCCS data from
1998 and 2007, and divided nonprofits into three groups: Commercial,
Donative, and Mixed Revenue. We found no evidence that nonprofits are
increasingly adopting mixed revenue strategies. Mixed revenue strategies
appeared less sustainable over time than predominately commercial or
predominately donative strategies. Our results suggest that for most
nonprofits, relying predominately on either commercial or donative revenue
(DR) is a more stable equilibrium than attempting to achieve a balanced
revenue mix. Exceptions may be those nonprofits, such as arts
organizations, where there is a natural alliance between donors and
customers.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 69-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.762799
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Author-Name: Anica Zeyen
Author-X-Name-First: Anica
Author-X-Name-Last: Zeyen
Author-Name: Markus Beckmann
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Beckmann
Author-Name: Susan Mueller
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller
Author-Name: J. Gregory Dees
Author-X-Name-First: J. Gregory
Author-X-Name-Last: Dees
Author-Name: Dmitry Khanin
Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry
Author-X-Name-Last: Khanin
Author-Name: Norris Krueger
Author-X-Name-First: Norris
Author-X-Name-Last: Krueger
Author-Name: Patrick J. Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Author-Name: Filipe Santos
Author-X-Name-First: Filipe
Author-X-Name-Last: Santos
Author-Name: Mariarosa Scarlata
Author-X-Name-First: Mariarosa
Author-X-Name-Last: Scarlata
Author-Name: Jennifer Walske
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Walske
Author-Name: Andrew Zacharakis
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Zacharakis
Title: Social Entrepreneurship and Broader Theories: Shedding New Light on the ‘Bigger Picture’
Abstract:
Abstract This article documents the results of a research
workshop bringing together six perspectives on social entrepreneurship.
The idea was to challenge existing concepts of the economy, the firm, and
entrepreneurship in order to shed new light on social entrepreneurship and
on our existing theoretical frameworks. The first two contributions use a
macro-perspective and discuss the notion of adaptive societies and the
tragedies of disharmonization, respectively. Taking a management
perspective, the next two focus on the limits of conventional assumptions
in management theory, particularly human capital theory and resource-based
view. The final two contributions follow an entrepreneurship perspective
highlighting the usefulness of mobilization theory and the business model
lens to social entrepreneurship. Despite this diversity, all contributions
share the fact that they challenge narrow definitions of the unit of
analysis in social entrepreneurship; they illustrate the aspect of social
embeddedness, and they argue for an open-but-disciplined diversity of
theories in social entrepreneurship research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 88-107
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.725422
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Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Editorial: Heroes
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 109-112
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.820385
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Author-Name: S. Teasdale
Author-X-Name-First: S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Teasdale
Author-Name: F. Lyon
Author-X-Name-First: F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyon
Author-Name: R. Baldock
Author-X-Name-First: R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Baldock
Title: Playing with Numbers: A Methodological Critique of the Social Enterprise Growth Myth
Abstract:
Social enterprise is a
contested concept which has become a site for policy intervention in many
countries. In the UK the government has invested significant resources
into social enterprise infrastructure, partly to increase the capacity of
social enterprises to deliver or replace public services. Government
publications show the number of social enterprises to have increased from
5,300 to 62,000 over a five-year period. This paper explores the myth of
social enterprise growth in the UK through a methodological critique of
the four government data sources used to construct and legitimise this
myth. Particular attention is paid to how political decisions influence
the construction of evidence. We find that growth is mainly attributable
to political decisions to reinterpret key elements of the social
enterprise definition and to include new organisational types in sampling
frames.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 113-131
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2012.762800
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Author-Name: UĜur Uygur
Author-X-Name-First: UĜur
Author-X-Name-Last: Uygur
Author-Name: Alexei M. Marcoux
Author-X-Name-First: Alexei M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcoux
Title: The Added Complexity of Social Entrepreneurship: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Abstract:
Social entrepreneurship
evades easy definition and conceptualization. In this paper, we attempt to
advance social entrepreneurship theoretically by examining it
conceptually, from a 'theory of the firm' perspective. If social
entrepreneurship entails pursuit of a double bottom line (Dees,
Harvard Business Review, 76 (1), 54--67, 1998), the added
complexity of the social entrepreneurial venture identified by Tracey and
Phillips (Academy of Management Learning & Education, 6, 264--71,
2007) should be discoverable from a 'theory of the firm'
perspective. Applying the knowledge-based theory of the firm to social
entrepreneurship, we aver that social entrepreneurship's added complexity
is manifest when social entrepreneurial ventures make decisions about
protecting their knowledge. Social entrepreneurial ventures manifest this
added complexity in all three ways Tracey and Phillips identify: managing
accountability, managing identity, and managing the double bottom line. In
contrast to ordinary entrepreneurial ventures, social entrepreneurial
ventures have to balance two incommensurable objectives when they make
decisions about protection of their knowledge.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 132-152
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.777357
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Author-Name: Florian Forster
Author-X-Name-First: Florian
Author-X-Name-Last: Forster
Author-Name: Dietmar Grichnik
Author-X-Name-First: Dietmar
Author-X-Name-Last: Grichnik
Title: Social Entrepreneurial Intention Formation of Corporate Volunteers
Abstract:
The current paper aims to
identify the antecedents of social entrepreneurial intention formation.
Applying the theory of planned behavior on an international sample of 159
entrepreneurial volunteers in a corporate framework, we find positive
relationships between empathy, perceived social norms, self-efficacy,
perceived collective efficacy, and social entrepreneurial intentions with
mediation by perceived desirability and perceived feasibility. Overall, we
contribute to the upcoming domain of social entrepreneurship research by
investigating the individual and environmental antecedents of social
entrepreneurial action in a corporate setting.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 153-181
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.777358
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Author-Name: Eli Gimmon
Author-X-Name-First: Eli
Author-X-Name-Last: Gimmon
Author-Name: Shimon Spiro
Author-X-Name-First: Shimon
Author-X-Name-Last: Spiro
Title: Social and Commercial Ventures: A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability
Abstract:
This study explores
common and different aspects of sustainability, in terms of survival and
growth, between social and commercial ventures. The effects of nonhuman
factors between a sample of social ventures and a sample of commercial
ventures taken from the same environment in Israel were compared. Social
ventures showed higher likelihood to survive and grow. Findings exhibit
interesting similarities between the two types of entrepreneurship in
regard to the significant effect of early market or community acceptance
and the non-effect of early funding diversity on venture long-term
sustainability. Further research is suggested to substantiate these
findings and to explore other aspects of comparison between social and
commercial entrepreneurship.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 182-197
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Othmar M. Lehner
Author-X-Name-First: Othmar M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lehner
Author-Name: Juha Kansikas
Author-X-Name-First: Juha
Author-X-Name-Last: Kansikas
Title: Pre-paradigmatic Status of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Systematic Literature Review
Abstract:
Social entrepreneurship
(SE) research has been presented in the literature as a field of action in
a pre-paradigmatic state, a field that lacks an established epistemology.
Despite that impediment, several qualitative and quantitative studies have
already been undertaken on the sole base of some institutions' worldview
and without previous solidification of theory. Consequently, critics and
social constructivists have found much ambivalence in these and owing to
the resulting mess, even question SE's legitimization as a distinctive
item of research. Articles on the topic of SE make use of a variety of
frameworks, borrowing from neo-institutional or dialectic theory, bringing
with them different research methods and views from other disciplines.
Instead of proposing another conceptual approach and yet contributing to
the ongoing discussion, the authors enact on a deductive journey by
examining and clustering underlying paradigmatic assumptions found in a
large-scale sample (>300) of current articles. In comparison to results
from the management (entrepreneurship) literature, the study finds
statistical evidence to the hypotheses that SE differs in researchers'
paradigms, that seminal SE research transcends the foci on either detached
structures or individuals, and that research in SE is often led by
advocacy worldviews of the researchers themselves.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 198-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.777360
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Author-Name: Benjamin J. Lough
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lough
Author-Name: Amanda Moore McBride
Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Moore
Author-X-Name-Last: McBride
Title: The Influence of Solution-Focused Reflection on International Social Entrepreneurship Identification
Abstract:
This study tests
potential pathways to social entrepreneurship by assessing the influence
of solution-focused reflection among individuals who participated in
international service. Using a logistic regression to analyze 245 survey
responses, findings support the hypothesis that solution-focused
reflection is significantly related to social entrepreneurship. This
finding is consistent with the behavioral theory of social
entrepreneurship opportunity and the creativity model of opportunity
recognition. Implications suggest opportunities for future research on
ways for institutions to structure operations to help entrepreneurs
identify pathways to social action.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 220-236
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Karin Berglund
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Berglund
Author-Name: Birgitta Schwartz
Author-X-Name-First: Birgitta
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz
Title: Holding on to the Anomaly of Social Entrepreneurship Dilemmas in Starting up and Running a Fair-Trade Enterprise
Abstract:
AbstractThe different
shapes taken on by social entrepreneurship in contemporary society show
that social goals are integrated by commercial enterprises and commercial
goals are incorporated by organisations with a social mission. Combining a
social mission with commercial goals is often presented as a 'win-win'
situation. In this article, we highlight the potential tensions and
conflicts created by the conflicting demands and expectations when the
institutional non-profit and for-profit logics meet in social
entrepreneuring. From this viewpoint, social entrepreneurship is an
anomaly, which seems difficult to resolve. Despite this, we often read
descriptions of social entrepreneurs as heroes, which show how social
entrepreneurship is glorified and part of the marketisation of society.
This article sets out to present a more complex and problematic picture of
practising social entrepreneurship where the obvious 'win-win' situations
more often appear as 'win-lose' and sometimes even as 'lose-lose'. From a
three-year ethnographic study of an emerging fair-trade enterprise, the
concept of disharmony shows that dilemmas are part of everyday life in
social entrepreneuring. Instead of posing insoluble conflicts, dilemmas
light the way for the individual social entrepreneur. They are managed
through temporary rationalisation; finding a way to integrate conflicting
demands into the life of a social entrepreneur. Disharmony includes
moments of identity struggle, but is also a learning process in which the
social entrepreneur tries to understand the difference between what she
does and what she actually achieves.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 237-255
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Ikuyo Kaneko
Author-X-Name-First: Ikuyo
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaneko
Title: Social Entrepreneurship in Japan: A Historical Perspective on Current Trends
Abstract:
AbstractResearch suggests
that since the 1980s, both the United States and Europe have experienced a
simultaneous expansion in social entrepreneurship. In the early 2000s, a
new breed of social entrepreneurship emerged in Japan. A careful
reflection on the movement will reveal that there were many manifestations
of social entrepreneurship in premodern Japan as well. This paper analyzes
the historical perspective and the current trends in social
entrepreneurship in Japan. In particular, the paper presents what we call
a 'three-generation model' of the primary drivers of social
entrepreneurship in Japan, and a theoretical model of innovation to answer
the following questions: (i) How has Japanese social entrepreneurship been
developed and who are the primary drivers in the process of development?
(ii) What are the characteristics of Japanese social entrepreneurship as
compared with those in the United States and Europe, and what are the
social contexts generating the differences? (iii) What are the
characteristics of the innovation aspect of Japanese social
entrepreneurship, and why is innovation particularly important in the
institutional context of Japanese society?
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 256-276
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.799085
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Author-Name: Aida Idris
Author-X-Name-First: Aida
Author-X-Name-Last: Idris
Author-Name: Rahayu Hijrah Hati
Author-X-Name-First: Rahayu
Author-X-Name-Last: Hijrah Hati
Title: Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: Lessons from the Past
Abstract:
AbstractThe study examined,
through a balanced review of western and post-colonial literatures, the
development of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia prior to its
independence in 1945. Findings suggest that policies imposed by the Dutch
government had a considerable influence on the growth of social movement
organisations in the former colony. Furthermore, these organisations had
used social entrepreneurship strategies to achieve the mission of
empowering native communities and mobilising them towards independence.
Other factors which contributed to the growth of social entrepreneurship
in the era were the influence of Islam and Javanese aristocratic
leadership. Taken in the context of Indonesia's post-colonial
socio-economic environment, these findings suggest that its current social
entrepreneurship growth is likely to depend on three main factors:
perceived degree of economic empowerment by indigenous groups as a result
of social entrepreneurship, Islamic identity of social enterprises and
social activism.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 277-301
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Monica Diochon
Author-X-Name-First: Monica
Author-X-Name-Last: Diochon
Title: Social Entrepreneurship and Effectiveness in Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of a Canadian First Nations Community
Abstract:
AbstractSocial
entrepreneurship increasingly is being viewed as a way of combating
poverty and marginalization, with the pursuit of an entrepreneurial
strategy being conceptually linked to effectiveness. Yet, in the absence
of research investigating those relationships, particularly at the
community level of analysis, there is little empirical evidence to
substantiate this claim. The research reported here adopts a case study
approach in studying the effectiveness of a Canadian First Nations
community whose purposive action to improve its well being is considered a
strategic case of social entrepreneurship. While the change agents (who
are members of the community) exercised considerable entrepreneurship,
their endeavors did not positively impact the broader community's
entrepreneurial capacity. In fact, the results suggest that the process
has cultivated considerable dependency. A number of contributing factors
are identified and discussed as are the implications.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 302-330
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.820779
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Author-Name: Mariana Bargsted
Author-X-Name-First: Mariana
Author-X-Name-Last: Bargsted
Author-Name: Monserrat Picon
Author-X-Name-First: Monserrat
Author-X-Name-Last: Picon
Author-Name: Alondra Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Alondra
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Author-Name: Yenny Rojas
Author-X-Name-First: Yenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Rojas
Title: Psychosocial Characterization of Social Entrepreneurs: A Comparative Study
Abstract:
AbstractSocial
entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest that demands empirical
studies on different aspects. This is an exploratory study aimed at
identifying a distinctive psychosocial profile of social entrepreneurs
(SE). We conducted a factorial study in which we distinguished social
entrepreneurs (SE), volunteers (VOL), philanthropists (PHI), and
commercial entrepreneurs (CE) in several psychosocial variables: personal
values, entrepreneurship orientation (proactivity, entrepreneurial
self-efficacy, risk tendency, and control locus), social motivation,
empathy orientation, and career identity. Our working hypothesis was that
social entrepreneurs present a particular profile related to values of
benevolence and self-direction, high entrepreneurship orientation, ability
on taking perspective (empathy), a social motive similar to altruism, and
career identity based on service and entrepreneurship. We found evidence
to maintain our hypothesis and it was possible to characterize social
entrepreneurs. The implications of these findings are discussed in this
report.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 331-346
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Ester Barinaga
Author-X-Name-First: Ester
Author-X-Name-Last: Barinaga
Title: Politicising Social Entrepreneurship -- Three Social Entrepreneurial Rationalities Toward Social Change
Abstract:
AbstractScholars in the
field of social entrepreneurship are challenging the researchers to
produce empirical research on the social dimension of this phenomenon.
Drawing on Foucault, this paper proposes the notion of 'social
entrepreneurial rationality' to capture the social dimension of social
entrepreneurship. The article builds on a comparative case study of three
social ventures, each adopting a different rationality to bring about
change in regards to the organisation of their societies along ethnicity.
The first introduces micro-finance in Sweden to address long-term
unemployed women of immigrant background; the second is an immigrant youth
association working to promote the group's values; the third is the
collective production of public art in traditional immigrant suburbs of
Stockholm. Whereas the first uses an economic rationality to address
ethnic inequality, the second and the third make use of discursive and
community rationality, respectively. This challenges social
entrepreneurship scholars to acknowledge the political mileage of social
entrepreneurial rationalities toward social change.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 347-372
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: And in the End
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-4
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.888167
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Author-X-Name-First: Andrew J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Germak
Author-Name: Jeffrey A. Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Exploring the Motivation of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs
Abstract:
Social
entrepreneurship (SE) is an increasingly popular practice in which
business solutions are applied to social problems. While empirical study
of the various facets of SE is on the rise, the motivation of social
entrepreneurs -- a key antecedent of SE -- has received little attention.
In contrast, substantial theoretical and empirical work exists on the
motivation of commercial entrepreneurs as well as the motivation for
public--social sector work. Seeking to fill a gap in the SE literature,
this paper presents qualitative findings from in-person, in-depth
interviews with self-identified nascent social entrepreneurs that
participated in an SE training program in the USA. The findings provide an
empirical foundation for further theory development and research on SE
motivation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 5-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.820781
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Author-Name: Cristina Parente
Author-X-Name-First: Cristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Parente
Author-Name: Alexandra Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes
Author-Name: Vanessa Marcos
Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcos
Title: Social Entrepreneurship Profiles: Lessons from Organizational and Management Dynamics
Abstract:
This paper discusses how the concept of social
entrepreneurship has been applied in Portuguese Third Sector
organizations. It draws on the empirical findings of a survey carried out
on a sample of 89 organizations, in which data on key features of
organizational dynamics were collected. Strongly rooted in mainstream
European theories of social entrepreneurship, the authors propose a
typology of three profiles of social entrepreneurship based on different
configurations of key features of organizations, namely, models of work
organization; coordination/leadership; human resources management; and
funding and action planning.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 22-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.820782
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Author-Name: Abhijit Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Abhijit
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Alan Brumagim
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Brumagim
Author-Name: Irene Goll
Author-X-Name-First: Irene
Author-X-Name-Last: Goll
Title: Predictors of Social Entrepreneurship Success: A Cross-national Analysis of Antecedent Factors
Abstract:
Even though the
practice of social entrepreneurship has a long history, the field has only
begun to gain academic attention in the past few decades. However, most of
the literature to date focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, and
there continues to be a paucity of empirical work in this discipline.
Using the number of social entrepreneurs in a country as a proxy for
prevalence of the phenomenon is a strong predictor -- the validity of the
results was confirmed using two reputable databases of social
entrepreneurs, i.e., the Ashoka and Schwab Foundations. Furthermore, the
components of national-level attitudes for general entrepreneurship, i.e.,
perceived opportunity, no fear of failing, and aspirations of new
technology, were found to be positively correlated with social
entrepreneurship at the country level. Yet, national-level attitudes for
networking and opportunities for start-ups, generally correlated with
general entrepreneurship, were negatively correlated with social
entrepreneurship. We also discuss the implications of our findings and
discuss their consequences as well as suggestions for future research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 42-59
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.820783
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Author-Name: Benjamin Gidron
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gidron
Title: Market-Oriented Social Enterprises Employing People with Disabilities: A Participants' Perspective
Abstract:
The paper focuses on the participants' perspective of
social enterprises, particularly those providing employment for a variety
of handicapped populations. It argues that when dealing with such
populations with the goal of integrating them into society, contrary to
present policy and practice, a market orientation of the organizations
employing them, provides, under certain circumstances and with certain
populations, advantages and opportunities not awarded in nonprofits or
public agencies. It bases the argument on two conceptual frameworks: (1)
the social model of dealing with disabilities and (2) the
strength-based practice in social work. When translated
into the realm of work, both of these suggest that handicapped persons
have capabilities to contribute to the economy, to society as well as to
themselves, provided they are granted appropriate opportunities to do so.
A market-oriented social enterprise framework, designed on the basis of
the concept of 'shared value', can potentially provide
such opportunities.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 60-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.829116
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Author-Name: Edward N. Gamble
Author-X-Name-First: Edward N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gamble
Author-Name: Peter W. Moroz
Author-X-Name-First: Peter W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Moroz
Title: Unpacking Not-for-profit Performance
Abstract:
Little is known
about the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and
performance within not-for-profit (NFP) organizations. Through the
development of a conceptual framework for understanding how EO may
function within an NFP context, we propose three separate interaction
effect models to examine organizational performance outcomes as measured
in terms of high growth. Four conceptualizations of high growth are
offered. Based on a theoretical consideration of social capital and
financial accounting theory, we propose that NFP executives who possess a
combination of EO and two other key factors, a social mission orientation
and financial sustainability orientation, will be a strong predictor of
high-growth organizational performance. The model thus builds upon
previous research that explores the relationship between entrepreneurial
behavior, market orientation and performance by distinguishing between
market and non-market stakeholders and the need to balance between both
when pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 77-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.834457
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Author-Name: Juan Pablo Román
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Román
Author-Name: Adalgisa Battistelli
Author-X-Name-First: Adalgisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Battistelli
Author-Name: Carlo Odoardi
Author-X-Name-First: Carlo
Author-X-Name-Last: Odoardi
Title: Organizational Respect as Mediator Between the Ideological Psychological Contract and Workers' Job Satisfaction: Empirical Findings from the Social Enterprise Sector
Abstract:
Corporate scandals,
financial crises, and/or management decisions driven exclusively by
shareholders' interests have led to massive layouts. For-profit
organizations and employment relationships based on transactional
exchanges have been losing credibility. Hence, non-profit organizations,
social enterprises, and ideologically driven work contracts are calling
the attention of researchers from different disciplines. This paper
presents an empirical research on the psychological ideological contents
of the employee--employer relationship. The study was conducted in 19
organizations pertaining to the social enterprise sector. Using an
exploratory structural equation modeling, the ideological components of
the psychological contract and some of its behavioral and attitudinal
consequences were explored. The findings suggest that, within social
enterprises, the ideological components of the employee--employer
relationship have a positive influence on both perceptions of respect and
job satisfaction. Finally, theoretical and practical implications, as well
as directions for future research on psychological contracts in the social
enterprise sector, are presented.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 107-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.851728
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Author-Name: Ronny Baierl
Author-X-Name-First: Ronny
Author-X-Name-Last: Baierl
Author-Name: Dietmar Grichnik
Author-X-Name-First: Dietmar
Author-X-Name-Last: Grichnik
Author-Name: Matthias Spörrle
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Spörrle
Author-Name: Isabell M. Welpe
Author-X-Name-First: Isabell M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Welpe
Title: Antecedents of Social Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of an Individual's General Social Appraisal
Abstract:
This study addresses antecedents of social entrepreneurial
intentions. First, this study argues that an individual's appraisal to
become a social entrepreneur is an important predictor of social
entrepreneurial intention. Second, this study hypothesizes that this
general social appraisal moderates the influences of two opportunity
characteristics on social entrepreneurial intention. In line with our main
argument, the results of our empirical experiment show a positive
influence of general social appraisal. In addition, this appraisal weakens
the influence of perceived probability of success and strengthens the
influence of perceived social impact on social entrepreneurial intention.
This study concludes with a discussion of the important role of an
individual's general social appraisal in research and practice.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 123-145
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.871324
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Desa
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Desa
Author-Name: James L. Koch
Author-X-Name-First: James L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Koch
Title: Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid
Abstract:
This paper examines the process through which ventures
scale their social impact in base-of-the-pyramid communities. A careful
review of extant literature reveals two distinct modes of scaling social
impact - breadth and depth scale. Drawing on a longitudinal study of
Naandi and Drishtee - two exemplary social ventures in rural India - it is
suggested that the depth and breadth scale develop through different
processes. Each venture dynamically balances a minimum critical
specification of social innovation, affordability, and market penetration
while scaling social impact. We chart this path to scale in the two social
ventures, and find that the relationship between minimum critical
specifications and social impact is mediated by contrasting approaches to
resource mobilization, operating routines, and entrepreneurial adjustment.
The findings suggest that the process of scaling social impact can be
characterized by a punctuated equilibrium model of system change.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 146-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: David Di Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: David Di
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Lee A. Swanson
Author-X-Name-First: Lee A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Swanson
Title: Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Abstract:
The authors review the current research in social
entrepreneurship and sustainability, and propose a process model to link
these two constructs. Social entrepreneurship, as a business philosophy,
moves beyond social, economic, and environmental
efficiency and shifts toward
effectiveness, thereby contributing to business
sustainability. External and internal factors that influence social
entrepreneurship are also examined.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 175-191
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.880503
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Author-Name: Jamie Newth
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie
Author-X-Name-Last: Newth
Author-Name: Christine Woods
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Woods
Title: Resistance to Social Entrepreneurship: How Context Shapes Innovation
Abstract:
Social entrepreneurship emerges from social and
historical contexts. These contexts also bring the institutional norms,
routines, and conventions that challenge and constrain innovation
processes. This article contributes to the emerging theoretical discourse
of social entrepreneurship by explicating the Schumpeterian notion of
resistance. It discusses the context-dependent manifestation of
opportunity in, and resistance to, social entrepreneurship. Social
entrepreneurship opportunities are the constructed outcomes of
entrepreneurial alertness and motivation, and the organizational,
societal, institutional, and market contexts in which the entrepreneur is
embedded. Likewise, these contextual forces resist and refine social
innovations such that they become the products of the financial, social,
cultural, and political expectations of stakeholders of social
entrepreneurship ventures. A deeper understanding of how context shapes
social innovation will give scholars and practitioners a greater
appreciation for the ways in which innovations can succeed because of
resistance, not in spite of it.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 192-213
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.889739
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Author-Name: Frédéric Dufays
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Dufays
Author-Name: Benjamin Huybrechts
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huybrechts
Title: Connecting the Dots for Social Value: A Review on Social Networks and Social Entrepreneurship
Abstract:
The emergence of social entrepreneurship has been
explained at the macro-level (socioeconomic drivers), at the meso-level
(concepts such as opportunity), and at the micro-level (motivations and
intentions of social entrepreneurs). In this conceptual article, it is
argued that the sociology of social networks may contribute to explain how
and why social entrepreneurship arises by bridging micro- and macro-levels
of analysis. Four different usages of the social network concept in the
social entrepreneurship literature are identified: embeddedness of social
entrepreneurship, collective social entrepreneurship, networking as a
critical skill or activity of social entrepreneurship, and finally
networking and the creation of social capital as a goal of social
entrepreneurship. Theoretical frameworks explaining the emergence of
conventional entrepreneurship with a social network lens are identified.
These are evaluated with regard to social entrepreneurship and translated
into a set of research proposals to be explored in order to strengthen our
understanding of social entrepreneurship emergence.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 214-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.918052
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Author-Name: Scott L. Newbert
Author-X-Name-First: Scott L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Newbert
Title: Building Theory in Social Entrepreneurship
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 239-242
Issue: 3
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.948748
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Author-Name: Scott L. Newbert
Author-X-Name-First: Scott L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Newbert
Author-Name: Ronald Paul Hill
Author-X-Name-First: Ronald Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill
Title: Setting the Stage for Paradigm Development: A 'Small-Tent' Approach to Social Entrepreneurship
Abstract:
Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a
field of considerable interest over the past two decades. Unfortunately,
its rapid growth has come at the expense of a unified definition of this
construct. In response, Dacin et al., Nicholls, and Santos recently
proposed how efforts at theorizing might take shape and stimulate more
robust scholarship in this area. This paper seeks to advance their work by
advocating for a new definition of this construct that differentiates
activity that creates real value for society in an entrepreneurial manner
from that which does not. Finally, the paper concludes by addressing how
understanding the construct in this light informs management theory.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 243-269
Issue: 3
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.889738
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Author-Name: Sophie Bacq
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie
Author-X-Name-Last: Bacq
Author-Name: G.T. Lumpkin
Author-X-Name-First: G.T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumpkin
Title: Can Social Entrepreneurship Researchers Learn from Family Business Scholarship? A Theory-Based Future Research Agenda
Abstract:
Searching for a balance between social
mission and financial viability is a distinguishing feature of social
business ventures. This quest might lead to complex challenges and
conundrums, similar to those that arise in family businesses composed of
closely intertwined systems of 'family' and 'business'. Therefore, we
question whether drawing on family business scholarship can help social
entrepreneurship researchers move the field forward. Relying on a systems
model, we conceptually frame three organizational challenges of social
business venture management that can be addressed by insights from the
family business literature: aligning multiple stakeholders, achieving
competitive advantages and enacting sustainable solutions. To analyse
these, we turn to three main theories drawn from family business research
- organizational identity theory, resource-based view and stewardship
theory. As a result, we formulate research questions relevant for future
social entrepreneurship research. By doing so, we hope to offer social
entrepreneurship scholars some guiding principles that are grounded on the
experience of researchers who have analysed similar circumstances and
challenges in other contexts.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 270-294
Issue: 3
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.939693
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Author-Name: Brett Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Brett
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Moriah Meyskens
Author-X-Name-First: Moriah
Author-X-Name-Last: Meyskens
Author-Name: Fiona Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Fiona
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Should We Stay or Should We Go? 'Organizational' Relational Identity and Identification in Social Venture Strategic Alliances
Abstract:
In tackling some of society's most
intractable problems, social ventures often engage in strategic alliances
to overcome resource constraints and scale their solutions. While
considerable research has focused on why strategic alliances are created,
less attention has been focused on how they form and why they may (not)
persist. Building on an identity-based perspective, this paper develops a
theoretical model of strategic alliance development and change by
explaining how, and with what results, leaders of social ventures
influence the development of organizational identities within their own
organizations and strategic alliance partner organizations. The model
presented in this paper contributes to the identity literature by
developing a cross-level model that explains how individual identities can
facilitate the development of organizational identities and by extending
the individual-level construct of relational identity to the
organizational level by introducing the constructs of 'organizational'
relational identity and identification. The model contributes to the
social entrepreneurship and strategy literatures by suggesting that
identity explanations may inform how strategic alliances are formed and
why they may (not) persist.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 295-317
Issue: 3
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.927389
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Author-Name: Ana Cristina O. Siqueira
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Cristina O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Siqueira
Author-Name: Sandra R. H. Mariano
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra R. H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mariano
Author-Name: Joysi Moraes
Author-X-Name-First: Joysi
Author-X-Name-Last: Moraes
Title: Supporting Innovation Ecosystems with Microfinance: Evidence from Brazil and Implications for Social Entrepreneurship
Abstract:
Considering a social enterprise's relationships with
complementors, suppliers, and customers within the broader context of an
innovation ecosystem can help advance theory in the field of social
entrepreneurship. Our qualitative study examines microfinance
organizations in bottom-of-the-pyramid communities in Brazil. Our findings
indicate that interactive relationships with complementors, suppliers, and
customers can improve the microfinance organization's ability to support
commercial transactions, manage financial capital, and educate customers,
thereby improving its ability to facilitate economic development. These
findings extend the literature on innovation ecosystems, microfinance, and
social entrepreneurship.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 318-338
Issue: 3
Volume: 5
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.927388
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Author-Name: Dimitris Christopoulos
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris
Author-X-Name-Last: Christopoulos
Author-Name: Susanne Vogl
Author-X-Name-First: Susanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Vogl
Title: The Motivation of Social Entrepreneurs: The Roles, Agendas and Relations of Altruistic Economic Actors
Abstract:
Social entrepreneurs present a contradiction if one accepts that economic
motivation is premised on personal gain alone. The economic activity of
social entrepreneurs is presumed altruistic, their actions intending to
primarily benefit others. The theoretical and actual motivations, social
networks and values of these actors are compared in this article. A series
of semi-structured interviews of prominent social entrepreneurs in the
west of England form the basis of analysis. Subjects were selected through
a nomination-referral technique that allows targeting for interview those
who are considered prominent in the sector within the chosen location. Two
types of analysis are attempted: a narrative exploration of their
motivations and a semantic networks analysis of their statements. There is
evidence of a conceptual association between those actors' success,
entrepreneurship, motivation and social relations that indicate profitable
avenues for future research. Some policy recommendations are offered in
the conclusion. The multiple roles of social entrepreneurs and the
multiple audiences they address indicate multidimensional agency. The
development of the sector depends on comprehending conflict inherent in
their multiple agendas.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-30
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954254
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Author-Name: Yung-kai Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Yung-kai
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Author-Name: Shu-ling Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Shu-ling
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Title: An Exploratory Study to Understand the Internationalization Strategies of Social Enterprises
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to explore the internationalization behaviour of
for-profit and not-for-profit social enterprises. The paper argues that
the process of internationalization has at least three aspects, namely
operational modes, product preferences, and expansion strategies. Two
organizations, Motherhouse and World Bicycle Relief, are used as examples.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 31-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954255
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Author-Name: Alessandro Lanteri
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Lanteri
Title: The Creation of Social Enterprises: Some Lessons from Lebanon
Abstract:
The article presents a field study of seven social enterprises operating
in Lebanon, looking back at the process of their creation. The results are
discussed against the growing body of literature on nascent social
entrepreneurship. The study proposes a theoretical refinement of the
notion of social bricoleur to include the activist/entrepreneur
distinction and the issue/value type of opportunity identified and it
supports seven general conclusions on social entrepreneurship at large, as
well as some implications for practice and for future research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 42-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954256
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Author-Name: Mavhungu Abel Mafukata
Author-X-Name-First: Mavhungu Abel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mafukata
Author-Name: Willie Dhlandhlara
Author-X-Name-First: Willie
Author-X-Name-Last: Dhlandhlara
Author-Name: Grace Kancheya
Author-X-Name-First: Grace
Author-X-Name-Last: Kancheya
Title: Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Social Capital Development, Continuity and Sustainability Among Microfinance Adopting Households in Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Abstract:
The main objective of this study was to investigate the socio-demographic
factors affecting social capital development, continuity and
sustainability among microfinance adopting households in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.
The specific objective was to investigate the socio-demographic
characteristics of the microfinance adopters. One hundred and forty-six
respondents were purposely and randomly selected for questionnaire-based
conducted interviews among members of the Kufusa Mari microfinance
programme. The data were captured into an Excel spreadsheet and analysed
through an SPSS program. The results were determined through a
perception-based approach. Respondents were asked to identify the factors
that would have impacted on their membership in the group. The results
revealed that the majority of the respondents were older married
Shona-speaking women who had attained secondary education, followed by
those with primary and tertiary education. Ethnic identity, marital
status, ownership of assets, social status in the community, political
affiliation and religiosity would have major impact on social capital.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 70-79
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954257
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Author-Name: Richard K. Blundel
Author-X-Name-First: Richard K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Blundel
Author-Name: Fergus Lyon
Author-X-Name-First: Fergus
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyon
Title: Towards a 'Long View': Historical Perspectives on the Scaling and Replication of Social Ventures
Abstract:
Social ventures are now widely regarded as playing an essential role in
addressing persistent and pervasive societal challenges. This insight has
prompted an active search for readily scaleable and replicable business
models. However, relatively little consideration has been given to the
longer term growth and performance of these hybrid organizational forms.
This paper examines how historically informed research might enhance our
understanding of growth processes. It considers the conceptualization of
organizational growth in social ventures and the relevance of prevailing
constructs. The explanatory potential of 'long-view' approaches is
examined by applying three constructs (opportunity recognition,
entrepreneurial adjustment and institutional structure) in a comparative
historical analysis of two British social ventures.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 80-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954258
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Author-Name: Wee-Liang Tan
Author-X-Name-First: Wee-Liang
Author-X-Name-Last: Tan
Author-Name: So-Jin Yoo
Author-X-Name-First: So-Jin
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoo
Title: Social Entrepreneurship Intentions of Nonprofit Organizations
Abstract:
Little is known about social entrepreneurship in nonprofit organizations
(NPOs), especially about the factors that influence social
entrepreneurship intentions at organizational level. Would existing NPOs,
as opposed to new ones formed to embark on new social initiatives, strike
out into a new territory, or engage in new ventures? What are the
necessary internal organizational conditions? This study explores the
direct effect of the organizational attributes on a NPO's intention to
start a social enterprise. With a sample of 92 charities in Singapore, we
found that NPOs led by CEOs with commercial experience, and NPOs
possessing high collective efficacy and organization innovativeness were
more likely to start a social enterprise. A NPO's social cause (mission)
was also found to have a positive effect on its social entrepreneurship
intention. Contrary to our expectations, resource availability and
risk-taking propensity of the NPOs were not related to social
entrepreneurship intentions. Findings and implications were discussed, and
future research directions were provided.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 103-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954260
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Author-Name: Anne De Bruin
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: De Bruin
Author-Name: Kate V. Lewis
Author-X-Name-First: Kate V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis
Title: Traversing the Terrain of Context in Social Entrepreneurship
Abstract:
The terrain of context in social entrepreneurship is not uniform. It is
complex and has a variety of contours. This article provides an original
typological conceptual framework to advance a deeper understanding of how
the different contours of context can shape and also be shaped by the
enactment of the processes of social entrepreneurship. It draws on the
collection of articles in the special issue to illuminate the framework
and describes four distinct roles that context can play in relation to the
enactment of social entrepreneurship. It also uses the framework to
springboard discussion on a future research agenda.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 127-136
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1038005
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Author-Name: Colette Henry
Author-X-Name-First: Colette
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry
Title: Doing Well by Doing Good: Opportunity Recognition and the Social Enterprise Partnership
Abstract:
This paper contributes to social enterprise theory by furthering
understanding of the process of opportunity recognition within partnership
settings. Using opportunity recognition as the central construct, and
drawing on case study evidence, the paper explores a social enterprise
partnership (SEP) in an effort to uncover the drivers for its creation,
identify factors influencing its success, and highlight its social value.
Findings reveal that the nature of the opportunity exploited, alongside
recognition of its mutual problem-solving potential led to the
partnership's success. It is suggested that a SEP of this nature can be of
particular value in economically deprived areas where resources are
constrained and collaborative approaches are critical. A framework for
analysing opportunity recognition and exploitation in SEP contexts is
proposed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 137-160
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.997780
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Author-Name: Katerina Nicolopoulou
Author-X-Name-First: Katerina
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicolopoulou
Author-Name: Iain Lucas
Author-X-Name-First: Iain
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucas
Author-Name: Ahu Tatli
Author-X-Name-First: Ahu
Author-X-Name-Last: Tatli
Author-Name: Mine Karatas-Ozkan
Author-X-Name-First: Mine
Author-X-Name-Last: Karatas-Ozkan
Author-Name: Laura A. Costanzo
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: A. Costanzo
Author-Name: Mustafa Özbilgin
Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa
Author-X-Name-Last: Özbilgin
Author-Name: Graham Manville
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Manville
Title: Questioning the Legitimacy of Social Enterprises through Gramscian and Bourdieusian Perspectives: The Case of British Social Enterprises
Abstract:
Drawing on data from six social enterprises in the UK, this paper
demonstrates that social enterprises negotiate their legitimacy borrowing
from the state, the corporation and the service logics. The paper
illustrates the existential crises of legitimacy as experienced in the
social enterprise sector. The utility of a principled ethical approach is
discussed as a way forward. The paper also outlines challenges that social
enterprises face when adopting an ethical approach. Theoretical tools of
Gramsci and Bourdieu are mobilized in the paper in order to render visible
the often implicit and questioned structures of hegemonic power that shape
the habitus of legitimacy in social enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 161-185
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.961095
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Author-Name: Lauren Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Lauren
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Christine Woods
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Woods
Title: Stakeholder Engagement in the Social Entrepreneurship Process: Identity, Governance and Legitimacy
Abstract:
This paper explores how stakeholder expectations are managed through the
social entrepreneurship process of opportunity construction, evaluation
and pursuit. Building on an in-depth case study, a model of stakeholder
engagement through identity, governance and legitimacy is presented.
Stakeholders are managed by an identity constructed through an integration
of the organization's multiple identities to form a meta-identity.
Governance is important in the management of stakeholders in order to be
entrepreneurial while being accountable. Stakeholders support the
organization based on legitimacy that is gained through creating
stakeholder value and by conforming to existing social structures as well
as creating new operating models, practices and ideas.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 186-217
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.987802
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Author-Name: Sothy Khieng
Author-X-Name-First: Sothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Khieng
Author-Name: Heidi Dahles
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahles
Title: Commercialization in the Non-Profit Sector: The Emergence of Social Enterprise in Cambodia
Abstract:
The increasing commercialization among non-profit organizations is
shifting financial dependence from charitable donations to self-generated
earned income through social entrepreneurial ventures. Little is known
about the consequences of this shift. There is a lack of literature
discussing how ventures into social entrepreneurship by non-profit
organizations evolve and what effects they have on multiple dimensions of
these organizations. To address this gap, the aim of this paper is to
describe and analyse processes of commercialization of non-profit sector
organizations and their effects on social-entrepreneurial NGOs in
Cambodia. The data used in this study is based on a large-scale
quantitative survey and qualitative key informant interviews with NGO
leaders and administrators of NGOs in five regions across Cambodia. The
authors found that the struggle for social and financial sustainability is
one of the major motivations for organizations engaging in commercial
ventures. Commercialization has transformative effects on the goals,
motives, methods, income distribution, and governance component of NGOs in
the sample. At the same time, however, commercialization tends to sideline
the social mission of NGOs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 218-243
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954261
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Author-Name: Susan Mueller
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller
Author-Name: Robert S. D'Intino
Author-X-Name-First: Robert S.
Author-X-Name-Last: D'Intino
Author-Name: Jennifer Walske
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Walske
Author-Name: Michel L. Ehrenhard
Author-X-Name-First: Michel L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehrenhard
Author-Name: Scott L. Newbert
Author-X-Name-First: Scott L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Newbert
Author-Name: Jeffrey A. Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Author-Name: Jason C. Senjem
Author-X-Name-First: Jason C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Senjem
Title: What's Holding Back Social Entrepreneurship? Removing the Impediments to Theoretical Advancement
Abstract:
This article summarizes four contributions that were presented in a
professional development workshop at the 2013 Academy of Management
conference. The goal of the workshop was to discuss impediments to the
theoretical advancement of social entrepreneurship. This paper's first two
contributors discuss assumptions and boundaries of social
entrepreneurship, exhibiting contrasting views of whether theory should be
aggregated or disaggregated. The other two scholars focus on specific
topics that advance social entrepreneurship research, specifically,
studying the implicit normative underpinning of social entrepreneurship
and social innovation processes. This is part three of a three-part series
dealing with the future of social entrepreneurship research and theory.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 245-256
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.954259
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Author-Name: Youngkeun Choi
Author-X-Name-First: Youngkeun
Author-X-Name-Last: Choi
Title: How Partnerships Affect the Social Performance of Korean Social Enterprises
Abstract:
Social enterprises receive a lot of attention, because of their ability to
balance social service-enhancing and profit-making activities. They can
survive and have financial sustainability in markets and provide social
services that would otherwise not be provided due to the failure of
private or government provision. In the Korean context, social enterprises
have another function - to provide jobs and increase employment rates in
times of low economic growth and growing inequality. Given this situation,
it is useful for researchers to investigate what types of partners provide
particular sorts of resources to social enterprises and what types of
resources from such partners may have mediating effects on the
relationship between partnerships and the social performance of social
enterprises. First, this research shows that all partners of social
enterprises provide financial support and public and social partners
provide marketing support, while private partners do not provide marketing
support. However, no partners provide any managerial support. Second,
public and social partners are helpful for the social performance of
social enterprises but their financial support influences the social
performance of social enterprises negatively. Private partners and their
financial support also influence the social performance of social
enterprises negatively.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 257-277
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.965723
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Author-Name: Emmanuel T. Kodzi
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kodzi
Title: The Clash of Missions: Juxtaposing Competing Pressures in South Africa's Social Enterprises
Abstract:
Social enterprises seek resource combinations to provide some assurance of
sustainability as they create social value in a defined domain of action.
However, this resource-seeking mandate also constitutes a distraction that
complicates the operations of any social enterprise. How do social
enterprises manage the implicit duality of maintaining a commercial
mission in order to achieve their social mission? Using the context of
South Africa, this study examines the process trade-offs that enhance or
limit social impact under the referenced duality. The study clarifies the
nature of these trade-offs, as a basis for appropriating
efficiency-enhancing process design in enterprises that create, but do not
capture value. The author proposes a unique intersection between the logic
of control and the logic of empowerment in the field of social
entrepreneurship, and suggests that value chain processes be controlled to
the extent that the enterprise acts as a custodian of community
empowerment for its target beneficiaries.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 278-298
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.981844
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Author-Name: Fredrik O. Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Fredrik O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Author-Name: Michael Ford
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ford
Title: Reframing Social Entrepreneurship Impact: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive Outputs and Outcomes of the Milwaukee School Voucher Programme
Abstract:
This paper initially seeks to problematize the common assumption that all
social entrepreneurship impact is positive. No matter what social
entrepreneurs and other powerful intermediaries subjectively believe or
hope, assuming that social entrepreneurship is always productive a priori
imposes significant limits on this budding field. In order to overcome
this bias it is necessary to reframe how we approach and assess social
entrepreneurship impact. Drawing from the economic entrepreneurship
literature, this paper outlines a multi-dimensional framework to serve as
a useful and preferable starting point for assessing social
entrepreneurship. We then make use of this multi-dimensional lens to look
closer at the impact of one case of social entrepreneurship, the school
voucher programme in Milwaukee.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 299-319
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.981845
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Author-Name: Sarah Easter
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Easter
Author-Name: Mary Conway Dato-On
Author-X-Name-First: Mary
Author-X-Name-Last: Conway Dato-On
Title: Bridging Ties Across Contexts to Scale Social Value: The Case of a Vietnamese Social Enterprise
Abstract:
Social enterprises that seek to operate across multiple contexts to
achieve desired outcomes require substantial reliance upon social capital.
This study examines social capital within a social enterprise by
addressing how complex institutional and cultural contexts contribute to
unique development and leverage of social capital in such organizations.
Based upon a one-year ethnographic study involving a Vietnamese social
enterprise, the research provides a nuanced perspective of the focal
social enterprise and the social capital tensions it encountered in
operating across multiple contexts to meet social goals. It also offers a
theoretical model detailing the key organizational strategies and
associated internal dynamics utilized by social enterprises that will
affect their potential to effectively navigate social ties across national
and cultural borders.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 320-351
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1049284
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Author-Name: Jarrod Ormiston
Author-X-Name-First: Jarrod
Author-X-Name-Last: Ormiston
Author-Name: Kylie Charlton
Author-X-Name-First: Kylie
Author-X-Name-Last: Charlton
Author-Name: M. Scott Donald
Author-X-Name-First: M. Scott
Author-X-Name-Last: Donald
Author-Name: Richard G. Seymour
Author-X-Name-First: Richard G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Seymour
Title: Overcoming the Challenges of Impact Investing: Insights from Leading Investors
Abstract:
Interest and activity around impact investment have increased
significantly in recent years as businesses, governments and communities
seek new solutions to enable an inclusive and sustainable society in the
face of social and environmental challenges. Philanthropists, charitable
foundations and institutional investors have been among the early adopters
in implementing impact investment strategies and developing the field.
Despite the initial enthusiasm for impact investment, many investors raise
concerns as they begin to explore the practicalities of impact investing.
This paper responds to these concerns by providing empirical insights on
how leading institutional investors and charitable foundations have begun
to develop impact investment strategies and overcome various trepidations.
The findings reveal four main themes: a focus on financial-first
investments; the importance of using established due-diligence processes;
the opportunity to align mission and values; and, the value of networks
and collaboration.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 352-378
Issue: 3
Volume: 6
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1049285
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Author-Name: Bengo Irene
Author-X-Name-First: Bengo
Author-X-Name-Last: Irene
Author-Name: Arena Marika
Author-X-Name-First: Arena
Author-X-Name-Last: Marika
Author-Name: Azzone Giovanni
Author-X-Name-First: Azzone
Author-X-Name-Last: Giovanni
Author-Name: Calderini Mario
Author-X-Name-First: Calderini
Author-X-Name-Last: Mario
Title: Indicators and metrics for social business: a review of current approaches
Abstract:
This paper aims to perform a review of different accounting frameworks,
including indicators and metrics applicable to the social business sector,
discussing the strengths and the weaknesses of different approaches in
relationship to their ability to respond to objectives and interests of
different stakeholders in the social business ecosystem. Then, the paper
discusses the key role that indicators and metrics could play in the light
of the transformations that the social business sector is witnessing, such
as the emergence of new financial supply chains and the entrance of new
relevant players.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-24
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1049286
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Author-Name: Lowell W. Busenitz
Author-X-Name-First: Lowell W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Busenitz
Author-Name: Mark P. Sharfman
Author-X-Name-First: Mark P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharfman
Author-Name: David M. Townsend
Author-X-Name-First: David M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Townsend
Author-Name: Jason A. Harkins
Author-X-Name-First: Jason A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Harkins
Title: The Emergence of Dual-Identity Social Entrepreneurship: Its Boundaries and Limitations
Abstract:
This paper delineates the conceptual domain of dual-identity social
entrepreneurship (DISE) and grounds its components theoretically. DISE
entails the creation of ventures whose business model is designed by
individual founders to create demonstrable and continued public value from
strategic actions while simultaneously creating continued economic value.
Because the growing interest in social entrepreneurship spans academic
areas, boundaries are established among DISE and four related areas: i.e.
conventional entrepreneurship, non-governmental organizations which engage
in economic transactions, individual social activism, and corporate social
performance. This paper proposes key research questions, discusses the
conceptualization's theoretical implications and provides a research
agenda.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 25-48
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.987801
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Author-Name: Tuukka Toivonen
Author-X-Name-First: Tuukka
Author-X-Name-Last: Toivonen
Title: What is the Social Innovation Community? Conceptualizing an Emergent Collaborative Organization
Abstract:
Although social innovation is stimulating tremendous interest among
scholars and policy-makers, its emergent catalysts are insufficiently
understood. This paper thus identifies and explores a relevant
collaborative organization, the social innovation community (SIC). Found
in cosmopolitan cities, SICs are held together by recognizable shared
cultures and online/offline spaces. This account sets out a basic
categorization of SICs, profiles their salient features, and offers an
original definition. SICs support early-stage social entrepreneurship but
may also help to introduce social innovation into new cultural settings,
re-programme wider innovation circuits, and promote productive
collaboration amid diversity.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 49-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.997779
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Author-Name: Erin Chmelik
Author-X-Name-First: Erin
Author-X-Name-Last: Chmelik
Author-Name: Martina Musteen
Author-X-Name-First: Martina
Author-X-Name-Last: Musteen
Author-Name: Mujtaba Ahsan
Author-X-Name-First: Mujtaba
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahsan
Title: Measures of Performance in the Context of International Social Ventures: An Exploratory Study
Abstract:
This study reviews literature on performance measures among international
social ventures and draws interviews with 12 US social ventures to explore
how the use of such measures varies depending on the type of social
venture, its funding business model, and scale of operations. We find some
distinct differences in the use of performance measures among the
different types of social enterprises related to the focus on
stakeholders, emphasis on inputs, outputs, and outcomes. Implications for
theory and practice of social entrepreneurship are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 74-100
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.997781
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Author-Name: Karla I. Mendoza-Abarca
Author-X-Name-First: Karla I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendoza-Abarca
Author-Name: Hillary N. Mellema
Author-X-Name-First: Hillary N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mellema
Title: Aligning economic and social value creation through pay-what-you-want pricing
Abstract:
The main objective of social ventures is the creation of social value.
However, these organizations must also generate and appropriate economic
value to fund their social value-creating activities. Mechanisms that
enable the alignment of these seemingly contradicting goals are necessary.
The authors propose that a participative pricing mechanism known as
pay-what-you-want (PWYW) is capable of aligning a venture's economic and
social value creation goals. This mechanism allows customers to determine
the price they are willing and able to pay. The authors explain that this
mechanism enables social ventures to generate social value through their
commercial activities by serving more beneficiaries in need, reducing the
stigma of receiving help, allowing non-disadvantaged customers to show
support for the social venture, and aligning commercial activities with
the social mission, all while ensuring that sufficient economic value is
captured to sustain operations.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 101-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1015437
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Author-Name: Thomas Scheuerle
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Scheuerle
Author-Name: Bjoern Schmitz
Author-X-Name-First: Bjoern
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmitz
Title: Inhibiting Factors of Scaling up the Impact of Social Entrepreneurial Organizations -- A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Results for Germany
Abstract:
This paper proposes an analytical framework for understanding the
inhibiting factors in scaling the social impact of social entrepreneurial
organizations (SEOs). The framework distinguishes the relevant actors on
different levels (leaders, organization, ecosystem) and suggests
(pre)conditions from their perspectives (willingness, ability, admission)
that are crucial for scaling processes. It further argues that those
(pre)conditions are determined by three social forces (cognitive frames,
social networks, and institutions) as proposed by Beckert (2010) in his
social grid model. The framework is applied and tested by empirically
analysing current inhibiting factors for scaling SEOs' impact in Germany,
a state with a highly regulated social welfare field. The empirical
analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with 16 German SEOs, being
mainly young and small pioneer organizations. It identifies a wide range
of inhibiting factors, showing that the German welfare system imposes
specific barriers for scaling innovative ideas of smaller SEOs. The
findings are discussed against previous research conducted in
English-speaking institutional contexts and set out implications and
suggestions for further research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 127-161
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1086409
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Author-Name: Marine Wulleman
Author-X-Name-First: Marine
Author-X-Name-Last: Wulleman
Author-Name: Marek Hudon
Author-X-Name-First: Marek
Author-X-Name-Last: Hudon
Title: Models of Social Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from Mexico
Abstract:
This paper seeks to improve the understanding of social entrepreneurship
models based on empirical evidence from Mexico, where social
entrepreneurship is currently booming. It aims to supplement existing
typologies of social entrepreneurship models. To that end, building on
typology it begins by providing a new framework classifying the three
types of social entrepreneurship. A comparative case study of 10 Mexican
social enterprises is then elaborated using that framework. Findings
suggest that these distinct typologies are evolving in a dynamic manner
determined by the resources and ambitions of social entrepreneurs.
Starting either as social bricoleurs or as social constructionists, social
entrepreneurs aspire to become social engineers. Moreover, social
constructionists usually present hybrid business models.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 162-188
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1057207
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Author-Name: Michael Gordon
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Gordon
Title: How Social Enterprises Change: The Perspective of the Evolution of Technology
Abstract:
A novel account of social enterprises is presented by explaining that they
are technologies. This perspective leads to an understanding that social
enterprises evolve in two different ways. First, individual social
enterprises are subject to a non-Darwinian, ‘combinatorial’
evolution. This helps explain how social enterprises change incrementally,
how they get stuck, and how they then must look to new, inventive
principles to advance. Second, social enterprises evolve as a domain,
which is a set of tools, practices, and activities underlying a
discipline. This second form of evolution propels the entire field
forward. Finally, an explanation is given for how one technology domain
‘encounters’ another, bringing about changes to them both.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 189-210
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1086410
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Author-Name: Stela Valchovska
Author-X-Name-First: Stela
Author-X-Name-Last: Valchovska
Author-Name: Gerald Watts
Author-X-Name-First: Gerald
Author-X-Name-Last: Watts
Title: Interpreting Community-Based Enterprise: A Case Study from Rural Wales
Abstract:
The research discussed in this paper analyses a successful community-based
enterprise (CBE) project located in a Welsh market town by means of a
qualitative case study. The primary aim of the research was to explore the
enterprise creation process and, as a structuring device, it makes use of
a conceptual framework for the creation of CBEs drawn from the academic
literature. In addition to generating a number of insights into the
origins, key attributes and development of CBEs, the paper also evaluates
the applicability of the framework to the UK context. An extensive
analysis from a community-centred perspective revealed a complex blend of
‘individual’ versus ‘community’ actions in the
foundation and development of the CBE. While a few actors were
identifiable as the primary drivers of the project as its venture
champions, there was a relatively high level of participation by the
broader community as shareholders, volunteers and users, justifying the
‘community’ descriptor. A number of limitations are revealed
in the applicability of the initial conceptual framework, which originated
from research in developing economies. It is therefore concluded that
further work is needed in different socio-economic and geographical
contexts to develop a robust understanding of CBEs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 211-235
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1158731
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Author-Name: Peter Jenner
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenner
Author-Name: Florin Oprescu
Author-X-Name-First: Florin
Author-X-Name-Last: Oprescu
Title: The Sectorial Trust of Social Enterprise: Friend or Foe?
Abstract:
This paper examines the social capital of social enterprise and the
opportunities it presents for collaboration and sustainability.
Incorporating a mixed methods approach the study included a sample of 93
leaders from a cross-section of social enterprises in Australia and
Scotland. The research results suggest that social enterprise leaders
exhibit high levels of trust and collaborative tendencies as well as a
potentially beneficial mix of strong and weak social connections. However,
sectorial trust does not seem to influence the growth of social
enterprises. Social enterprise leaders must develop new capabilities and
strategies to access the additional benefits of social capital.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 236-261
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1158732
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Author-Name: Johan Bruneel
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruneel
Author-Name: Nathalie Moray
Author-X-Name-First: Nathalie
Author-X-Name-Last: Moray
Author-Name: Robin Stevens
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Stevens
Author-Name: Yves Fassin
Author-X-Name-First: Yves
Author-X-Name-Last: Fassin
Title: Balancing Competing Logics in For-Profit Social Enterprises: A Need for Hybrid Governance
Abstract:
This paper reports a case study of a for-profit award-winning social enterprise that faced bankruptcy two years after founding. The findings show that the firm's overemphasis on the social employment logic and the increasing disregard of the commercial market logic led to the failure. This imbalance in response to the two competing logics was fuelled by the entrepreneurs’ strong social values, stakeholder reinforcement, and lack of appropriate governance. This study shows that hybrid organizations need to pay attention to the governance of the tension between competing demands inside as well as outside the organization. Hybrid organizations therefore require a hybrid governance model. By presenting a case of failure of a social enterprise, the paper counterbalances the dominance of optimistic idealism in social entrepreneurship literature.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 263-288
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1166147
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Author-Name: Lumina S. Albert
Author-X-Name-First: Lumina S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Albert
Author-Name: Thomas J. Dean
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dean
Author-Name: Robert A. Baron
Author-X-Name-First: Robert A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Baron
Title: From Social Value to Social Cognition: How Social Ventures Obtain the Resources They Need for Social Transformation
Abstract:
Academic and popular discussions of social entrepreneurship often point to the importance of social value creation in contributing to a social venture's success. Implied in these discussions is the assumption that the more pressing the social problem addressed by the mission or the greater the social value generated, the more successful and attractive the venture will be. The present theoretical framework uses social cognition theory to examine the link between dimensions of the social mission and the venture's appeal to resource providers, and suggests that the magnitude of social value created is only one of a broader set of mission characteristics that influence social venture outcomes, such as resource acquisition from potential resource providers. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 289-311
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1188323
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Author-Name: Michelle T. Hackett
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackett
Title: Solving ‘Social Market Failures’ with Social Enterprises? Grameen Shakti (Village Energy) in Bangladesh
Abstract:
Addressing a gap in the social entrepreneurship literature, this paper explores the combined economic and socio-cultural and political difficulties inherent in addressing ‘social market failures’ by social enterprises in developing countries. Statistical analysis, interviews and observations of Grameen Shakti (Village Energy) are used to explore its approach to addressing energy market failures in rural Bangladesh. The paper finds that while Grameen Shakti is exceeding expectations in rural energy technology sales, it has had difficulties reaching the poorest for both financial and socio-cultural reasons. Political reflections, drawing from the broader ‘development literature’, suggest, further, that product-focused social enterprises are generally not well equipped to deal with the complex socio-political issues underlying energy poverty.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 312-341
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1188324
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Author-Name: Daniel Tischer
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Tischer
Author-Name: Ruth Yeoman
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoman
Author-Name: Stuart White
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart
Author-X-Name-Last: White
Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Author-Name: Jonathan Michie
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Michie
Title: An Evaluative Framework for Mutual and Employee-Owned Businesses
Abstract:
Mutual and employee-owned businesses (MEOBs) continue to experience a revival in the UK, be it through the growth of building societies and financial mutuals, or the success of employee-owned businesses. In addition, government has promoted MEOBs by transferring public services into new corporate forms, citing reports of resilience and long-term success of MEOBs.Yet despite these developments, there appears to be some ambiguity as to how to evaluate the performance of MEOBs. The lack of a coherent framework that takes the values, principles and structures into account when assessing outputs and outcomes results in a narrow understanding of MEOB performance, often focused on quantitative measures irrespective of the values and principles held by these types of organizations, and indeed their purpose.In an effort to advance such work, this paper seeks to outline a framework to evaluate mutual and employee-owned businesses taking account of a variety of dimensions that affect how MEOBs do business, and the outcomes they produce, to broaden the idea of performance by joining up values and principles that are at the centre of the mutual model with the outputs and outcomes that are being created.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 342-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1190396
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1221945
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Title: Corrigendum
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 369-369
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1227555
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Author-Name: Rafael Ziegler
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziegler
Title: Citizen Innovation as Niche Restoration – A Type of Social Innovation and Its Relevance for Political Participation and Sustainability
Abstract:
There have been many creative responses to modern economic, political and technological developments and their (un)intended social and ecological consequences. These responses provide the soil for the type of social innovation identified in this article: citizen innovation as niche restoration. It is about civic action that creates novelty by seeking to restore the places and practices citizens already value. Drawing from an in-depth case study on decentralized water management, the concept of citizen innovation as niche restoration is explored, and its implications for political participation and sustainability discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 338-353
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1364286
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Author-Name: Martijn Jeroen van der Linden
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn Jeroen
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Linden
Author-Name: Cees van Beers
Author-X-Name-First: Cees
Author-X-Name-Last: van Beers
Title: Are Private (Digital) Moneys (Disruptive) Social Innovations? An Exploration of Different Designs
Abstract:
This article explores which private moneys qualify as (disruptive) social innovations. A case study into 30 Dutch-based complementary currencies and cryptocurrencies was conducted to understand the functioning of different designs of private money systems as well as the motivations and objectives of involved social innovators. We conclude that private moneys generally can be qualified as social innovations but that their potential for disruptiveness is limited by design. It is the externalities that come with the public and network nature of monetary systems that are likely to impede disruption by private (digital) moneys.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 302-319
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1364287
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Author-Name: Nadia von Jacobi
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: von Jacobi
Author-Name: Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
Author-X-Name-First: Enrica
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiappero-Martinetti
Title: Social Innovation, Individuals and Societies: An Empirical Investigation of Multi-layered Effects
Abstract:
Empirical investigation of social innovation and its effects is a much under-explored terrain. Difficulties range from the conceptual complexity of social innovation processes to empirical implementation. This study applies a conceptual framework (ESGM) that envisages multi-layered effects of social innovation on individuals and societies. It analyzes subjective, primary data to compare three different European cases, proposing an empirical strategy to capture their effects. Perceptions of participants report improvements in autonomy and that social innovations mainly produce intangible outcomes such as knowledge and personal relationships, which are unlikely to be captured in synthetic measures such as average effects or money metrics.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 271-301
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1364288
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Author-Name: Lara Maestripieri
Author-X-Name-First: Lara
Author-X-Name-Last: Maestripieri
Title: Does Social Innovation Reduce the Economic Marginalization of Women? Insights from the Case of Italian Solidarity Purchasing Groups
Abstract:
This paper explores the relationship between gender and social innovation to highlight the possible positive effects of women's participation in social innovation in terms of protection from economic marginalization. It focuses on Italian solidarity purchasing groups as a case of social innovation in the domain of food and agriculture. The analysis is based on logistic regression using primary data collected in 2016 for the EU funded project CrESSI. The results show that participation in social innovation does protect households from worsening economic conditions. However, it was not empirically proven that there is a significant difference between men and women in the benefit enjoyed from the participation in solidarity purchasing groups.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 320-337
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1364289
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Author-Name: György Molnár
Author-X-Name-First: György
Author-X-Name-Last: Molnár
Title: Capability building combined with microcredit: the loan alone is insufficient
Abstract:
The article analyses the specific features of a social innovation aimed at assisting a social group, which is not simply marginalized, but also socially excluded at least for decades. It focuses on the activities of a non-profit corporation providing microcredit, mentoring and other social services to undereducated, unemployed and socially excluded Roma people in Hungary. The paper relies on the capability approach developed by Sen and Nussbaum. The main conclusion is that providing loans without capability building can lead to a mission drift towards less disadvantaged groups, and consequently the exclusion of the most disadvantaged may even increase.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 354-374
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1371632
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Author-Name: Nadia von Jacobi
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: von Jacobi
Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Author-Name: Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
Author-X-Name-First: Enrica
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiappero-Martinetti
Title: Theorizing Social Innovation to Address Marginalization
Abstract:
Social innovation has increasingly been referred to as a potential driver for – transformative and disruptive -- social change because it offers the potential to provide solutions to social needs that the current institutional status quo neglects or only partially attends to. In this introduction to the special issue on social innovation and marginalisation, the editors provide an overview of the theoretical framework, with which the two phenomena can be put into connection. It introduces the Extended Social Grid Model, in which an institutionalist perspective on social forces can be combined with the capability approach that puts human agency at its core.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 265-270
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1380340
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Author-Name: Mariya Jilinskaya-Pandey
Author-X-Name-First: Mariya
Author-X-Name-Last: Jilinskaya-Pandey
Author-Name: Jeremy Wade
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy
Author-X-Name-Last: Wade
Title: Social Entrepreneur Quotient: An International Perspective on Social Entrepreneur Personalities
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As the field of social entrepreneurship expands, so will demand for education, support services, and finance to facilitate these activities. Rigorous tools for evaluating social ventures’ potential, and founders’ capabilities, will be required. The Social Entrepreneur Quotient (SEQ) is a psychometric scale encompassing six dimensions: creativity, ethics, openness to change, risk-taking, autonomy, and achievement motivation. Through SEQ testing of an international sample of participants in a massive open online course on social enterprise, this paper places in conversation the significance of individual social entrepreneur traits and the contextually embedded nature of social enterprise in the Global North and South.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 265-287
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541013
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Author-Name: Philipp Erpf
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Erpf
Author-Name: Matthew J. Ripper
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ripper
Author-Name: Melina Castignetti
Author-X-Name-First: Melina
Author-X-Name-Last: Castignetti
Title: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship Based on Self-Evaluations of Organizational Leaders – Insights from an International Survey
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In this article, we measure dimensions of social entrepreneurship (organizational orientation, innovation, and entrepreneurial outcome) using the semantic differential technique. A sizable sample (N = 547) of organizational leaders from the regions of West Africa, East Africa, Scandinavia, and some countries from transitional areas rated a variety of statements regarding their organizations. As a result of a cluster analysis, we propose an explicit characterization: Social entrepreneurship organizations are those which offer social solutions (referred to as social orientation) that are marketable (referred to as market orientation). These organizations approach social problems using revolutionary innovation, which provides a meaningful and higher level of satisfaction for the participants in the system (referred to as creation of a new system). Finally, we discuss and contrast this characterization with the two other organizational forms emerging from a cluster analysis (social service providers and innovation promoters) as well as associated practices in the literature (e.g., corporate social responsibility and corporate philanthropy).
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 288-306
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541014
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Author-Name: Ghadah Alarifi
Author-X-Name-First: Ghadah
Author-X-Name-Last: Alarifi
Author-Name: Paul Robson
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Robson
Author-Name: Endrit Kromidha
Author-X-Name-First: Endrit
Author-X-Name-Last: Kromidha
Title: The Manifestation of Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Social Entrepreneurship Context
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This study extends theorisation of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in the social entrepreneurship context by introducing firm performance as a construct for examining social enterprises (SEs) EO. Drawing on EO and firm performance research indicating that EO is related to a better firm performance, this paper argues that EO in SEs is positively related to organisational performance. This research empirically studies 303 social enterprises in Saudi Arabia and develops three hypotheses that examine the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and social entrepreneurs’ firm performance. The results show that innovativeness and proactiveness, but not risk-taking, are positively associated with firm performance. Thus, whilst SEs cover a wide range of business activities there is generally a positive effect of EO across the contexts investigated. Also, this research found that EO can be used as a mechanism to overcome constraints imposed by limited resources in an environment where new opportunities rarely occur.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 307-327
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541015
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Author-Name: Farah Nabil Adel Al Taji
Author-X-Name-First: Farah Nabil Adel
Author-X-Name-Last: Al Taji
Author-Name: Irene Bengo
Author-X-Name-First: Irene
Author-X-Name-Last: Bengo
Title: The Distinctive Managerial Challenges of Hybrid Organizations: Which Skills are Required?
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How do the distinctive managerial challenges of hybrid organizations appear in practice? Which skills can be taught to respond to those challenges? These important questions are investigated based on, first, an in-depth study of social incubators/accelerators and social ventures (SVs). Second, building upon the ‘paradoxical leadership model for social entrepreneurs’, the study associates the specific challenges in practice with the model’s specific skills. This study has value not only for the social entrepreneurship (SE) literature but also for SE educators, social incubators/accelerators and social entrepreneurs who are all engaged in the capacity building of SVs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 328-345
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1543724
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Author-Name: Susana Bernardino
Author-X-Name-First: Susana
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernardino
Author-Name: J. Freitas Santos
Author-X-Name-First: J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Freitas Santos
Title: Network Structure of the Social Entrepreneur: An Analysis Based on Social Organization Features and Entrepreneurs’ Demographic Characteristics and Organizational Status
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Networks have been widely recognized as important to social entrepreneurship. This investigation aims to analyse how the structure of networks is influenced by the social organizations’ features and the entrepreneurs’ characteristics. After a review of pertinent literature on the topic, exploratory research is performed based on a quantitative approach. The primary data were collected through an online survey sent to Portuguese social organizations. The results confirm that networks have a substantial density in social entrepreneurship and that social organizations are surrounded either by strong or by weak ties. The investigation also reveals that networks’ formation is highly context-dependent, since its structure is influenced by the features of the social organization and the demographic and organizational status of its leaders.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 346-366
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1543725
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Author-Name: Inês Fernandes Thomaz
Author-X-Name-First: Inês Fernandes
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomaz
Author-Name: Margarida Catalão-Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Margarida
Author-X-Name-Last: Catalão-Lopes
Title: Improving the Mentoring Process for Social Entrepreneurship in Portugal: A Qualitative Study
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Social entrepreneurship aims to find innovative and self-sustainable solutions to social problems. The mentoring process is a crucial component, yet relatively less addressed, of social entrepreneurship. This paper analyses the different perspectives towards mentoring of the main actors in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Portugal, making use of interviews and focus groups and qualitative data analysis. The major challenges faced are identified and discussed. Recommendations to improve the mentoring process to new social entrepreneurs are withdrawn. Study findings are of value to all entities involved in the ecosystem.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 367-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1561497
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Author-Name: Abu H Ayob
Author-X-Name-First: Abu H
Author-X-Name-Last: Ayob
Title: Diversity, Trust and Social Entrepreneurship
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Social entrepreneurship (SE) differs from conventional entrepreneurship insofar as it emphasizes social outcomes ahead of economic returns. Research on the institutional effects on the former, however, has neglected to address specifically the impact of diversity, although it has been extensively studied in relation to the latter. This paper examines the effects of ethnic and religious heterogeneity, and trust as a moderator, on SE in 22 countries. The results suggest that an increase in ethnic diversity within countries leads to a higher engagement in SE. Also it is found that inter-religious trust attenuates the negative relationship between religious diversity and SE.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-12
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1399433
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Author-Name: Lance R. Newey
Author-X-Name-First: Lance R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Newey
Title: ‘Changing the System’: Compensatory versus Transformative Social Entrepreneurship
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‘Changing the system’ has long been a part of definitions of social entrepreneurship (SE). This paper focuses on capitalism as a global socio-economic system and understanding the role of SE in relation to this system. A distinction between two types of SE activity is introduced: compensatory and transformative. Compensatory SE compensates for market failures within the global capitalist system. By contrast, transformative SE specifically seeks to change the system of global capitalism. Using the examples of the alter-globalization movement and transition towns, the paper advances a conceptualization of transformative SE which contrasts assumptions with compensatory SE. This distinction aids to make the field of SE more truly global, multidisciplinary, representative and emancipatory.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 13-30
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1408671
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Author-Name: Prajakta Khare
Author-X-Name-First: Prajakta
Author-X-Name-Last: Khare
Author-Name: Kanchan Joshi
Author-X-Name-First: Kanchan
Author-X-Name-Last: Joshi
Title: Systems Approach to Map Determinants of a Social Enterprise's Impact: A Case from India
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This paper introduces a new approach to social entrepreneurship, namely systems map, to determine the path of achievement of a social enterprise's objectives. The paper uses the case-study approach. First, the factors that contribute towards the achievement of an enterprise's objectives are identified from the literature. The applicability of these factors to the case is discussed using primary data. Furthermore, the inter-linkages amongst these factors are determined and verified with data, with their final outcome being a social impact. Social impact-centric system map is the first such attempt to develop a tool for measurement of determinants of the progress of social enterprise.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 31-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1409254
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Author-Name: Rob Lubberink
Author-X-Name-First: Rob
Author-X-Name-Last: Lubberink
Author-Name: Vincent Blok
Author-X-Name-First: Vincent
Author-X-Name-Last: Blok
Author-Name: Johan van Ophem
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: van Ophem
Author-Name: Gerben van der Velde
Author-X-Name-First: Gerben
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Velde
Author-Name: Onno Omta
Author-X-Name-First: Onno
Author-X-Name-Last: Omta
Title: Innovation for Society: Towards a Typology of Developing Innovations by Social Entrepreneurs
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Social entrepreneurs develop important innovative solutions for complex societal challenges. This exploratory article provides a typology of different approaches by which social entrepreneurs develop such innovations. This typology is based on their engagement in anticipation, reflexivity, stakeholder inclusion and deliberation, responsiveness and knowledge management, during the development of their innovation. Following from quantitative analyses of data from self-assessment questionnaires and subsequent contextualization, the findings reveal four distinctive ways to successfully develop innovative solutions for societal problems. This article therefore contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by which social entrepreneurs develop social innovations.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 52-78
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1410212
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Author-Name: Martin Pelucha
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Pelucha
Author-Name: Jana Kourilova
Author-X-Name-First: Jana
Author-X-Name-Last: Kourilova
Author-Name: Viktor Kveton
Author-X-Name-First: Viktor
Author-X-Name-Last: Kveton
Title: Barriers of Social Entrepreneurship Development – A Case Study of the Czech Republic
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Social entrepreneurship (SE) began to be strongly supported in Central and Eastern European countries during the programming period of 2007–2013. However, the level of SE development still lags behind developed countries. The paper focuses on the identification of barriers to SE development in the Czech Republic and recommendations for policymaking. The value added is the adaptation of the Community of Practice on Inclusive Entrepreneurship methodology and its verification. A limited range of financial support options and a lack of interest of banks to improve the availability of loans were identified as main barriers to the development of SE.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 129-148
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1313303
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Author-Name: Wallis Motta
Author-X-Name-First: Wallis
Author-X-Name-Last: Motta
Author-Name: Paolo Dini
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Dini
Author-Name: Laura Sartori
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Sartori
Title: Self-Funded Social Impact Investment: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Sardex Mutual Credit System
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Sardex is a B2B electronic complementary currency and mutual credit system. It allows private funding to be endogenously generated within a geographically limited socio-economic context, rather than injected from exogenous sources, leading to a greater level of positive social impact. Sardex promotes stable and constructive integration of market activity with democratic institutions and socio-cultural values, and is hence identified with sustainable development. This paper presents a case study based on 29 semi-structured in-depth interviews of Sardex members. By drawing on monetary theory, sociology and anthropology, the paper argues that Sardex implements a form of self-funded social impact investment.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 149-164
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1321576
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Author-Name: Preeti Tiwari
Author-X-Name-First: Preeti
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiwari
Author-Name: Anil K. Bhat
Author-X-Name-First: Anil K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhat
Author-Name: Jyoti Tikoria
Author-X-Name-First: Jyoti
Author-X-Name-Last: Tikoria
Title: The role of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy on social entrepreneurial attitudes and social entrepreneurial intentions
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The present study aims at identifying the social entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students in Indian context by using the theory of planned behaviour as the research framework. A 50-item questionnaire was responded by 230 students who are enrolled in the universities in India. The data were collected by employing a systematic random sampling method. In total, 72% (N = 166) of the respondents were male and 31% (N = 64) were female and the average age of the respondents was 20 years. The questions measured emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, attitude towards becoming a social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurial intentions. The result shows that the proposed model in the present study explains 42% of the variance, explaining the social entrepreneurship intention. Both Emotional intelligence and self-efficacy showed the positive significant relationship with both attitude and social entrepreneurial intentions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 165-185
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1371628
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Author-Name: Marta Mas-Machuca
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Mas-Machuca
Author-Name: Maria Ballesteros-Sola
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Ballesteros-Sola
Author-Name: Adrián Guerrero
Author-X-Name-First: Adrián
Author-X-Name-Last: Guerrero
Title: Unveiling the mission statements in social enterprises: a comparative content analysis of US- vs. Spanish-based organizations
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Mission statements are widely considered an effective strategic and communication tool in all types of organization. Specifically, mission statements are also relevant in social enterprises. Our study examines and describes the mission statements in a sample of 117 Spanish social enterprises and compares them with previous research on US-based social enterprises’ mission statements. A manual content analysis of those mission statements was independently performed by three researchers. A two-sample t-test was performed to test the difference between these two independent US-based and Spanish samples. Our findings suggest that the degree of development of Spanish social enterprises’ mission statements is still in an embryonic state. Additionally, results show that there are significant differences between the components of the social enterprises’ mission statements in Spain and the USA. Mission statements in Spain tend to emphasize customers, products, services and the company philosophy. This study has implications for practitioners, as it highlights the need to elevate the quality of Spanish social enterprises’ mission statements, as well as for researchers, as we uncover future research opportunities that are context specific.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 186-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1371629
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Author-Name: Sorawadee Srivetbodee
Author-X-Name-First: Sorawadee
Author-X-Name-Last: Srivetbodee
Author-Name: Barbara Igel
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Igel
Author-Name: Suthisak Kraisornsuthasinee
Author-X-Name-First: Suthisak
Author-X-Name-Last: Kraisornsuthasinee
Title: Creating Social Value Through Social Enterprise Marketing: Case Studies from Thailand's Food-Focused Social Entrepreneurs
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Marketing not only creates economic value for a social enterprise, it also must create social value. This paper adopts a case research to five Thailand's food social entrepreneurs to examine how a marketing strategy creates social value. The findings revealed that the majority of them addressed a social problem in a marketing strategy to benefit producers and society. Key contributions include proposing and validating a holistic set of propositions of social enterprise marketing with social value generation. Recommendations for social enterprise marketers and policy-makers are also provided so that they can improve a marketing strategy to address social problems.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 201-224
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1371630
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Author-Name: Inés Alegre
Author-X-Name-First: Inés
Author-X-Name-Last: Alegre
Author-Name: Susanna Kislenko
Author-X-Name-First: Susanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kislenko
Author-Name: Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent
Author-X-Name-First: Jasmina
Author-X-Name-Last: Berbegal-Mirabent
Title: Organized Chaos: Mapping the Definitions of Social Entrepreneurship
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Over the last 20 years, social entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of researchers from a wide variety of disciplines which has generated a great range of definitions of the term social entrepreneurship. This paper maps the existing definitions, using a citation map and cluster analysis methods. Studying 307 documents in total, the analysis reveals that – contrary to what has been commonly believed – there does, in fact, exist widespread consensus within the academic community on the definition and meaning of the term social entrepreneurship and it is primarily centred on the combination of social and financial goals, community ideals and innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 248-264
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1371631
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Author-Name: Sascha Bjarnø Olinsson
Author-X-Name-First: Sascha Bjarnø
Author-X-Name-Last: Olinsson
Title: Social Entrepreneurship-Committing Theory to Practice
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Social entrepreneurship is often presented in the literature as the key to solving many of this world’s persistent social problems. The role of the social entrepreneur is described as fundamental in any social entrepreneurial venture. However, there are few natural-born social entrepreneurs and a lack of knowledge concerning the process of developing a social entrepreneurial venture. Recent studies question the all-important role of the social entrepreneur and instead recognize a collective process of innovation. This study developed a first attempt at a social entrepreneurial management tool which can reproduce the processual thinking of the social entrepreneur. In applying empirical data from social entrepreneurship case studies to a modified version of the analytical planning tool known as the Problem and Objective tree, this study addressed the lack of knowledge concerning the social entrepreneurial development process. The results suggest that the tool can assist social entrepreneurial networks, meaning a collective effort by stakeholders within any given community, develop social entrepreneurial ventures in environments without a ‘natural born’ social entrepreneur.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 225-247
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1375547
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Author-Name: Sandro Battisti
Author-X-Name-First: Sandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Battisti
Title: Digital Social Entrepreneurs as Bridges in Public–Private Partnerships
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Developing innovative projects towards the achievement of the socio-economic impact of a technology is a challenge for the researchers, industry, and policymakers. This research develops a new model to identify the key roles in the innovation process by analyzing 10 projects developed and managed by public–private partnerships. This research describes the role of people (i.e. innovation managers, lead-users, embedded lead-users, social entrepreneurs, technology-reflective individuals and online community leaders) in the social innovation process. The social entrepreneur is the key role acting as a bridge between innovation managers and technology-reflective individuals. Furthermore, reflective people such as young couples with kids, elderly or Millennials are fundamental for the impact creation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 135-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541006
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Author-Name: Zeno C. S. Leung
Author-X-Name-First: Zeno C. S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Leung
Author-Name: Amy P. Y. Ho
Author-X-Name-First: Amy P. Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ho
Author-Name: Linda Y. N. Tjia
Author-X-Name-First: Linda Y. N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tjia
Author-Name: Raymond K. Y. Tam
Author-X-Name-First: Raymond K. Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tam
Author-Name: K. T. Chan
Author-X-Name-First: K. T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Author-Name: Michael K. W. Lai
Author-X-Name-First: Michael K. W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lai
Title: Social Impacts of Work Integration Social Enterprise in Hong Kong – Workfare and Beyond
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In 2017, there are over six hundreds social enterprises in Hong Kong. Among them, approximately 70% are work integration social enterprises (WISEs) primarily aiming at creating employment and/or providing vocational training for the disadvantaged groups. Impact assessment of these WISEs is a growing concern in the society. In this article, the authors review major types of impact assessment approaches and three categories are delineated – outcome-based, structured-based and process-based approaches. Through the application of one particular outcome-based approach, Social Return on Investment (SROI), onto four invited local WISEs, the social impacts induced by selected WISEs and their significances are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 159-176
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541007
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Author-Name: Ira Puspadewi
Author-X-Name-First: Ira
Author-X-Name-Last: Puspadewi
Author-Name: Budi W. Soetjipto
Author-X-Name-First: Budi W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Soetjipto
Author-Name: Sari Wahyuni
Author-X-Name-First: Sari
Author-X-Name-Last: Wahyuni
Author-Name: Setyo H. Wijayanto
Author-X-Name-First: Setyo H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wijayanto
Title: Managing Paradox for the Sustainability of Social Enterprises: An Empirical Study of Forestry Community Cooperatives in Indonesia
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Social enterprises (SEs) have a paradoxical nature in serving economic and social objectives and meeting them is essential in managing SEs effectively. This study surveys 561 senior executives of 189 forestry cooperatives in Indonesia to assess whether these SE leaders demonstrate such behaviours and to establish their origins. Results demonstrate that the need for cognition and environmental complexity determine the cognitive complexity of SE leaders and environmental complexity is more dominant than the need for cognition. This indicates that cognitive complexity is externally rather than internally driven and that leaders’ commercial and pro-social behaviours raise sustainability of their cooperatives. Cognitive complexity instigates both behaviours.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 177-192
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541008
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Author-Name: Eric Kong
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Kong
Title: Harnessing and advancing knowledge in social enterprises: Theoretical and operational challenges in the refugee settlement experience
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A better understanding of the role of social enterprises in the refugee settlement experience likely assists in transferring refugees’ prior labour market experience into the receiving-country’s labour market and facilitating further knowledge creation for life satisfaction and self-reliance for refugees. A qualitative narrative inquiry approach was adopted to identify the knowledge and learning activities addressing social issues in social enterprises.The paper serves as a milestone in examining the role of social enterprises in harnessing and advancing knowledge in refugee settlement experience.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 193-210
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541009
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Author-Name: Hilla Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Hilla
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Author-Name: Oshrit Kaspi-Baruch
Author-X-Name-First: Oshrit
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaspi-Baruch
Author-Name: Hagai Katz
Author-X-Name-First: Hagai
Author-X-Name-Last: Katz
Title: The social entrepreneur puzzle: the background, personality and motivation of Israeli social entrepreneurs
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This study compares the personality, motivation and leadership background of 104 Israeli social entrepreneurs and 85 business entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are higher in extraversion and openness to experience, lower in managerial personality characteristics, and more driven by ideology rather than by capital gains. Social entrepreneurs also have stronger early ideological and leadership training. Multiple regression analysis reveals that a relatively robust and persistent set of internal psychological drivers prompt a search for specific experiences that are related to leadership roles and social change orientations, including social entrepreneurship and the relevant leading experiences in adolescence and young adulthood.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 211-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541010
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Author-Name: Sergio Sparviero
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Sparviero
Title: The Case for a Socially Oriented Business Model Canvas: The Social Enterprise Model Canvas
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The main purpose of this article is to introduce the Social Enterprise Model Canvas (SEMC), a Business Model Canvas (BMC) conceived for designing the organizational settings of social enterprises, for resolving the mission measurement paradox, and for meeting the strategy, legitimacy and governance challenges. The SEMC and the analysis that explains its features are of interest to academics concerned with the study of social entrepreneurship because they offer a new analytical tool that is particularly useful for untangling and comparing different forms of social enterprises. Also, it is of interest to social entrepreneurs, because the SEMC is a platform that can be used to prevent ‘mission drifts’ that might result from problems emerging from the mismanagement of such challenges. The arguments presented are grounded on scientific literature from multiple disciplines and fields, on a critical review of the BMC, and on a case study. The main features of SEMC that makes it an alternative to the BMC are attention to social value and building blocks that take into consideration non-targeted stakeholders, principles of governance, the involvement of customers and targeted beneficiaries, mission values, short-term objectives, impact and output measures.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 232-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541011
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Author-Name: Jeffrey Gauthier
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Gauthier
Author-Name: David Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Author-Name: Chris R. Meyer
Author-X-Name-First: Chris R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Meyer
Title: Top Management Team Characteristics and Social Value Creation
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This article explores the implications of top management team (TMT) diversity and identity in fostering an organizational environment that promotes social value creation. Upper echelon theory is integrated with research on social entrepreneurship to develop propositions concerning the relationship between TMT characteristics and social value creation. In doing so, this article responds to calls to examine the role of group efforts in creating social value and offers contributions to both upper echelon theory and social entrepreneurship research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 252-263
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541012
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Author-Name: Benjamin Gidron
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gidron
Title: The Dual Hybridity of Social Enterprises for Marginalized Populations
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This paper focuses on an analysis of market-oriented social enterprises providing employment opportunities for marginalized populations as hybrid organizations, needing to balance their divergent institutional logics. The paper introduces a welfare angle into the discourse on the topic to complement the business administration focus in the literature. It challenges the traditional separation between the world of regular work and the world of welfare and provides conceptual frameworks that enable certain marginalized populations to be involved in market-oriented social enterprises and consequently integrate in the community. It provides both a rationale for the existence of market-oriented social enterprises and an analysis of their organizational characteristics. That analysis is based on a conceptualization of a dual hybridity of these entities: The hybridity of form that has to do with structure and can be seen as a combination between a for-profit and a non-profit organization and the hybridity of substance, which emanates from the traditional negation between the business and the welfare paradigms and can be seen as a combination between a for-profit workplace and a human service agency.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-13
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1207700
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Author-Name: Yanto Chandra
Author-X-Name-First: Yanto
Author-X-Name-Last: Chandra
Title: Social Entrepreneurship as Institutional-Change Work: A Corpus Linguistics Analysis
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How do social entrepreneurs employ language to bring about a change in the structure of society and institutions? Drawing on discourse as the main epistemology in institutional theory, this research applies corpus linguistics (CL) – a relatively new approach in studying discourse – to identify the institutional-change work performed by social entrepreneurs. By applying CL on a small, specialized corpus of a Chinese social enterprise (SE) that offers taxi services to a specialty market – elders and physically disabled residents – and has institutionalized wheelchair accessible transportation in Hong Kong (China), this research found 17 discourse orientations (i.e., problem, difficulty, empowerment, beneficiary, altruistic, social process, economic, opportunity, sustainability, partnership, resource, solution, government-as-enabler, social business identity, change-making, mission, and impact) that can be aggregated into five meta discourses: problematization, empowerment, marketization, resource mobilization, and publicness. It also reveals the influence of collaborative efforts performed by volunteers, media, educational institutions and the State in institutionalizing and legitimizing wheelchair accessible public transport and social enterprises. This study also uncovers the influence of prior institutional context on the institutionalization of SE. This research suggests new avenues to better integrate social work, public administration, and sustainability research – cognate disciplines at the fringes of SE – to inform future SE research. Finally, this study articulates the promise of corpus linguistics as a primary or supplementary method for future SE discourse research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 14-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1233133
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Author-Name: Chris Giacomantonio
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Giacomantonio
Title: Grant-Maximizing but not Money-Making: A Simple Decision-Tree Analysis for Social Impact Bonds
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Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a form of impact investing that challenge traditional investor and government rationalities in financing or funding social services. SIBs are often presented optimistically as a self-evident ‘win-win’ for public commissioners and potential non-governmental investors in public services. While the use of SIBs has grown recently, SIBs have not been used as extensively as many proponents expected, raising questions around whether investor and government interests can be adequately aligned. A decision tree is developed that explains why SIBs may not appeal to investors and governments as much as initially hoped by their proponents, specifically addressing the value of SIBs in relation to alternative investments available to governments and investors. The decision tree shows that SIB-financed initiatives that are rational choices for governments are unlikely to be attractive to investors (and vice versa). This explains the ‘SIB paradox’ and why it has proved difficult to create a vigorous investment market for SIBs. This issue remains even where efforts are made to reduce transactions costs or investor risk in SIB-funded initiatives. The analysis also suggests that SIBs may offer philanthropic and charity funders rather than private investors a way to make the most of their limited granting capital.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 47-66
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2016.1271348
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Author-Name: Dominique Jozef Alfons Smeets
Author-X-Name-First: Dominique Jozef Alfons
Author-X-Name-Last: Smeets
Title: Collaborative Learning Processes in Social Impact Bonds: A Case Study from the Netherlands
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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) bring together organizations from various sectors, with different organizational logics. Successful cross-sector collaboration, therefore, is challenging. In this paper, the collaborative learning process between partners of the SIB The Colour Kitchen (The Netherlands) is analysed. By analysing a good practice case, this paper shows (1) how collaborative governance theory helps to understand the dynamics of an SIB partnership, (2) provides insight into theoretical and empirical favourable conditions and actions for collaboration in an SIB, and (3) illustrates the complexity of SIBs and shows why such a normative proposition is still not widely practised.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 67-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1299034
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Author-Name: Sheela Pandey
Author-X-Name-First: Sheela
Author-X-Name-Last: Pandey
Author-Name: Saurabh Lall
Author-X-Name-First: Saurabh
Author-X-Name-Last: Lall
Author-Name: Sanjay K. Pandey
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjay K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pandey
Author-Name: Sucheta Ahlawat
Author-X-Name-First: Sucheta
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlawat
Title: The Appeal of Social Accelerators: What do Social Entrepreneurs Value?
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Are the most-publicized benefits of social accelerators also the ones most valued by social entrepreneurs? Does the social entrepreneur human capital – such as education, professional background and experience – shape the attractiveness of value propositions of different social accelerator benefits? These important questions are examined in this study by drawing upon a large and unique database of more than 4,000 social entrepreneurs worldwide who have applied to social accelerator programmes. Study findings are of value not only to social entrepreneurship scholars but also to social entrepreneurs, social accelerators, funders of accelerators and other entities in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 88-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1299035
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Author-Name: Karen Maas
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Maas
Author-Name: Cecilia Grieco
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Grieco
Title: Distinguishing game changers from boastful charlatans: Which social enterprises measure their impact?
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Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a beautiful and growing vehicle in society to tackle social problems in innovative ways. Unfortunately, existing research has failed to address to what extent SEs are truly living up to their promises. In result, surprisingly little is known about the actual success of SEs in creating social impact. Even more elementary, it is hard to know whether SEs are measuring and monitoring their social impact. Using a worldwide sample of 3.194 SEs from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data this study provides unique insights, as it represents the first global and harmonized assessment of the practice of impact measurement of SEs. Findings show that about 33% of the SEs in the sample do measure their impact. Furthermore, the results show a significant positive relation between economic mission, size and innovativeness of the SE and impact measurement. The relation between social mission and impact measurement show a significant negative result. These results can be seen as a starting point in investigating the actual practice of SEs involvement in impact measurement and opens up interesting avenues for future research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 110-128
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1304435
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Author-Name: Rasheda L. Weaver
Author-X-Name-First: Rasheda L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weaver
Title: Re-Conceptualizing Social Value: Applying the Capability Approach in Social Enterprise Research
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In an effort to develop a unified perspective of the term social value, this paper argues that it should be viewed through the lens of the capability approach. A sample of 34 empirical research articles that apply the capability approach are examined to increase understanding about how it may be applied to measure social value. Findings reveal that the capability approach is commonly used in empirical research for: human well-being assessment; core needs identification; and measurement of capability dispersion. This paper argues that the capability approach is particularly appropriate for measuring capability dispersion, which most relates to social value creation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 79-93
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1430607
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Author-Name: Matteo Giuliano Caroli
Author-X-Name-First: Matteo Giuliano
Author-X-Name-Last: Caroli
Author-Name: Eleonora Fracassi
Author-X-Name-First: Eleonora
Author-X-Name-Last: Fracassi
Author-Name: Riccardo Maiolini
Author-X-Name-First: Riccardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Maiolini
Author-Name: Silvia Carnini Pulino
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Carnini Pulino
Title: Exploring Social Innovation Components and Attributes: A Taxonomy Proposal
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Previous research suggests that the body of Social Innovation literature is increasing in terms of scholarly contributions. The field is described as phenomenally based and hypothetically fragmented, with a set of emerging theoretical contributions filling the gaps. This article explores the domain of Social Innovation identifying its principal characteristics through a taxonomy proposal.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 94-109
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1448296
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Author-Name: Catalina Nicolás
Author-X-Name-First: Catalina
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicolás
Author-Name: Alicia Rubio
Author-X-Name-First: Alicia
Author-X-Name-Last: Rubio
Author-Name: Ana Fernández-Laviada
Author-X-Name-First: Ana
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernández-Laviada
Title: Cognitive Determinants of Social Entrepreneurship: Variations According to the Degree of Economic Development
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A social enterprise besides mobilizing resources and generating employment responds to social problems usually ignored by institutions. We study key factors that may influence social enterprise creation. Particularly, we analyze the social entrepreneur's profile taking into account economic development and comparing results with non-social entrepreneurs. This will allow to design more effective policies that encourage the creation of social enterprises. Using a sample of 12,061 social entrepreneurs in 59 countries in different stages of economic development from the database of the GEM Project of the year 2015. The results point out that the influence of the variables varies with the level of economic development of the country analyzed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 154-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1452280
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Author-Name: Juan Pablo Román-Calderón
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Román-Calderón
Author-Name: Camilo Franco-Ruiz
Author-X-Name-First: Camilo
Author-X-Name-Last: Franco-Ruiz
Author-Name: Adalgisa Battistelli
Author-X-Name-First: Adalgisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Battistelli
Author-Name: Carlo Odoardi
Author-X-Name-First: Carlo
Author-X-Name-Last: Odoardi
Title: European Social Enterprises, Still an Epitome of Benevolent Enterprises? The Employees’ Perspective
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This paper presents a comparative study in terms of two ethical climate dimensions and affective organizational commitment. The employees of a confederation of social enterprises and a socially sustainable firm participated in the study. The multi-group exploratory factor approach was used to analyse the data. The findings of the study suggest that differences that exist in self-interest and social responsibility climates are not clear when comparing social enterprises and sustainable firms. Furthermore, the results showed that the size of the effect of these two types of ethical climates on affective organizational commitment varies from one type of organization to the other.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 169-179
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1452281
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Author-Name: Chaturong Napathorn
Author-X-Name-First: Chaturong
Author-X-Name-Last: Napathorn
Title: Which HR Bundles are Utilized in Social Enterprises? The Case of Social Enterprises in Thailand
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This paper bridges the literatures on social enterprises and human resource management to examine the human resource (HR) bundles utilized by social enterprises and how these HR bundles are different from those used by the typical business enterprises described in the literature. It applies a cross-case analysis of five social enterprises across industries in Thailand. The case study evidence in this paper draws on semi-structured interviews with each social enterprise's founders or managers and employees, field visits to each social enterprise and a review of archival documents and web-based reports and resources. Based on these five case studies, this paper proposes that the HR bundles utilized by social enterprises consist of the following: recruitment and selection via sub-stream or alternative recruitment channels, paying more attention to on-the-job training than to classroom training, focusing more on intrinsic rewards than on extrinsic rewards and paternalistic styles of employee relations with no labour unions. These HR bundles are different from those used by typical business enterprises in that the latter group of enterprises primarily focuses on recruitment and selection via mainstream recruitment channels, training via classroom training and several other types of employee development methods including on-the-job training, both external and intrinsic rewards, and systematic conflict resolution process. It, however, is possible that both typical business enterprises and social enterprises can achieve the same objective of becoming high-performance organizations based on different types of HR bundles. That said, the concept of ‘equifinality’ is applicable in both typical business enterprises and social enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 110-131
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1452282
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Author-Name: Alex Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: A General Theory of Social Impact Accounting: Materiality, Uncertainty and Empowerment
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This paper argues that social impact accounting is different from financial accounting practice in terms of two key materiality issues: the uncertain nature of its material data; the empowering processes by which materiality is established. Drawing upon some detailed empirical analysis, this paper develops a new general theory of social impact accounting to suggest that successful social impact accounting processes both give voice to service users and produce more accurate performance data. The paper advances research in both social impact accounting and in critical approaches to accounting more generally.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 132-153
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1452785
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Author-Name: Sheila Killian
Author-X-Name-First: Sheila
Author-X-Name-Last: Killian
Author-Name: Philip O’Regan
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Regan
Title: Taxation and Social Enterprise: Constraint or Incentive for the Common Good
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When governments use tax policy to motivate activities of social value, incentives are commonly targeted at non-profits or charities. For-profit businesses meanwhile are primarily seen by policy-makers as generators of tax revenue. Social enterprise, characterized by innovation and hybridity, can combine for-profit and social impact aims in a single entity. A tax system that anticipates a binary world of charities and capitalism may be unable to accommodate this, and so may function as a constraint on the contribution of social enterprise to the common good. This article reviews tax policy and the experiences of social entrepreneurs to explore this issue.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1517103
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Author-Name: Alexandr Asmalovskij
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandr
Author-X-Name-Last: Asmalovskij
Author-Name: Tomáš Sadílek
Author-X-Name-First: Tomáš
Author-X-Name-Last: Sadílek
Author-Name: Vít Hinčica
Author-X-Name-First: Vít
Author-X-Name-Last: Hinčica
Author-Name: Michala Mizerová
Author-X-Name-First: Michala
Author-X-Name-Last: Mizerová
Title: Performance of Social Enterprises in the Czech Republic
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The paper investigates how Czech social economy has currently been performing. In the text, the authors mainly focus on an analysis of various financial indicators of social enterprises in the Czech Republic as well as on different relations between these indicators. The performed analysis comprises descriptive statistics, correlation matrix using Pearson correlation with a two-tailed test of significance for dependent and independent variables, and multiple regressions for significantly dependent variables. The main outcome of the research reveals that a high variance is present between the given SEs in productivity and debt-to-equity ratio.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 19-29
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1521865
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Author-Name: Elena Dowin Kennedy
Author-X-Name-First: Elena
Author-X-Name-Last: Dowin Kennedy
Author-Name: Nardia Haigh
Author-X-Name-First: Nardia
Author-X-Name-Last: Haigh
Title: Forging Ahead or Grasping at Straws? The Affects and Outcomes of Social Enterprise Legal Structure Change
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Cases of legal structure change within social enterprises were examined using case study and qualitative comparative analyses to understand how legal structure change altered core business model components and subsequent outcomes for survival. The article identifies motivations for legal structure change (opportunity, weakness and threat), tracks changes made to business model components (value proposition, value creation and value capture), and examines post-change survival. Findings indicate that the business model component altered depends on the motivation for legal structure change and that survival favours enterprises that build value creation and value capture components first, while others enter a downward spiral from which it is difficult to recover.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 30-54
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541002
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Author-Name: Philipp Kruse
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruse
Author-Name: Dominika Wach
Author-X-Name-First: Dominika
Author-X-Name-Last: Wach
Author-Name: Sílvia Costa
Author-X-Name-First: Sílvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Costa
Author-Name: Juan Antonio Moriano
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Antonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Moriano
Title: Values Matter, Don’t They? – Combining Theory of Planned Behavior and Personal Values as Predictors of Social Entrepreneurial Intention
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In the face of growing social inequality, social entrepreneurship (SE) is considered to be a sustainable way to account for unmet social needs. Research acknowledges that SE-intention is an important prerequisite for SE-activity but there is only limited knowledge about the mechanisms of SE-intention formation. Despite theories with a cognitive focus like the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) having been shown to be able to predict SE-intention, the influence of an individual’s goal orientations, i.e. one`s personal values, on the choice to pursue a career as a social entrepreneur has been largely neglected. By integrating the TPB and Basic Human Values Theory, we investigate the mechanisms through which personal values are related to SE-intentions. Structural-Equation-Analyses with a sample of German university students (N = 1,326) yielded positive direct effects for the personal value dimensions of openness and self-transcendence, and negative direct effects for conservation and self-enhancement on SE-intention. Furthermore, indirect effects of self-transcendence and self-enhancement via the TPB-components emerged. Further research is needed to consolidate our findings and examine potential intercultural differences of value influences on SE-intention formation. The practical implications are that the educators of potential social entrepreneurs should invest more effort in securing a fit of personal values and the values that reinforce SE. Furthermore, our results highlight that making women aware of the possibility of combining social and financial value goals in SE could increase the number of female entrepreneurs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 55-83
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541003
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Author-Name: Jamie Levine Daniel
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie
Author-X-Name-Last: Levine Daniel
Author-Name: Matthew Galasso
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Galasso
Title: Revenue Embeddedness and Competing Institutional Logics: How Nonprofit Leaders Connect Earned Revenue to Mission and Organizational Identity
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The increasing reliance on earned revenue displayed by nonprofits in the US has raised mission-related organizational identity concerns. However, the effect of a market-driven activity on mission-driven service may vary based on revenue embeddedness: the activity’s connection to the organization’s mission. This study draws on the competing logics of isomorphism and resource dependence to examine how the pursuit of earned revenue affects the organization’s perception of its mission and projection of identity. The authors examine how leaders use language to connect market to mission, presents additional dimensions of embeddedness, and offers propositions for future research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 84-107
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541004
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Author-Name: Byungku Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Byungku
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Louise Kelly
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelly
Title: Cultural leadership ideals and social entrepreneurship: an international study
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Country-level contexts can be important drivers that explain cross-national differences in individuals’ social entrepreneurship decisions. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of favourable cultural contexts that influence individuals to pursue social entrepreneurship. Our findings confirmed that cross-national social entrepreneurship differences can be explained in part by considering cultural leadership ideals at the country-level. Specifically, the country context of low self-protective cultural leadership ideal had a positive impact on individual decisions to pursue social entrepreneurship. The results provide a theoretical and practical basis to understand the influence of the contextual factor on social entrepreneurship.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 108-128
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541005
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Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 129-132
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1519310
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Author-Name: Cris Bravo Monge
Author-X-Name-First: Cris Bravo
Author-X-Name-Last: Monge
Title: Identifying Cross-Country Key Drivers of Social Entrepreneurial Activity
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This study investigated the correlates of broad and narrow social entrepreneurship activity and 83 socio economic indicators among a sample of countries for which sufficient data exists. The study identified that broad and narrow social entrepreneurial activities are predicted through different drivers. Broad social entrepreneurial activity is driven by labor force with tertiary education, growth of carbon dioxide emissions, long-term unemployment, and percentage of stock of immigrants in a country. The narrowly defined social entrepreneurial activity is driven by taxes on income, profit and capital gains, growth of carbon dioxide emissions, and perception of standard of living in a country.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 181-199
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1467333
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Author-Name: Jaimee Felice Caringal-Go
Author-X-Name-First: Jaimee Felice
Author-X-Name-Last: Caringal-Go
Author-Name: Ma. Regina M. Hechanova
Author-X-Name-First: Ma. Regina M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hechanova
Title: Motivational Needs and Intent to Stay of Social Enterprise Workers
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Using a needs theory framework, this study investigated motivations of social enterprise workers and their intent to stay using a sequential mixed exploratory design. Factor analysis of survey data elicited two factors corresponding to intrinsic and extrinsic needs. The extent to which these needs are met predicted intent to stay for both staff level employees and managers/founders. However, results showed differences between job levels on the extent to which intrinsic needs are met. Unique needs that appear to be an artifact of the nature of social enterprises and context are examined. Human resource management implications for social enterprises are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 200-214
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1468352
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Author-Name: Rajesh Jayakar Pai
Author-X-Name-First: Rajesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Jayakar Pai
Author-Name: Bhakti More
Author-X-Name-First: Bhakti
Author-X-Name-Last: More
Title: Sustaining social entrepreneurship through networks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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This paper’s purpose is to elaborate the role of networks in the social entrepreneurial process and their positive outcomes. Social networks contribute to the establishment, sustenance and expansion of the small- and medium-sized social entrepreneurship projects in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The research design and methodology are based on the principles of phenomenology coupled with insights from 10 social entrepreneurs regarding the role of networks in their journey of a start-up’s sustenance and expansion. Findings indicate that networks support resource management and help in building social ties and social capital, and unveil the core of social entrepreneurship to suggest an institutional framework that can encourage the youth in the region to perceive their ventures for the benefit of the society.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 215-233
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1498376
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Author-Name: Kai Hockerts
Author-X-Name-First: Kai
Author-X-Name-Last: Hockerts
Title: The Effect of Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Education on Intention Formation in Students
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This paper posits that social entrepreneurship education can increase the propensity of students to launch social enterprises through a process of experiential learning in which students co-create shared communities of practice. Data from 175 participants in Master level elective courses indicates that participation in social entrepreneurship courses increases self-efficacy, perceived social support and social entrepreneurial intentions. No statistically significant effects were found for empathy or moral obligation. In addition, drawing on a sample of 265 participants in a massive open online course, it was demonstrated that the more students engage in experiential learning activities, the larger the observed effects.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 234-256
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1498377
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Author-Name: Joanne L. Scillitoe
Author-X-Name-First: Joanne L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Scillitoe
Author-Name: Latha Poonamallee
Author-X-Name-First: Latha
Author-X-Name-Last: Poonamallee
Author-Name: Simy Joy
Author-X-Name-First: Simy
Author-X-Name-Last: Joy
Title: Balancing Market Versus Social Strategic Orientations in Socio-tech Ventures as Part of the Technology Innovation Adoption Process – Examples from the Global Healthcare Sector
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Socio-tech ventures – entrepreneurial firms that aim to create social value by employing technological innovation as part of their key value proposition – are a rapidly growing category of organizations. They occupy a place of intersection between technology ventures and social enterprises and present an important and emerging area of research. Socio-tech ventures face the challenge of balancing social and market strategic orientations similar to social enterprises. However, their simultaneous status as technology ventures is likely to further complicate this balancing act and remains an unexplored dynamic in the extant literature. Strategic orientation is an important consideration since it impacts the activities and resource allocations of a venture that can influence its performance.Drawing from the technology innovation and technological and social entrepreneurship literature, this paper addresses this gap by developing a conceptual model and propositions, with examples from the global health sector, about factors related to the technology adoption process that can influence the social-market strategic orientation balance of socio-tech ventures. This model considers the influence of the tenure and innovation stance of venture founders/managers, the complexity and trialability of the technological innovation, the legal structure of the venture, and interconnectedness within the social networks.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 257-287
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1498378
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Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 288-293
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1494778
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Author-Name: Janthorn Sinthupundaja
Author-X-Name-First: Janthorn
Author-X-Name-Last: Sinthupundaja
Author-Name: Y. Kohda
Author-X-Name-First: Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohda
Author-Name: N. Chiadamrong
Author-X-Name-First: N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiadamrong
Title: Examining Capabilities of Social Entrepreneurship for Shared Value Creation
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Social entrepreneurship can be represented as a transitional vehicle that serves for creating shared value among an entrepreneur, society and the environment. Social entrepreneurship is a sub-discipline within entrepreneurship that remains a poorly-understood complex phenomenon. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was used to empirically analyze the complex relationships among a set of capabilities (namely mission-driven, stakeholder, cross-sector collaboration and environmental management) and social entrepreneurship. Their relationships and effects on the shared value in social, environmental and economic dimensions were analyzed based on data from 22 social enterprises in Thailand. Findings show that there was no single condition that necessarily and solely contributed to high or low social entrepreneurship and shared value. However, a sufficiency analysis revealed several combinations of conditions that sufficiently produced high and low expected outcomes. Because of the special characteristics of social entrepreneurship, the findings highlight the importance of fsQCA for finding different combinations of conditions leading to the same outcomes. In addition, the social and environmental values were found to be a source of competitive advantage and superior economic value that enable the identification and creation of new market opportunities.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1543726
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Author-Name: Carlos Capella-Peris
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
Author-X-Name-Last: Capella-Peris
Author-Name: Jesús Gil-Gómez
Author-X-Name-First: Jesús
Author-X-Name-Last: Gil-Gómez
Author-Name: Manuel Martí-Puig
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Martí-Puig
Author-Name: Paola Ruíz-Bernardo
Author-X-Name-First: Paola
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruíz-Bernardo
Title: Development and Validation of a Scale to Assess Social Entrepreneurship Competency in Higher Education
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This paper proposes an instrument to assess social entrepreneurship competency in higher education (SECS). 19 Features of social entrepreneurship competency were identified. The pilot test (n = 497) confirmed the validity and reliability of the SECS. Exploratory factor analysis proposed a set of categories consistent with the initial approach. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable relationships among the scale categories and items, while the fit indices suggested that the data fit adequately to the default model. Pearson’s test verified significant, positive correlations among the revised categories in all cases. Therefore, the scale carries the potential to contribute to social entrepreneurship research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 23-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1545686
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Author-Name: Aki Harima
Author-X-Name-First: Aki
Author-X-Name-Last: Harima
Author-Name: Julia Freudenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Freudenberg
Title: Co-Creation of Social Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Refugees
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This explorative study examines how local and refugee entrepreneurs team up on social entrepreneurial initiatives and combine their strengths and resources to construct, evaluate and pursue new opportunities. We interviewed social venture teams including both groups in a social entrepreneurship accelerator in Germany. The findings suggest that such mixed social venture teams can overcome the liabilities of the foreignness of entrepreneurial refugee individuals while gaining legitimacy in both host societies and the refugee community.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 40-64
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1561498
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Author-Name: Anastacia Mamabolo
Author-X-Name-First: Anastacia
Author-X-Name-Last: Mamabolo
Author-Name: Kerrin Myres
Author-X-Name-First: Kerrin
Author-X-Name-Last: Myres
Title: Performance Measurement in Emerging Market Social Enterprises using a Balanced Scorecard
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Performance measurement in social enterprises is important; however, up to now, there is no agreement on which tool to use, especially for those in emerging markets. Therefore, this study used a balanced scorecard to quantitatively measure performance of 446 social enterprises in South Africa. The findings show that the adapted perspectives of a balanced scorecard such as customer, organizational learning and growth, finance and internal processes can be used as performance indicators. This study developed and tested an adapted balanced scorecard that can be used as a performance instrument for enterprises that do not have specific measurement tools.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 65-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1561499
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Author-Name: Handyanto Widjojo
Author-X-Name-First: Handyanto
Author-X-Name-Last: Widjojo
Author-Name: Sandy Gunawan
Author-X-Name-First: Sandy
Author-X-Name-Last: Gunawan
Title: Indigenous Tradition: An Overlooked Encompassing-Factor in Social Entrepreneurship
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The objective of this study is to explore and elaborate indigenous tradition as a trigger of social entrepreneurship in specific contexts. Content analysis is conducted regarding the transcripts of four short documentary films and six in-depth interviews. The analysis is performed on the influence of indigenous tradition to community-based social entrepreneurship. The findings demonstrate the role of indigenous tradition as an important factor in Indonesian social entrepreneurship. The implication of this research could be considered by stakeholders to explore indigenous tradition as an initiative for developing social entrepreneurship in rural areas.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 88-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1579752
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Author-Name: Abel Duarte Alonso
Author-X-Name-First: Abel
Author-X-Name-Last: Duarte Alonso
Author-Name: Seng Kok
Author-X-Name-First: Seng
Author-X-Name-Last: Kok
Author-Name: Seamus O’Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Seamus
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Brien
Title: ‘Profit Is Not a Dirty Word’: Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development
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This exploratory study proposes a theoretical framework based on Max Weber's types of rationality to understand the motivations for and operationalization of social entrepreneurship (SE), drawing from the case of Homebaked, an organization operating in Liverpool, UK. Face-to-face interviews with nine Homebaked's members, including management, were complemented by several on-site observations, industry and consulting report reviews. A juxtaposition between entrepreneurship and SE emerged, in that for-profit principles were implemented to drive and achieve objectives of social causes. From a theoretical perspective, a strong connection was revealed between the findings and all four types of rationality, as postulated by Kalberg.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 111-133
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1579753
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Author-Name: Meng Zhao
Author-X-Name-First: Meng
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao
Author-Name: Jun Han
Author-X-Name-First: Jun
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Title: Tensions and Risks of Social Enterprises’ Scaling Strategies: The Case of Microfinance Institutions in China
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The scale-up of social enterprises is usually assumed to bring positive social change. Yet, the negative side, particularly the tensions and risks, in the scaling process is largely ignored. This research aims to explore the tensions and risks related to different scaling strategies. Based on a comparative case study on two leading Chinese microfinance institutions – Grameen China and CFPA Microfinance – that both adopt the Grameen Bank model, this research draws on the lens of institutional logics to understand the microfoundations of five types of tensions and three kinds of risks in the scaling process of the two microfinance institutions. This research provides an integrative framework that captures the nuanced sources, forms and challenges in the scaling of social enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 134-154
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1604404
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Author-Name: Maria L. Granados
Author-X-Name-First: Maria L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Granados
Author-Name: Ainurul Rosli
Author-X-Name-First: Ainurul
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosli
Title: ‘Fitting In’ vs. ‘Standing Out’: How Social Enterprises Engage with Stakeholders to Legitimize their Hybrid Position
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We investigate how social enterprises actively engage with their stakeholders to legitimize their hybrid position in addressing both social and businesses audience. This is particularly important in their effort to capturing stability (expectation to ‘fit in’) within an emerging field and at the same time to address change and growth (expectation to ‘stand out’) with their limited resources, in order to be profitable enterprises, while creating social value. We analyze in-depth interviews with senior members of 21 UK-based social enterprises and we find that for many SEs involved in legitimization exercise through the supportive system, collective system and stakeholders' impression. By outlining the integrated framework on stakeholder engagement for hybrid legitimacy, we found that (i) legitimization exercise through collective sharing of SE identity help to build SE image and legitimize SE socially driven mission, while (ii) legitimization through supportive system (resources and business advantage) help building credibility by demonstrating SE capability to grow economically.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 155-176
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1604405
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Author-Name: Michael J. Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Suzanne Grant
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Grant
Title: The Contemporary Relevance of Karl Polanyi to Critical Social Enterprise Scholarship
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The importance of the work of Karl Polanyi to social enterprise scholarship is often maintained. However, explanations as to how and why his ideas are so relevant to the field are still relatively scarce. In this essay, we argue that engaging with Polanyi’s work directly, and Polanyian scholarship more widely, can provide a deep understanding of the underlying assumptions within current social enterprise conceptualizations, and provide insights into how the relative positioning of market and society may be manipulated to maintain hegemonic positions. Three of Polanyi’s key concepts are considered and discussed in turn: the ‘substantive economy’, the notion of ‘embeddedness’, and his ‘double movement’ thesis. The contemporary relevance of each concept, and the implications for future research, are presented and discussed, with a view to providing a platform from which to pursue a reinvigorated, emancipatory critical research agenda.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 177-193
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1621363
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Author-Name: Jo Barraket
Author-X-Name-First: Jo
Author-X-Name-Last: Barraket
Title: The Role of Intermediaries in Social Innovation: The Case of Social Procurement in Australia
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Social procurement is receiving renewed attention in new public governance regimes that seek to increase social value by stimulating markets for social enterprises and other social benefit providers. Intermediaries have traditionally played important roles in social procurement. Yet little has been done to codify these roles. In this paper, the functions and effects of an intermediary on buyer and supplier practices in social procurement are examined. Based on a two-year evaluation of a social procurement market development programme in Australia, the paper identifies the shifting functions of the intermediary for buyers, suppliers and the intermediary itself, and the implications of these for understanding social innovation in emergent inter-organizational fields.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 194-214
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1624272
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Author-Name: Jun Han
Author-X-Name-First: Jun
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Author-Name: Sonal Shah
Author-X-Name-First: Sonal
Author-X-Name-Last: Shah
Title: The Ecosystem of Scaling Social Impact: A New Theoretical Framework and Two Case Studies
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This article reviews existing literature on scaling social impact and proposes a new theoretical framework to understand the ecosystem of scaling social impact beyond organizational growth. By searching scale-related keywords extensively, we have identified 107 pieces of literature from 1992 to 2018. We analyze the literature and categorize multiple theoretical frameworks of scaling into five groups (supply-demand model, three-strategy model, spiral model, multi-factor model, and pathway model). We find that each model has overlooked one or several enabling factors of scaling. By synthesizing these factors, we propose a new theoretical framework, namely ‘the ecosystem model of scaling social impact’, which combines six key elements – financing, organizations, technology and data, strategies, institutional infrastructure, and government policy. We apply this framework to analyze two cases, the Rockefeller Foundation and B Lab, which initiated and scaled two global movements of Impact Investing and B Corps and map out key elements and players in the formation of the ecosystems of scaling impact.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 215-239
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1624273
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Author-Name: Luc Phan Tan
Author-X-Name-First: Luc Phan
Author-X-Name-Last: Tan
Author-Name: Angelina Nhat Hanh Le
Author-X-Name-First: Angelina Nhat Hanh
Author-X-Name-Last: Le
Author-Name: Lan Pham Xuan
Author-X-Name-First: Lan Pham
Author-X-Name-Last: Xuan
Title: A Systematic Literature Review on Social Entrepreneurial Intention
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Social entrepreneurship is a growing research topic which has recently received much attention; correspondingly, social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) is also a subject of great interest. This paper aims at providing a systematic literature review on SEI that outlines state-of-the-art extant research, clarifies predominant research trends, and subsequently suggests further research directions in the field. A total of 36 papers addressing SEI published between 2010 and 2018 from the Web of Science and Scopus databases are analyzed. The results provide an overall picture of the main areas and themes prevalent in SEI research. Specifically, 36 papers are classified into four main research categories: ‘core model, methodological and theoretical issues’; ‘personal-level factors/variables’; ‘context and institutions’; and ‘the social entrepreneurial intention-to-behaviour process’. The themes and relevant gaps in each of these categories are also identified. In addition, the authors propose research directions to further enhance the understanding of SEI.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 241-256
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1640770
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Author-Name: Roksolana Suchowerska
Author-X-Name-First: Roksolana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suchowerska
Author-Name: Jo Barraket
Author-X-Name-First: Jo
Author-X-Name-Last: Barraket
Author-Name: Joanne Qian
Author-X-Name-First: Joanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Qian
Author-Name: Chris Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Author-Name: Jane Farmer
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Farmer
Author-Name: Gemma Carey
Author-X-Name-First: Gemma
Author-X-Name-Last: Carey
Author-Name: Perri Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Perri
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Author-Name: Andrew Joyce
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Joyce
Title: An Organizational Approach to Understanding How Social Enterprises Address Health Inequities: A Scoping Review
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Researchers are turning greater attention to the role of social enterprise in addressing health inequities. However, few studies explicate the organizational features through which social enterprise may improve health equities. This article reports on a scoping study that finds researchers are focusing on understanding the perspectives of target beneficiaries, thus examining the ‘transactional’ organizational features that are most apparent in daily life—including interpersonal relationships and the allocation of tasks. The role of ‘transformational’ features—including organizational strategy and leadership—remain relatively unexamined. Given that the transactional and transformational features of organizations are intertwined, future research should develop holistic analyses of organizations that show how social enterprises improve health equities and health equity outcomes.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 257-281
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1640771
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Author-Name: Shahriar Akter
Author-X-Name-First: Shahriar
Author-X-Name-Last: Akter
Author-Name: Nabila Jamal
Author-X-Name-First: Nabila
Author-X-Name-Last: Jamal
Author-Name: Md Mahfuz Ashraf
Author-X-Name-First: Md Mahfuz
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashraf
Author-Name: Grace McCarthy
Author-X-Name-First: Grace
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy
Author-Name: PS Varsha
Author-X-Name-First: PS
Author-X-Name-Last: Varsha
Title: The Rise of the Social Business in Emerging Economies: A New Paradigm of Development
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Social business has emerged as a sustainable and innovative means to solve emerging social problems. Although it is gaining momentum, there is a paucity of studies on the drivers of social business models and its key success factors. Drawing on a systematic literature review and an in-depth analysis of 31 social businesses in Bangladesh, the study presents eight key drivers and four success factors for a sustainable social business model. The findings show eight key drivers for social business models including customer centricity, quality, social needs, latent demands, incidental gains, innovation through partnerships, inspirations from initiatives and collaborative eco-systems. The findings also report four critical success factors including social goals, collaboration, simplicity and start from home. Overall, this study discusses the scope of developing and sustaining social business models for empowerment, quality of life and economic growth in emerging economies.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 282-299
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1640772
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Author-Name: Amaya Erro-Garcés
Author-X-Name-First: Amaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Erro-Garcés
Title: Creativity and Emotions as Drivers for Social Entrepreneurship
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Social entrepreneurship is closely related to welfare because social welfare emerges when creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are developed together, creating a ‘cluster of value’ that appears when several value chains are bundled together, resulting in increased employment. This paper presents three cases in which a main character drives a ‘cluster of value’: Father Arizmendiarrieta, Mr Huarte and Mr Pérez ‘Peridis’. Findings show the relevance of emotions, the role of teams and experts that recognize innovations, the relevance of stakeholder wealth and the importance of linking day-to-day challenges to social entrepreneurship, because creativity is closely related to everyday concerns.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 300-316
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1640773
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Author-Name: Heidi Dahles
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahles
Author-Name: Michiel Verver
Author-X-Name-First: Michiel
Author-X-Name-Last: Verver
Author-Name: Sothy Khieng
Author-X-Name-First: Sothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Khieng
Author-Name: Ireen Manders
Author-X-Name-First: Ireen
Author-X-Name-Last: Manders
Author-Name: Nite Schellens
Author-X-Name-First: Nite
Author-X-Name-Last: Schellens
Title: Scaling Up Social Enterprise: Predicament or Prospect in a Comparative Perspective
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This article focuses on the intricate nature of scaling practices in social enterprise organizations (SEOs). The research is based on case study methodology in two different institutional environments, the Netherlands and Cambodia. Comparing and contrasting these cases, the article raises questions about ways in which the institutional environments affect scaling practices. Whilst Dutch and Cambodian SEOs upscale to address market deficiencies in dissimilar institutional environments, the dominant strategy in both cases is to scale for depth impact. Under neoliberal market logic, both institutional environments converge in creating obstacles for SEOs to fully develop their entrepreneurial potential and contribute to social innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 317-342
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1641136
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Author-Name: Melissa L. Intindola
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Intindola
Author-Name: Thomas G. Pittz
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pittz
Author-Name: Sean Edmund Rogers
Author-X-Name-First: Sean Edmund
Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers
Author-Name: Judith Y. Weisinger
Author-X-Name-First: Judith Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weisinger
Title: Partner Selection in Social Entrepreneurship Collectives: How Team Selection Control Can Enhance Satisfaction in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships
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Cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) represent a unique form of collective social entrepreneurship. This research explores team selection control – the ability of an entrepreneurial social collective to provide input into the selection of team members – as an important antecedent of team and job satisfaction. Additionally, this study considers the role of justice in moderating these relationships. The role of team selection control was tested in a sample of cross-sector social partnerships spanning all three economic sectors and divergent social objectives. Primary study results indicate that team selection control is important to individuals participating in CSSPs and that perceived levels of justice can moderate the relationships between team selection control and job and team satisfaction. The implications for scholars and practitioners are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 343-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1641137
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Author-Name: Aikaterini Sotiropoulou
Author-X-Name-First: Aikaterini
Author-X-Name-Last: Sotiropoulou
Author-Name: Dimitra Papadimitriou
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitra
Author-X-Name-Last: Papadimitriou
Author-Name: Leonidas Maroudas
Author-X-Name-First: Leonidas
Author-X-Name-Last: Maroudas
Title: Personal Values and Typologies of Social Entrepreneurs. The Case of Greece
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Social entrepreneurs are key actors in the social entrepreneurial process but not much is known about their value-based profile, especially in Greece. The present study identifies personal values held by 226 social entrepreneurs in Greece to determine their motivational basis and the influence of these values on their involvement. Using the Schwartz theory of basic values and using CFA, this paper finds that the most important values held by social entrepreneurs are self transcendence and openness to change. Further cluster analysis reveals four different types of social entrepreneurs based on their personal values namely conservatives, conventionals, pretentious, and prudents.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-27
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1668827
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Author-Name: Chris Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Author-Name: Michael Moran
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Moran
Author-Name: Gemma Carey
Author-X-Name-First: Gemma
Author-X-Name-Last: Carey
Title: Never Mind the Buzzwords: Comparing Social Enterprise Policy-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia
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Comparative studies of social enterprise have shown that social enterprise exhibits distinctive characteristics across ‘world regions’. This article uses corpus analysis to empirically explore social enterprise policy in the United Kingdom and Australia. We explore convergence in both datasets by looking at semantic structure, comparing each country’s policy corpus against ‘everyday’ language. This allows a comparison of the convergences between the two datasets (policy discourses) compared to a control (everyday language). Although both are reflective of tropes associated with social policy, we also explore linguistic divergence to unpack the different ways that social enterprise is represented in the respective countries. We find a stronger emphasis on work and employment categories in the UK, which aligns with public policy that has linked social enterprise to local and community development. In Australia, market-oriented categories are emphasized. We argue that policy-makers engage with social enterprise in distinctive ways and that like institutional settings do not necessarily lead to like policy outcomes. These findings illustrate why corpus analysis is an important complementary technique for comparative policy analysis as the approach reveals the discursive nuances – or divergences – between countries. Ultimately, this contributes to long-running debates in policy studies scholarship regarding convergence and divergence among regime types.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 28-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1668828
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Author-Name: Lilian Tauber
Author-X-Name-First: Lilian
Author-X-Name-Last: Tauber
Title: Beyond Homogeneity: Redefining Social Entrepreneurship in Authoritarian Contexts
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This article focuses on how social entrepreneurship and its role in civil society can be understood in the context of authoritarian regimes in developing countries. Through the case study of Jordan, the article demonstrates that there are two types of social enterprises, distinguished by their objectives and functions: structural transformation-based social enterprises and product- and service-oriented social enterprises. Their ability to be self-sustainable, community-responsive organizations is evaluated in the context of the country’s political landscape. The research findings apply to the study of social enterprises across the Middle East and in other developing regions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 50-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1668829
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Author-Name: Erica Kim Man Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Erica Kim Man
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Ho Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Ho
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Chi Hing Kee
Author-X-Name-First: Chi Hing
Author-X-Name-Last: Kee
Author-Name: Chi Hong Kwan
Author-X-Name-First: Chi Hong
Author-X-Name-Last: Kwan
Author-Name: Chui Ha Ng
Author-X-Name-First: Chui Ha
Author-X-Name-Last: Ng
Title: Social Impact Measurement in Incremental Social Innovation
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While social innovation is a growing phenomenon, social impact measurement has also become an important practice in the domain of social innovation. It is because social innovation initiatives are usually funded and those who execute the initiatives are usually held accountable to the funders. There are many approaches to social impact measurement in social innovation and no professional standards need to be adhered to. It is up to those who fund and those who are funded to come up with a consensus on what should be measured in the social impact measurement (SIM) exercise. Also, little research has focused on the conceptual nature of social impact measurement in the domain of social innovation. To fill this gap in the literature, an exploratory study was conducted in a bid to reveal theoretical insight into the conceptual nature of SIM in the domain of social innovation. This study makes a reference to Nicholls’ three levels of social innovation in decomposing social innovation. This paper proposes that utilization-focused evaluation be used as a conceptual principle of social impact measurement in incremental social innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 69-86
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1668830
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Author-Name: Jane Farmer
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Farmer
Author-Name: Tracy De Cotta
Author-X-Name-First: Tracy
Author-X-Name-Last: De Cotta
Author-Name: Sue Kilpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Sue
Author-X-Name-Last: Kilpatrick
Author-Name: Jo Barraket
Author-X-Name-First: Jo
Author-X-Name-Last: Barraket
Author-Name: Michael Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Sarah-Anne Munoz
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah-Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Munoz
Title: How Work Integration Social Enterprises Help to Realize Capability: A Comparison of Three Australian Settings
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Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are a response to reconfiguring social support for disadvantaged people. Here, theory and methodology from social geography were applied, to consider capability realized in/by three Australian regional city WISEs. Data were gathered using observation and interviews with supervisors and employees. Coding identified capability, then analyzed by physicality, people, narratives and practices to explore how WISEs ‘assemble’ capability. Comparing across cases highlighted elements that contribute to capability realization. Evidence generated reveals features of work and organization design that might be deployed to enhance capability realization. Social geographical approaches provide insights into how social enterprises generate value.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 87-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1671481
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Author-Name: Juanie N. Walker
Author-X-Name-First: Juanie N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker
Author-Name: Heet J. Ghodasara
Author-X-Name-First: Heet J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghodasara
Title: Transformational Development and Social Capital: Jaipur Rugs and Gram Vikas on Both Sides of the Threshold
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Transformational development occurs on both sides of the domestic threshold at two Indian social enterprises using constitutive communication practices that leverage social capital rooted in traditional Indian values. At Jaipur Rugs, it occurs with social capital belonging and mutuality; bonding, bridging, and linking through the founder family; and ‘conversation’ of family blessing scaled into material ‘text’ of weaver-inspired rug designs. At Gram Vikas, social capital is cultivated in women’s ‘uncontested areas’ of domestic life with structural opportunities and civic literacy; cognition and structure in bonding, bridging and linking ties; and four flows (membership negotiation, self-structuring, activity coordination, and institutional positioning).
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 110-131
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1671482
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Author-Name: Patricia A. Hodge
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge
Author-Name: Ana Carla Bon
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Carla
Author-X-Name-Last: Bon
Author-Name: Marcos Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Marcos
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Author-Name: Fabiane Turisco
Author-X-Name-First: Fabiane
Author-X-Name-Last: Turisco
Title: The Quest for Sustainable Communities in Isolated and in Urban Settings
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Intermediaries such as NGOs have a key role in promoting socioeconomic development of poor and marginalised communities. In this quest for positive social change, entrepreneurship and the fostering of an entrepreneurial culture have been advocated as a means to allow endurance of social programmes once intermediaries leave the community. The aim of this study was to unveil the circumstances which facilitate or inhibit the institutional work of intermediaries for social change, combining institutional entrepreneurship and social capital theories. The research focussed on the work of a Brazilian NGO in two different contexts: in an isolated rural community in the Amazon basin, and in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil. Through multiple case study analysis and interviewing both NGO project managers and community beneficiaries on project results and challenges, this study sheds light on how the existence of a community logic helps achieving goals of socioeconomic development by taking entrepreneurial actions, and how this community logic is affected by geographic and socioeconomic characteristics of each community. This study adds to previous academic research showing the role community leaders have in building on community’s assets and on intermediaries’ assistance to change their social reality.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 132-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1683876
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Author-Name: Khotso Tsotsotso
Author-X-Name-First: Khotso
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsotsotso
Title: Is Programme Evaluation the Same as Social Impact Measurement?
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This study provides an analysis of the practical and theoretical differences in Social Impact Measurements (SIM) – as defined and is core to Impact Investing – and Programme Evaluation (PE) used in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). The study is the result of an inspiring effort to converge experiences of both Impact Investment practitioners and investment managers, with those of Programme Evaluators and M&E specialists. A meeting during the AEA’s (American Evaluation Association) ImpaCon conference in Atlanta in 2017. The effort was to facilitate co-learning in order to improve and grow the Impact Investing industry. The study analyses qualitative survey responses from a purposively selected panel of experts including: experienced SIM practitioners and scholars, impact investment managers, programme evaluators and evaluation scholars. Responses are deductively analysed to provide thematic reactions to the research questions. Even though there is a common theoretical intent to determine intervention worth in both SIM and PE, and a common adherence to principles of evaluative thinking; the study concludes that there are clear theoretical and practical differences in participatory and utilisation approach, efficiency and rigour.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 155-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1683877
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Author-Name: Behnam Abedin
Author-X-Name-First: Behnam
Author-X-Name-Last: Abedin
Author-Name: Brittany Maloney
Author-X-Name-First: Brittany
Author-X-Name-Last: Maloney
Author-Name: Jason Watson
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Watson
Title: Benefits and Challenges Associated with Using Online Communities by Social Enterprises: A Thematic Analysis of Qualitative Interviews
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Social Enterprises (SEs) have gained a considerable amount of attention during last decade in entrepreneurship sector. This paper aims to investigate the benefits and challenges associated with the use of online communities (OCs) by actors in SE sector for value co-creation. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with actors derived primarily from 4 Facebook OCs dedicated for SEs. Results demonstrate that the benefits of using OCs include increased accessibility, time and cost effectiveness, increased responsiveness, accessing to a network of connections, and resource exchange opportunities. However, the challenges include time-consuming, budget, lack of capacity, inadequate moderation, fragmentation of efforts, and inactivity.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 197-218
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1683879
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Author-Name: Mohammad Ali Ashraf
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashraf
Title: “Is Old Gold?” the Role of Prior Experience in Exploring the Determinants of Islamic Social Entrepreneurial Intentions: Evidence from Bangladesh
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of Islamic social entrepreneurial intentions (ISEI) in the context of Bangladesh. Specifically, how do empathy, moral obligation, self-efficacy and perceived social support influence Islamic social entrepreneurial intentions through the mediation of prior experience of individual? To answer this question, a theoretical framework using the theory of social entrepreneurial intentions provided (TSEI) by Mair and Noboa as its basis was established. Using measurement scales created to assess different aspects of the constructs, a survey instrument was developed to test the various relationships implied by ISEI. Data (n = 249) were collected following random sampling procedure from a business school at a private university in Bangladesh. Data were analysed using the procedure of structural equation modelling. Findings show that prior experience both directly and indirectly predicts Islamic social entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy has both the largest impact on intentions as well as on prior experience.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 265-290
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1702580
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Author-Name: Patient Rambe
Author-X-Name-First: Patient
Author-X-Name-Last: Rambe
Author-Name: Takawira Munyaradzi Ndofirepi
Author-X-Name-First: Takawira Munyaradzi
Author-X-Name-Last: Ndofirepi
Title: Explaining Social Entrepreneurial Intentions among College Students in Zimbabwe
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While definitional clarity of social entrepreneurship as constituting a semblance of economic engagements that straddle entrepreneurial studies, social innovation and not for profit ventures had been established, the antecedents of such entrepreneurship are only beginning to emerge. This study tests moral obligation, empathy, self-efficacy and social support as main determinants of social entrepreneurial intentions in the depressed economy of Zimbabwe, where the pursuit of economic gains at a personal level is anticipated to thrive. The study employed the Mair and Naboa model, a quantitative approach, and survey design to explore the influence of the aforementioned antecedents on the social entrepreneurial intentions of a sample of 284 vocational training college students. Results suggest that only empathy, self-efficacy and social support had statistically significant relationships with social entrepreneurial intentions. Notably, social support had a negative predictive relationship with social entrepreneurial intentions. The outcome of the study partially validates the Mair and Naboa model.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 175-196
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1683878
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Author-Name: Goodluck Charles
Author-X-Name-First: Goodluck
Author-X-Name-Last: Charles
Title: Sustainability of Social Enterprises Involved in Waste Collection and Recycling Activities: Lessons from Tanzania
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This article investigates how social enterprises providing waste collection and recycling services overcame start-up challenges and sustain their operations. Based on analysis of five cases in Tanzania, it is evident that waste collection and recycling enterprises start as entrepreneurial entities driven by the opportunity to fill the service delivery gap left by the state. Although the enterprises studied have had a social impact, they have experienced several challenges, including limited access to resources, negative perception of their activities, competition, unsupportive policies, unreliable supply of raw materials, dishonesty of staff and/or waste pickers and poor working conditions. However, the enterprises sustained themselves through good management, engaging the right teams, supporting waste pickers, marketing and networking, developing their skills, using appropriate technology, reinvesting their earnings, diversifying and being members of cooperatives. The article contributes to knowledge by combining the traditional entrepreneurship and socio-environmental entrepreneurship perspectives to explore the sustainability of waste collection and recycling enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 219-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1686712
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Author-Name: Milana Yaari
Author-X-Name-First: Milana
Author-X-Name-Last: Yaari
Author-Name: Edith Blit-Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Edith
Author-X-Name-Last: Blit-Cohen
Author-Name: Rivka Savaya
Author-X-Name-First: Rivka
Author-X-Name-Last: Savaya
Title: Hybrid Organizational Culture: The Case of Social Enterprises
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In order to deepen the understanding of how social enterprises manage the tension between considerations of profit and well-being, the organizations were examined through theories from the field of organizational culture. In this article, research findings that indicate the unique characteristics of the organizational culture in WISE organizations are presented. The findings elicit two organizational models that depict the interface between the business and social orientations. Additionally, a model was developed to present parameters that support a hybrid organizational culture, which include: the vision of the entrepreneur, a hybrid staff, complementary practices, interorganizational relationships, and characteristics of a ‘learning organization’.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 291-313
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1702581
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Author-Name: Bastian Thomsen
Author-X-Name-First: Bastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomsen
Author-Name: Olav Muurlink
Author-X-Name-First: Olav
Author-X-Name-Last: Muurlink
Author-Name: Talitha Best
Author-X-Name-First: Talitha
Author-X-Name-Last: Best
Title: Backpack Bootstrapping: Social Entrepreneurship Education Through Experiential Learning
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This paper addresses a gap in the literature regarding social entrepreneurship education through an exploratory study that leverages three separate, but distinct experiential learning projects. Students were randomly assigned into three separate groups: action-research, service learning, and a ‘traditional’ new social enterprise venture. All three approaches fostered student development and social entrepreneurial skill building. However, experiential learning (action research and service-learning) placed a greater emphasis on student comprehension of the subject matter in relation to the weight of responsibility they experienced by partnering with third-party organisations outside the classroom, compared to the traditional new venture approach. The findings indicate that experiential learning is an optimal conduit to student maturity when coupled with self-reflection and class discussion. The term backpack bootstrapping is introduced to illustrate how students rapidly learn by taking on a real but manageable weight of responsibility they assign to themselves. This study is original for its approach to incorporating student voices to gauge how their learning may be enhanced to improve social entrepreneurship education. Although it is an exploratory study and limited in its scope (26 students over one semester), it provides a basis for further research using experiential learning models in social entrepreneurship education.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 238-264
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1689155
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Author-Name: Richard J. Arend
Author-X-Name-First: Richard J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Arend
Title: Modelling Social Entrepreneurship: Consideration of the Reacting Forces
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The field of social entrepreneurship has taken off with the explosive growth of different versions of the phenomena, like micro-credit, and with greater support, as from Ashoka and the Gates Foundation, but it remains lagging in theoretical understanding. We build upon the model of social entrepreneurship as a four unit system. We generate four new propositions based on existing theory describing social entrepreneurship as addressing market failures and as a behavioural process. Specifically, our propositions summarise our analysis of how the context and targets of social entrepreneurship activity co-evolve in the system, actively affecting outcomes initiated by social entrepreneurs’ behaviours.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 399-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1718744
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Author-Name: Georgios Chatzichristos
Author-X-Name-First: Georgios
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatzichristos
Author-Name: Nikolaos Nagopoulos
Author-X-Name-First: Nikolaos
Author-X-Name-Last: Nagopoulos
Title: Regional Institutional Arenas for Social Innovation: A Mixed Methods Research
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Social innovation is conceptualised as having two intimately related pillars: institutional innovation and locally embedded innovation, in the sense of social economy. Two main research questions were addressed: how political, institutional innovation is fostered and how does it influence social economy? A mixed methods research was conducted in the Mühlviertel NUTS3 region. Despite a framework of enhanced autonomy and institutional innovation for the main stakeholders, both macro and micro analysis illustrate a lack of intermediate space to: a) link the innovative agenda to high-state political agendas, and b) link institutional innovation to social economy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 315-337
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2019.1705378
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Author-Name: Helen Salavou
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Salavou
Author-Name: Sandra Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Title: Towards a Typology of Social Enterprises Based on Performance: Some New Evidence
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This study deals with the first empirical study on a performance typology of social enterprises (SEs). Based upon a sample of 61 Greek SEs, the empirical findings outline how the group of ‘Impact Maximisers’ (43 SEs) performs better than the group of ‘Social Missionaries’ (18 SEs). This paper goes beyond the evident focus on qualitative research and practice within the social entrepreneurship field. By discussing how different dimensions shed light on the performance potential of SEs in a European country, where they grow exponentially, this study serves as a bellwether for performance comparisons across Europe.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 380-398
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1718743
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Author-Name: You Ning Lee
Author-X-Name-First: You Ning
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Suhaiza Zailani
Author-X-Name-First: Suhaiza
Author-X-Name-Last: Zailani
Author-Name: Muhammad Khalilur Rahman
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Khalilur
Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman
Title: Determinants of Customer Intention to Purchase Social Enterprise Products: A Structural Model Analysis
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This study aims to examine the determinants of customers’ intention to purchase social enterprise products. The data were collected using a self-administrated questionnaire consisting of 360 respondents from consumers of social enterprise products (MyPride products) sold by current prisoners in Malaysia. Using the Partial Least Square (SmartPLS) technique, the effect of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control on consumers’ intention to purchase products were explored based on Ajzen’s Theory of Plan Behaviour (TPB). The findings reveal that the strongest relationship was found between attitudes and consumers’ intention to purchase products, followed by the subjective norm and perceived behavioural control. This study provides new insights into the TPB and customers’ intention to purchase products made by prisoners. The findings are valuable to social enterprise products and other social enterprises to improve their products based on the customers’ insights.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 358-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1718742
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Author-Name: Marios Trigkas
Author-X-Name-First: Marios
Author-X-Name-Last: Trigkas
Author-Name: Maria Partalidou
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Partalidou
Author-Name: Dimitra Lazaridou
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitra
Author-X-Name-Last: Lazaridou
Title: Trust and Other Historical Proxies of Social Capital: Do They Matter in Promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Greek Rural Areas?
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The aim of the research is to discuss methodological issues that could be learned from the use of historical terms such as trust and social capital in a rural area. We hope to gain knowledge from discussing these old concepts in a new setting; a mountainous rural area in Greece. The basic hypothesis lies in the fact that social capital can be detected through trustworthy relationships, which, in turn, can nourish social entrepreneurship. The research sought to disclose the dynamics in the area that will then help to form a policy proposal for promoting Social Economy in rural areas.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 338-357
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1718741
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Author-Name: Agnieszka Żur
Author-X-Name-First: Agnieszka
Author-X-Name-Last: Żur
Title: Entrepreneurial Identity and Social-Business Tensions – The Experience of Social Entrepreneurs
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While much research has been devoted to the study of how social entrepreneurs manage social-business tensions inherent when pursuing dual missions, we know very little on what determines the ways that they address this challenge. Building on Fauchart and Gruber’s classification of three pure types of entrepreneurial social identities, this study applies a qualitative approach to explore the interplay between entrepreneurial identity and the handling of social-business tensions. The aim of the study is twofold: first, to identify social entrepreneurs’ self-perceived identity, and second, to explore its potential relationship with social-business tensions. Findings reveal that social entrepreneurs exhibit hybrid identities of all three pure identity types. In handling social business tensions, however, they tend to develop new meta-role identities, acting as intermediaries between their organisations and the market, and between actors from different sectors. Additionally, the study identified push and pull factors, which play a role in the gradual process of self-perceived identity modification. These findings offer fresh insights into the entrepreneurial identity and social entrepreneurship literature and expand our understanding of the micro-foundations of social entrepreneurs’ managerial choices.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 438-461
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1740297
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Author-Name: Simon Teasdale
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Teasdale
Author-Name: Michael J. Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Rafael Ziegler
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziegler
Author-Name: Stefanie Mauksch
Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Mauksch
Author-Name: Pascal Dey
Author-X-Name-First: Pascal
Author-X-Name-Last: Dey
Author-Name: Emmanuel B. Raufflet
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Raufflet
Title: Everyone a Changemaker? Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Social Innovation Discourse Through Real Utopias
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The term ‘social innovation’ has come to gather all manner of meanings from policymakers and politicians across the political spectrum. But while actors may unproblematically unite around a broad perspective of social innovation as bringing about (positive) social change, we rarely see evidence of a shared vision for the kind of social change that social innovation ought to bring about. Taking inspiration from methods that recognise the utopian thinking inherent in the social innovation concept, we draw upon Erik Olin Wright’s concept of ‘real utopias’ to investigate the moral underpinnings inherent in the public statements of Ashoka, one of the most prominent social innovation actors operating in the world today. We seek to animate discussion on the moral principles that guide social innovation discourse through examining the problems that Ashoka is trying to solve through social innovation, the world they are striving to create, and the strategies they propose to realise their vision.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 417-437
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2021
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1738532
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Author-Name: Rafał Kusa
Author-X-Name-First: Rafał
Author-X-Name-Last: Kusa
Author-Name: Katarzyna Dębkowska
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Dębkowska
Title: Identifying Internationalisation Profiles of Social Entrepreneurs Utilising Multidimensional Statistical Analysis
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In this paper, internationalisation of social enterprises is examined with multidimensional statistical methods: a correspondence analysis and cluster analyses. The results show that (1) organisations that sell products operate as social enterprises or business enterprises, while those that provide a solution for free tend to operate as charities or associations; (2) entities providing a solution for free tend to operate in several markets and transfer knowledge and goods; (3) organisations that help to start a new business work as charities, associations, foundations; (4) organisations that help in running an existing business tend to operate as social or business enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 29-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1751246
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Author-Name: Felicia Naatu
Author-X-Name-First: Felicia
Author-X-Name-Last: Naatu
Author-Name: Ilan Alon
Author-X-Name-First: Ilan
Author-X-Name-Last: Alon
Author-Name: Rehema Uwamahoro
Author-X-Name-First: Rehema
Author-X-Name-Last: Uwamahoro
Title: Micro-Franchising in the Bottom of the Pyramid Market: Rwanda
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This study examines how a mission-driven shared identification can help mitigate the failure of a micro-franchise in Rwanda, a bottom of the pyramid market. A single case study was adopted following Gioia’s established analytical process. Interviews, semi-structured interviews and observations were conducted between the period of 2018 and 2019. It was found that, a mission-driven shared identification can be achieved if a micro-franchisor promotes a culture of sharing and perceived organisational support among micro-franchisees. Also, an alliance with the government or its endorsement is necessary in encouraging franchisees to identify with a micro-franchisor. Furthermore, in a collectivist culture, if a micro-franchisor succeeds in establishing shared identification, the franchisees are very likely to remain loyal in times of crisis.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 71-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1755347
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Author-Name: Preeti Tiwari
Author-X-Name-First: Preeti
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiwari
Author-Name: Anil K. Bhat
Author-X-Name-First: Anil K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhat
Author-Name: Jyoti Tikoria
Author-X-Name-First: Jyoti
Author-X-Name-Last: Tikoria
Title: Mediating Role of Prosocial Motivation in Predicting Social Entrepreneurial Intentions
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The aim of this research study to identify the role of empathy, moral judgement and social entrepreneurial education in predicting social entrepreneurial intention. And also test the mediating effect of prosocial motivation in this relationship. Through the survey, primary sample data of 755 nascent social entrepreneurs were used to test the hypotheses. The hypothesised moderated mediation condition was supported as results suggest that prosocial motivation mediated the relationship between antecedents and social entrepreneurial intentions. Besides this social entrepreneurial education showed a strong direct relationship with social entrepreneurial intentions. These findings strengthen the argument which states that there is a great need from policy, educators and universities to start courses that can imbibe the feeling of empathy. And also support system to motivates students to go for social entrepreneurship as a career choice.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 118-141
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1755993
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Author-Name: Katrin Schaefer
Author-X-Name-First: Katrin
Author-X-Name-Last: Schaefer
Author-Name: Kate Kearins
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearins
Author-Name: Patricia Doyle Corner
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia Doyle
Author-X-Name-Last: Corner
Title: How Social Entrepreneurs’ Inner Realities Shape Value Creation
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This paper empirically examines how social entrepreneurs’ inner realities – thoughts, feelings, self-awareness – shape the entrepreneurial value creation process. A qualitative research design was used to induce theory. Evidence shows social entrepreneurs engaged in practices that increased awareness of both positive and negative aspects of their inner realities. Positive aspects tended to enable generative value creation mechanisms and lead to positive social/environmental outcomes; negative aspects tended to interfere and lead to unintended negative outcomes. Key contributions include a fuller picture of the value creation process from multiple levels – individual, enterprise, wider environment – while considering social entrepreneurs’ exterior and interior dimensions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 51-70
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1753800
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Author-Name: Matilda Maseno
Author-X-Name-First: Matilda
Author-X-Name-Last: Maseno
Author-Name: Caroline Wanyoike
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Wanyoike
Title: Social Entrepreneurship as Mechanisms for Social Transformation and Social Impact in East Africa An Exploratory Case Study Perspective
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This study provides an analysis of 10 cases of social entrepreneurs who are also current Ashoka fellows and operate within the East African region. The article suggests characteristics associated with social enterprises, particularly those that lead to significant changes in the social, economic and political contexts for poor and marginalised groups. It generates propositions about fundamental innovations, leadership and operation, and scaling up in social enterprises that produces sustainable impact. The article concludes with a discussion on the implications for social entrepreneurial practice, research, and continuous development.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 92-117
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1755348
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Author-Name: Philipp Erpf
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Erpf
Author-Name: Eglė Butkevičienė
Author-X-Name-First: Eglė
Author-X-Name-Last: Butkevičienė
Author-Name: Raminta Pučėtaitė
Author-X-Name-First: Raminta
Author-X-Name-Last: Pučėtaitė
Title: Between de Jure and de Facto: Embedding Western Concepts of Social Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Reality
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This article takes a historical perspective to explain the development of the concept of social entrepreneurship, divergence between the forms of social enterprises (SEs) de jure and de facto in a post-Socialist society and approaches to typical tensions experienced by SEs as hybrid organisations. In this respect, the paper presents a framework of eight contrasting conceptual dimensions (i.e. possible institutional tensions) based on the analysis of prior social entrepreneurship studies and identifies respective tensions experienced by SEs based on data from Lithuania. The data were generated from semi-structured interviews (N = 11) with social entrepreneurship experts and from a survey with a semantic differential method in a sample of the participants (N = 98) in the largest conference on social entrepreneurship in Lithuania. This study concludes that understandings of social entrepreneurship in Lithuania are blurred by a dichotomy between SEs de jure and de facto which is set by current legal acts. The findings also indicate that social entrepreneurship insiders no longer perceive any controversy between social mission and businesslike activities. However, external attitudes as expressed in experts’ interviews may still hinder SEs’ attainment of social impact, one of the three dimensions (founding motives and innovation types being the other two) that is little reflected by social entrepreneurship insiders of a post-Socialist society in which the phenomenon is at a nascent stage. Directions for further research to bring contribution to institutional theory are suggested.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1751245
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Author-Name: Bogdan Prokopovych
Author-X-Name-First: Bogdan
Author-X-Name-Last: Prokopovych
Author-Name: Ina Ganguli
Author-X-Name-First: Ina
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganguli
Title: Social Artrepreneurship and Collectives: Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs from the Wanderers Art Movement in Imperial Russia
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We draw on a hybrid organisation of artists in Imperial Russia to examine the experience of ‘social artrepreneurs’ – artists who pursued both social and commercial goals. Using contemporary theories of organisation, we argue that a key feature of this organisation – the collective of artists – helped in connecting means and ends while balancing hybridity through the process of partial organising. Our paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on how organisations deal with hybridity challenges by exploring the means-ends perspective at the level of an organisation. It highlights the use of partial organising for balancing social and commercial pursuits.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 278-298
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1779788
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Author-Name: Eleanor Meda Chipeta
Author-X-Name-First: Eleanor Meda
Author-X-Name-Last: Chipeta
Author-Name: Robert Venter
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Venter
Author-Name: Philipp Kruse
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruse
Title: Measuring the Role of Reductive Bias in Social Enterprise Formation: Development and Validation of a Social Entrepreneurial Intention Bias Scale
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Social entrepreneurship (SE) has become a global phenomenon that is increasingly receiving institutional support as a business model designed to address social problems. However, despite having a global presence, enthusiasm for SE has run ahead of its scientific enquiry. As the field is still developing, the empirical nature of SE research has become a major cause for concern. Consequently, the target for this current study was twofold: Firstly, to propose and validate a scale to measure social entrepreneurial intention bias (SEI-Bias) using a German and a South African sample of university students (Ntotal=595). Secondly, to identify patterns of social entrepreneurial antecedents among people with a high SEI-Bias compared to people with a low SEI-Bias. Applying exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and correlation analysis, to develop and validate a robust SE intention bias scale comprising of three Reductive Bias (RB)-facets. Furthermore, based on a rather low or high level of each of the three RB-facets, significant differences were found in the level to which RB influences SE intention. Additionally, an outline of the implications and limitations of our findings as well as recommendations for future practice were made.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 164-182
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1758196
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Author-Name: Nader Naderi
Author-X-Name-First: Nader
Author-X-Name-Last: Naderi
Author-Name: Ehsan Khosravi
Author-X-Name-First: Ehsan
Author-X-Name-Last: Khosravi
Author-Name: Hossein Azadi
Author-X-Name-First: Hossein
Author-X-Name-Last: Azadi
Author-Name: Faranak Karamian
Author-X-Name-First: Faranak
Author-X-Name-Last: Karamian
Author-Name: Ants-Hannes Viira
Author-X-Name-First: Ants-Hannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Viira
Author-Name: Halil Nadiri
Author-X-Name-First: Halil
Author-X-Name-Last: Nadiri
Title: Barriers to Developing Social Entrepreneurship in NGOs: Application of Grounded Theory in Western Iran
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The most appropriate type of entrepreneurship to achieve the goals of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is social entrepreneurship (SE). However, the NGOs face many barriers in their SE that should be studied. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to assess the barriers to development of SE in NGOs of Kermanshah province in Western Iran using a qualitative paradigm along with the method of grounded theory. Using purposeful and theoretical sampling, 12 cases were selected. The techniques used for data collection were open questionnaires (unstructured), individual depth interviews, and taking notes. The findings showed that the most important barriers to the development of SE in NGOs of Kermanshah province include cultural-social, economic, educational, infrastructure, communication-information, management, psychological, legal-policy, and supportive barriers. These barriers have resulted in the phenomenon of SE underdevelopment among NGOs of Kermanshah province. Moreover, these barriers have played a major role in the failure of the process of solving the social problems of the province of Kermanshah, which eventually has led to the underdevelopment of its status. These barriers should be controlled, adjusted, or even eliminated. Finally, based on the findings and in order to overcome these barriers, some recommendations were presented.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 221-243
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1765409
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Author-Name: Kristjana Jace
Author-X-Name-First: Kristjana
Author-X-Name-Last: Jace
Author-Name: Dimitrios Koumanakos
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios
Author-X-Name-Last: Koumanakos
Author-Name: Athanasios Tsagkanos
Author-X-Name-First: Athanasios
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsagkanos
Title: Bankruptcy Prediction in Social Enterprises
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Traditional bankruptcy literature focuses on commercial enterprises for identifying the strongest variables and models to predict the bankruptcy outcomes. In this study, for the first time, we exploit a large dataset of European bankrupt and healthy social enterprises (SE’s) in order to identify the crucial factors that affect the survival of this growing and distinguishable legal form. Combined with the goal of achieving optimal predictive accuracy, we rely on Random Utility Models (RUM) emphasising a new methodology: the Bootstrap Mixed Logit (BMXL). In contrast to what has been found for commercial enterprises, empirical results here indicate that certain organisational features such as the board and workforce size may have a different impact on the probability of SE’s bankruptcy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 205-220
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1763438
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Author-Name: Styliani Graikioti
Author-X-Name-First: Styliani
Author-X-Name-Last: Graikioti
Author-Name: Despoina Sdrali
Author-X-Name-First: Despoina
Author-X-Name-Last: Sdrali
Author-Name: Olympia Klimi Kaminari
Author-X-Name-First: Olympia
Author-X-Name-Last: Klimi Kaminari
Title: Factors Determining the Sustainability of Social Cooperative Enterprises in the Greek Context
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The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the factors contributing to the sustainability of Social Cooperative enterprises in Greece as these were perceived by the social entrepreneurs themselves. A survey was conducted using closed-ended questions.Exploratory analysis showed that integrated support was considered as the most important factor contributing to the sustainability of Social Cooperative enterprises. Furthermore, networking, awareness - raising and publicity were considered to be of much importance for the sustainability of them. The current study adds to the knowledge regarding the perspectives of Greek social entrepreneurs and to the body of much-needed quantitative research.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 183-204
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1758197
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Author-Name: Julia C. Naranjo-Valencia
Author-X-Name-First: Julia C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Naranjo-Valencia
Author-Name: Ana C. Ocampo-Wilches
Author-X-Name-First: Ana C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ocampo-Wilches
Author-Name: Luis F. Trujillo-Henao
Author-X-Name-First: Luis F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Trujillo-Henao
Title: From Social Entrepreneurship to Social Innovation: The Role of Social Capital. Study Case in Colombian Rural Communities Victim of Armed Conflict
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How social entrepreneurship can become social innovation has been little studied, even less in the rural context. This document poses that social entrepreneurship generate different types of capital as they integrate into a social network, and it is that social capital that allows it to become a successful social innovation. Applying a social capital approach to two social enterprises (or social entrepreneurship) study cases, from Colombian rural communities victims of armed conflict, shows how social enterprises integrated into social networks achieve two significant outcomes. On one side, generate interactive and collective learning and institutional change, and on other, favour determinants of social innovation, thus incrementing and reconfiguring social entrepreneurs’ capabilities leading to social innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 244-277
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1770317
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Author-Name: Virginie Arantes
Author-X-Name-First: Virginie
Author-X-Name-Last: Arantes
Title: Transforming or Complying? The Rise of Social Enterprises in Shanghai
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Since the so-called ‘association revolution’, which had brought about an exponential development of NGOs in China, the rise of Social Enterprises (SE) seem to mark a new turn. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the following article aims to understand whether the growing hybridisation of civil society involved in the development of SEs represents a global trend or a reaction to the Central State new policies. Research findings show that the elasticity of a SE identity can help organisations adapt to shifts in the macro-level political discourse of authoritarian regimes.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 143-163
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1758195
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Author-Name: Kai Roland Green
Author-X-Name-First: Kai Roland
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: Dis/Ability Arts and Systemic Innovation in the UK and Sweden
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This paper explores the normative and epistemic effects of dis/ability arts organisations in the UK and Sweden, when theorised as systemic innovations. Using an aesthetic philosophy of kynicism, this paper identifies disruptive potential in three case-study organisations within the settings of health, social care, and the arts. Data from interviews and/or presentations with managers from Moomsteatern (SE), Teater Interakt (SE), and Breathe Magic (UK) is analysed within a 'social model' of dis/ability, and finds the existing discourse of innovation inadequate. The resulting discussion identifies validations of the speech, expertise and bodily autonomy of persons of dis/abilities within hybrid organisational settings.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 366-389
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1788122
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Author-Name: Mikkel Munksgaard Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Mikkel Munksgaard
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Rasmus Dilling-Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Rasmus
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilling-Hansen
Author-Name: Anne Vorre Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Anne Vorre
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Expanding the Concept of Social Impact Bonds
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This article elaborates on the emerging concept of social impact bonds (SIB) by investigating the configuration of a SIB in a new empirical setting – Scandinavia. The analysis is based on a single case study of a SIB-development project in Denmark, which constitutes the first attempt to build a social impact bond in the country. The article investigates four elements of the SIB-model: 1) the configuration of roles and responsibilities, 2) service provision, 3) payment structure, and 4) evaluation. The findings show the existence of blurred boundaries between organisational stakeholders within the investigated SIB-programme, indicating a dynamic configuration of roles and responsibilities. Furthermore, both service provision and data collection procedures were conducted in close collaboration with the involved public authorities, implying an interdependent relationship between public authorities and external partners. Thus, the empirical findings indicate a divergence from traditional concepts of social impact bonds – specifically concerning their design and development. Empirical evidence has been collected through interviews, statistical data, and internal documents.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 390-407
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1806100
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Author-Name: Phan Tan Luc
Author-X-Name-First: Phan
Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Luc
Author-Name: Pham Xuan Lan
Author-X-Name-First: Pham
Author-X-Name-Last: Xuan Lan
Author-Name: Angelina Nhat Hanh Le
Author-X-Name-First: Angelina
Author-X-Name-Last: Nhat Hanh Le
Author-Name: Bui Thanh Trang
Author-X-Name-First: Bui
Author-X-Name-Last: Thanh Trang
Title: A Co-Citation and Co-Word Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship Research
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This article aims to provide the intellectual structure and the evolution of research themes in social entrepreneurship. The authors deploy co-citation and co-word analyses to scrutinise 1278 social entrepreneurship research from the Web of Science database. In the co-citation analysis, five themes in social entrepreneurship are identified. These include the concept development of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise; bricolage and issues related to management in social entrepreneurship; opportunity recognition, motivation and intention; social innovation in social entrepreneurship; and institutional contexts. After that, the co-word analysis is used to comprehend the evolution of each research theme and to uncover potential future research directions. This research contributes to social entrepreneurship literature by combining co-citation analysis and keyword analysis to determine the literature structure and potential research directions.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 324-339
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1782971
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Author-Name: Nadine Hietschold
Author-X-Name-First: Nadine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hietschold
Author-Name: Christian Voegtlin
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Voegtlin
Title: Blinded by a Social Cause? Differences in Cognitive Biases between Social and Commercial Entrepreneurs
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How are social entrepreneurs different from commercial entrepreneurs? This study sheds light on this issue by applying the perspective of entrepreneurial cognition and by arguing that social entrepreneurs are even more susceptible to cognitive biases than commercial entrepreneurs. The empirical study of 205 Swiss entrepreneurs could confirm that social entrepreneurs tend to be more overconfident and prone to escalation of commitment than commercial entrepreneurs, while the study found no differences for illusion of control. The findings indicate that cognitive biases are an important puzzle piece to understand the differences between social and commercial entrepreneurs.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 431-452
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1880466
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Author-Name: Julianna Kiss
Author-X-Name-First: Julianna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kiss
Author-Name: Henriett Primecz
Author-X-Name-First: Henriett
Author-X-Name-Last: Primecz
Author-Name: Andrea Toarniczky
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Toarniczky
Title: Patterns of Inclusion: Social Enterprises Targeting Different Vulnerable Social Groups in Hungary
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Social enterprises (SEs) have often been regarded as a solution for improving the situations of vulnerable social groups such as women, the Roma and people with disabilities. However, how SEs in practice foster inclusion remains under-researched in Hungary and internationally as well. This paper examines the objectives, activities and operations of and barriers to SEs targeting vulnerable social groups. According to the findings, the initiatives aimed at achieving inclusion focus on providing missing services, building the community and work integration, targeting both the vulnerable groups themselves and the majority society. However, external barriers make the operations of many SEs minimal and unsustainable.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 408-430
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1806101
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Author-Name: Brett R. Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Brett R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Joshua R. Knapp
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Knapp
Author-Name: Benedetto L. Cannatelli
Author-X-Name-First: Benedetto L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cannatelli
Title: Entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid: The Moderating Role of Person-Facilitator Fit and Poverty Alleviation
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Facilitating entrepreneurship through micro-credit, micro-franchise, and micro-consignment potentially helps to alleviate desperate poverty. However, the effectiveness of these facilitators have varied from positive outcomes of poverty alleviation to negative outcomes of increased debt. Therefore, we seek to understand: how and why are different facilitators of entrepreneurial activity at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) relatively more effective at alleviating poverty? Building on the foundation of person-entrepreneurship fit, we introduce the construct of person-facilitator fit and develop propositions about how and why the fit between entrepreneurs and the different facilitators of entrepreneurship may influence poverty alleviation. Specifically, using a remediation perspective, we explicate how the demands-abilities and needs-supplies fit between an entrepreneur and the different facilitators of micro-credit, micro-franchise and micro-consignment moderates the likelihood of poverty alleviation and how person-facilitator fit moderates the magnitude of poverty alleviation over time. We offer theoretical and practical implications of our framework for different perspectives (remediation, reform, and revolution) on entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 299-323
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1779789
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Author-Name: Chong Kyoon Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chong Kyoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Sharon A. Simmons
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Simmons
Author-Name: Alejandro Amezcua
Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Amezcua
Author-Name: Jin Young Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Jin Young
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: G. T. Lumpkin
Author-X-Name-First: G. T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumpkin
Title: Moderating Effects of Informal Institutions on Social Entrepreneurship Activity
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Using the legitimacy lens from institutional theory and a multi-level analysis of 29,175 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor respondents from 16 countries, we examine how national culture and societal attitudes influence individual level decisions to allocate entrepreneurial talent into revenue generating and not-for-profit social enterprises. We find the stigma of business failure to be positively associated with the probability that individuals will invest their entrepreneurial talents into a social venture. We also find that in both performance-based cultures and socially supportive cultures, the positive effects of the stigma of business failure on social entrepreneurship entry are decreased. Our findings suggest that informal institutions significantly influence the revenue generating-strategy of social entrepreneurship. However, they have no significant correlation to the nonprofit-strategy of social entrepreneurship. These findings underscore the complexity of balancing the competing logics of profit maximisation with social value maximisation in the decision to organise start-ups as social enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 340-365
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1782972
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Author-Name: Julianna Faludi
Author-X-Name-First: Julianna
Author-X-Name-Last: Faludi
Title: How to Create Social Value Through Digital Social Innovation? Unlocking the Potential of the Social Value Creation of Digital Start-Ups
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Considering digital start-ups as agents of social innovation, this study highlights the Potential for Social Value Frame (PSVF) method. The latter helps examine how projects inherently frame the social domain beyond ranking techniques, and measures their potential for social value creation from a structural perspective, relying on Coleman’s Boat and the model of levels of agency. Based on a mixed method of multi-stage coding, content analysis, and scaling, the model was tested on an 8-year sample. Plotted over time, digital solutions show increasing potential for creating significant social value, especially related to AI and big data.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 73-90
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1823871
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Author-Name: Carmen Guzmán
Author-X-Name-First: Carmen
Author-X-Name-Last: Guzmán
Author-Name: Teresa Savall
Author-X-Name-First: Teresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Savall
Author-Name: Marta Solórzano-García
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Solórzano-García
Title: Ethical Banking in Spain: Does an Organisational Identity Exist That Distinguishes It from Conventional Banking?
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Ethical banking has developed considerably in recent years. However, neither a universally accepted definition, nor a consensus by academicians about its typical characteristics yet exists to differentiate it from conventional banking. The purpose of this article is to bridge this gap in the literature using the notion of organisational identity, according to which an organisation is identified by a series of characteristics and attributes that differentiate it from other organisations. The case of Spanish ethical banking is analysed by examining the three main references in this country: Triodos Bank, Fiare and Coop57. The results allowed us to conclude that, despite no consensus on an ethical banking definition, an organisational identity does exist for ethical banking in Spain, which is defined according to the principles of integrity, responsibility and affinity.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1821752
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Author-Name: Carolin J. Waldner
Author-X-Name-First: Carolin J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldner
Title: In the Centre of Attention: How Social Entrepreneurs Influence Organisational Reputation
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To enhance organisational reputation, entrepreneurs are frequently put in the centre of attention. Particularly social entrepreneurs, who combine pro-social and entrepreneurial identities, often represent their organisations. Yet, we know little about how the presentation of a leader influences organisational reputation. Results of a 2 × 2 × 2 pre-registered experiment indicate that a leader-centred communication barely influences the stakeholders’ perceptions. However, stakeholders have a significantly better perception of a social enterprise that presents a leader with salient society-oriented character traits (versus business-oriented character traits). This study contributes to social entrepreneurship and reputation research and reveals new insights for practice.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 50-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1823456
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Author-Name: Abel García-González
Author-X-Name-First: Abel
Author-X-Name-Last: García-González
Author-Name: María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya
Author-X-Name-First: María Soledad
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramírez-Montoya
Title: Social Entrepreneurship Competency in Higher Education: An Analysis Using Mixed Methods
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Social entrepreneurship is a necessary competency in higher education; however, research in this area is in its early stages. This study sought to evaluate social entrepreneurship competency and identify the factors and educational processes that promote its development. The research consisted of mixed method. The tools included a questionnaire, interviews with professors, and a focus group with students. The questionnaire did not show variation by disciplinary area, semester grade, or previous experience. The interviews and the focus group led to an analysis that described the development of the SEC as a continuous learning process around the validation of the social enterprise.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 91-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1823872
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Author-Name: Richard J. Arend
Author-X-Name-First: Richard J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Arend
Title: Social Entrepreneurship as ‘Doing Good’ by Mitigating Opposition Better
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We complement emerging theory-building in social entrepreneurship by adopting a new perspective. We start with the assumption that the existence of opposing interests is the main reason that things that should have been done to improve social welfare have not been done. We then draw on economic concepts and logical reasoning to build a typology of problems relevant to the goal of improving social welfare. Determining the solutions to those problem types identifies which forces are likely to oppose their implementation. From that basis, we describe which characteristics would be helpful, and which wouldn’t, for providing the solutions while also mitigating the likely opposition. That analysis provides the basis to argue, that for specific problems, social entrepreneurs are likely to embody a relatively better set of characteristics (versus, for example, a local governmental agency). We then discuss the implications for research, management and policy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 110-130
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1826562
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Author-Name: Braulio Pareja-Cano
Author-X-Name-First: Braulio
Author-X-Name-Last: Pareja-Cano
Author-Name: Carmen Valor
Author-X-Name-First: Carmen
Author-X-Name-Last: Valor
Author-Name: Arturo Benito
Author-X-Name-First: Arturo
Author-X-Name-Last: Benito
Title: How Social Enterprises Nurture Empowerment: A Grounded Theoretical Model of Social Change
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Our understanding of how social enterprises enable social change is still limited. Empowerment could be a valid mediating construct to explain the processes occurring between entrepreneurial practices and achievement of social goals. Based on an ethnography case study in a South African social enterprise, this study reveals the entrepreneurial practices that contribute to women’s empowerment and the power-accruing processes that provide female workers access and control over resources and a sense of individual and collective achievement that facilitates the rupture of patriarchal gender roles. This empowerment-based model contributes to explain social change processes inherent in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 29-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1821753
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Author-Name: Dominika Wach
Author-X-Name-First: Dominika
Author-X-Name-Last: Wach
Author-Name: Philipp Kruse
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruse
Author-Name: Sílvia Costa
Author-X-Name-First: Sílvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Costa
Author-Name: Juan Antonio Moriano
Author-X-Name-First: Juan
Author-X-Name-Last: Antonio Moriano
Title: Exploring Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Intentions from Theory of Planned Behaviour Perspective: A Cross-Country Study among Namibian and German Students
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The demand for entrepreneurship to become more prevalent in societies worldwide highlights the need to better understand entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This is particularly important for African nations characterised by significant poverty and low income. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) this paper explores potential predictors of these intentions in two countries that differ considerably in their economic situation and culture. It chiefly focuses on SEI as socially desired, yet still unexplored phenomenon. The current study differentiates between social (SEI) and commercial (CEI) entrepreneurial intentions and explores their antecedents among university students in Namibia (n = 223) and Germany (n = 1326). The results suggest that TPB only poorly predicts SEI, particularly in Namibia. However, they support universally positive effect of perceived behavioural control on formation of CEI in both countries. This study contributes to emerging research into antecedents of SEI. It also highlights the need to test exploratory power of recognised theories such as TPB within different contexts and types of entrepreneurial activity.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 226-247
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1863250
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Author-Name: Arpita Ghatak
Author-X-Name-First: Arpita
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghatak
Author-Name: Swagato Chatterjee
Author-X-Name-First: Swagato
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee
Author-Name: Bhaskar Bhowmick
Author-X-Name-First: Bhaskar
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhowmick
Title: Intention Towards Digital Social Entrepreneurship: An Integrated Model
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The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model finding the antecedents of intention towards digital social entrepreneurship (IDSE). Based on the basic frameworks of entrepreneurial intention theory, the theory of planned behaviour, and expectancy theory the paper proposes that experiences in social organisation and digital organisation lead to IDSE. Empathy, moral obligation, self-efficacy, perceived social support, perceived feasibility and perceived desirability act as mediating variables in the above relationships. The study validates the hypotheses by testing a series of possible empirical models on survey data with 482 responses. The theoretical and policy implications have been discussed in detail.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 131-151
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1826563
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Author-Name: Crispen Karanda
Author-X-Name-First: Crispen
Author-X-Name-Last: Karanda
Author-Name: Nuria Toledano
Author-X-Name-First: Nuria
Author-X-Name-Last: Toledano
Title: Promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Poor Socio-Economic Contexts: Evidence from an Action Research Project in Zimbabwe — Southern Africa
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The hopes attached to social entrepreneurship for improving disadvantaged environments have spread throughout Africa, but due to the complexities characterising the continent, additional support is needed. This article analyses the promotion of social entrepreneurship led by a non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) through an action research project in Zimbabwe, southern Africa. The results suggest the need to consider the particularities of the context prior to carrying out any support measures for social entrepreneurship in disadvantaged rural areas, and the design of measures in the framework of a flexible support system which involves people from the local context.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 201-225
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1863249
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Author-Name: Ranjan Chaudhuri
Author-X-Name-First: Ranjan
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaudhuri
Author-Name: Demetris Vrontis
Author-X-Name-First: Demetris
Author-X-Name-Last: Vrontis
Author-Name: Gitesh Chavan
Author-X-Name-First: Gitesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Chavan
Author-Name: S. M. Riad Shams
Author-X-Name-First: S. M. Riad
Author-X-Name-Last: Shams
Title: Social Business Enterprises as a Research Domain: A Bibliometric Analysis and Research Direction
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The purpose of this article is to offer a synopsis of the progression in scholarly research in social business enterprises (SBE). The study entails bibliometric analysis, and bibliographic data visualisation using the Scopus database, generating alluvial diagrams using Rawgraphs platform and identification of thematic clusters in SBE research. The results of our bibliometric analysis show that there is significant growth in the number of publications in the research domain of SBE, with a thematic focus in particular areas. Our scientiometric research shall also act as a point of reference on the extant and embryonic topics, designs and methodological choices for future SBE studies.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 186-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1861477
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Author-Name: Rasheda L. Weaver
Author-X-Name-First: Rasheda L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weaver
Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Social Enterprise Sector
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social entrepreneurship are unexplored at this time. However, recent literature argues that social entrepreneurship is a critical tool for addressing issues both created and exacerbated from this virus. As such, this article aims to answer the question: What considerations should be made when examining the impact of COVID-19 on the social enterprise sector? This paper argues that close attention must be paid to social enterprise: (1) financial performance, challenges, and opportunities, (2) geographic location and its influences on opportunities or obstacles, and (3) resilience strategies employed to address issues caused or exacerbated by COVID-19.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 177-185
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1861476
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Author-Name: Isabel Garcia-Lomas
Author-X-Name-First: Isabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Garcia-Lomas
Author-Name: Patricia Gabaldon
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabaldon
Title: Gender – From Variable to Lens in Social Enterprises: A Literature Review and Research Agenda for Women’s Involvement in Social Ventures
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The link between gender and social enterprises remains relatively under-researched. In this paper, through a systematic review of 41 peer-reviewed articles published between 2002 and 2017, we provide a broad examination of women’s involvement in social enterprises. Our review helps mapping and categorising this emerging theme by clustering existing contributions in two topics drivers and outcomes. As a result, several research gaps are singled out, inducing to new theoretical and methodological suggestions where gender lens is the context and research locus.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 152-176
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1852591
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Author-Name: Kate V. Lewis
Author-X-Name-First: Kate V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis
Author-Name: Colette Henry
Author-X-Name-First: Colette
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry
Author-Name: Michael J. Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Title: Tethering Mission to Context? Exploring Narratives Underpinning the Competing Social and Financial Imperatives of Social Enterprise
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This paper is derived from a study of the mission statements of a sample of 100 United Kingdom social enterprises. The purpose of the research was to reveal what insight such organisational artefacts provide in relation to the reconciliation of inherently dual social and financial objectives. It relies on multiple phases of qualitative analysis and draws out findings across two key themes: vocabulary clusters and the contextualisation of meaning; and, the presence of rhetoric in terms of communication and strategy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 298-318
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1877182
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Author-Name: Hanna Kociemska
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kociemska
Title: Accessing Social Value from Profit-Oriented Public–Private Partnership
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This study demonstrates how to access social value from profit-oriented public–private partnership. The author examines social impact bonds (SIBs) as a tool for financing public–private investments. Using the database of worldwide SIB-financed projects, this study develops an incentive-compatible mechanism of profit write-off for social purposes (e.g. medical services for uninsured constituencies). It presents the feasibility space of this mechanism given entrepreneur, institutional boundaries. The mechanism resurfaces public–private partnerships as a vehicle where profitability and social goals can be met.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 370-389
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1966828
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Author-Name: Wee Chan Au
Author-X-Name-First: Wee Chan
Author-X-Name-Last: Au
Author-Name: Andreana Drencheva
Author-X-Name-First: Andreana
Author-X-Name-Last: Drencheva
Author-Name: Jian Li Yew
Author-X-Name-First: Jian Li
Author-X-Name-Last: Yew
Title: Narrating Career in Social Entrepreneurship: Experiences of Social Entrepreneurs
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to contribute to the scholarship on career success within the social entrepreneurship context. Based on the career accounts of eighteen social entrepreneurs in Malaysia, the study’s findings provide a nuanced perspective of the Career Success Framework and explicate career success for social entrepreneurs as multifaceted across personal and social goals. The findings provide nuance to how the four broad dimensions of the Career Success Framework (material concerns, social relations, learning and pursuing one’s own projects) are experienced and perceived in the social entrepreneurship context. The emergent career success framework of social entrepreneurs suggests that perceived career success is appraised with nine sub-dimensions captured within the broad dimensions of the Career Success Framework in ways that challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in careers research, while also highlighting the tensions social entrepreneurs face.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 343-369
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1890188
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Author-Name: Stephanie A. Fernhaber
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernhaber
Author-Name: Ronia Hawash
Author-X-Name-First: Ronia
Author-X-Name-Last: Hawash
Title: Are Expectations for Businesses That ‘Do Good’ Too High? Trade-Offs between Social and Environmental Impact
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There has been increasing pressure in recent years for firms to pursue social and environmental impact alongside profits. In this paper, the question is raised of whether or not expectations of firms to ‘do good’ are too high. Drawing on organisational identity theory, the pursuit of social and environmental impact is argued to create transitive tension. An empirical analysis of 138 Certified B Corporations confirms that a focused way of ‘doing good’ is more prevalent and that social and environment impact are negatively related. Moreover, younger firms and those firms with a minority or female owner are found to be more positively associated with social, rather than environmental, impact. Implications are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 249-267
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1874486
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Author-Name: Paul-Brian McInerney
Author-X-Name-First: Paul-Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: McInerney
Title: Measuring the Worth of Social Good: Valuation in an Emergent Non-profit Social Enterprise
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Non-profit social enterprises address social problems with business models. This paper examines the founding years of an early non-profit social enterprise in the United States to highlight the role venture capital and venture philanthropy played in shaping performance measures. While venture philanthropies funded the creation of blended value models of performance measures, other practices from venture capital, such as taking board seats and engaging in managerial oversight, were quietly playing a profound role in the financialization of performance measurement in non-profit social enterprise. The early influence of venture capital valorised quantitative performance measures, the objectivity, calculability, and commensurability of which made them attractive to key stakeholders. More recent work in performance measurement have sought to incorporate a wider range of stakeholders. However, this paper explains the legacy of venture capital in financializing performance measures with which social enterprises continue to grapple.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 319-342
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1886157
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Author-Name: Sándor Takács
Author-X-Name-First: Sándor
Author-X-Name-Last: Takács
Title: Managing the Flow Experience - The Dilemmas of Participatory Governance in Hungarian Social Enterprises
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Based on interviews with key stakeholder groups of social enterprises in Hungary, democratic practices in decision making were seen as important features of social enterprises. However, there were several comments about participatory governance’s negative effect on operational efficiency. One of the aims of the paper is to explore this controversial finding from the perspective of leaders of social enterprises. In the theoretical part we summarise the foundations of employee involvement and participation (EIP) in small businesses and social enterprises, and possible explanations of how (EIP) may impact job related flow experiences. Based on the qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with leaders of social enterprises, we propose as a hypothesis the measurement of the impact of participatory practices on flow experiences of employees and volunteers as an effective evaluation criterion for participatory governance. One interesting finding is that compared to other aspects of participation (e.g. strategic decision making and innovation) involvement in HRM practices (especially regarding the role of middle managers) in social enterprises seems to be with the most direct impact on the wellbeing and flow experiences of employees and volunteers that may be interesting for future research also calling for the examination of employees’ perspectives.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 268-297
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1874487
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Author-Name: Roy Smollan
Author-X-Name-First: Roy
Author-X-Name-Last: Smollan
Author-Name: Smita Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Smita
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Title: How Social Entrepreneurs Respond to Enterprise Failure
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Given that little research examines how social entrepreneurs respond to venture failure, the first aim of this conceptual paper is to explore the cognitive, affective and behavioural responses of social entrepreneurs to the demise of their organisations. The second aim is to explore four factors that contribute to these responses: values, motives, personality, and identity. The third aim is to compare responses to failure in social entrepreneurship to failure in commercial entrepreneurship. Literature was sought that focuses on responses to commercial and social entrepreneurship failure, supported by studies in management, organisational behaviour and social psychology. Despite the paucity of empirical research into how failure social entrepreneurs experience failure, we argue that the dual goals of social entrepreneurs (financial and social) place a more significant burden on them than commercial entrepreneurs when their enterprises fail. While negative responses are common, more constructive reactions are possible. The nature of the responses and their underlying factors are captured in a new model of responses to failure in social entrepreneurship, propositions are presented and several directions for future research are indicated.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 1-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1890189
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Author-Name: Alina Kadyrova
Author-X-Name-First: Alina
Author-X-Name-Last: Kadyrova
Title: Exploring Structures of Urban Social Innovation Ecosystems: Cases of Manchester, Utrecht, Stockholm, Sofia and Budapest
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Following the rise of academic interest in the concept of social innovation, scholarly attention turned towards the concept of social innovation ecosystems (SIE). Despite multiple emerging viewpoints on the composition and spatial level of SIE, the empirical evidence of structures of SIE is limited. Using interviews with 35 informants and documentary analysis, this paper explores structures of SIEs in Manchester, Stockholm, Utrecht, Budapest, and Sofia, and identifies features of urban and national cultures, institutional relations, networks, and infrastructures that influences social innovation activity in selected areas. The research concludes that insufficient urban-level support forces social innovators to rely on non-urban factors in supporting social innovation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 77-99
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1921013
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Author-Name: James Elvis Mbiru
Author-X-Name-First: James Elvis
Author-X-Name-Last: Mbiru
Author-Name: Mark Wickham
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Wickham
Author-Name: Desmond Tutu Ayentimi
Author-X-Name-First: Desmond Tutu
Author-X-Name-Last: Ayentimi
Title: Entrepreneurial Project Initiation Processes for Social Enterprises in a Developing Economy Context
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Project management has emerged as a theoretical construct in guiding managerial decision-making, whilst extending from its traditional dominance in the construction and engineering domain to social enterprises. This qualitative case study draws from managerial experiences, and their role in project management to examine how entrepreneurial elements are integrated into the project management initiation processes of social enterprises operating in a developing economy context. The paper identifies best-practice entrepreneurial project initiation processes. This theoretical model linking project management and corporate entrepreneurship theory provides a more insightful examination of the developmental journey of project management, whilst simultaneously incorporating the entrepreneurial notions of risk-taking, innovativeness, proactivity, creativity, and competitiveness. The paper argues that the more dynamic and complex the project environment, the stronger the appetite towards adoption of entrepreneurial project initiation processes for social enterprises.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 236-262
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1953570
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Author-Name: Mariarosa Scarlata
Author-X-Name-First: Mariarosa
Author-X-Name-Last: Scarlata
Author-Name: Luisa Alemany
Author-X-Name-First: Luisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Alemany
Author-Name: Andrew Zacharakis
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Zacharakis
Title: A Gendered View of Risk Taking in Venture Philanthropy
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Relying on gender-role congruity theory, this paper investigates the relationship between the gender of the top management teams of venture philanthropy firms and their business risk-taking orientation. The research also assesses if and how experience moderates this relationship. Using a combination of survey data to capture the venture philanthropy firm’s risk orientation and biographical data to identify managers’ gender and experience, it finds that only gender affects business risk-orientation in these firms. Surprisingly, this is the opposite direction than expected, whereby teams with a higher proportion of women have a higher risk-taking profile. This suggests the need to revise the applicability of gender role congruity theory, the existence of a gender-bind dilemma, and the relevance of context in venture philanthropy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 100-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1924840
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Author-Name: Jeonghwan Choi
Author-X-Name-First: Jeonghwan
Author-X-Name-Last: Choi
Author-Name: Kihwan Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Kihwan
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Rob Marjerison
Author-X-Name-First: Rob
Author-X-Name-Last: Marjerison
Author-Name: Bok Gyo Jeong
Author-X-Name-First: Bok Gyo
Author-X-Name-Last: Jeong
Author-Name: Sookyoung Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Sookyoung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Valerie Vaccaro
Author-X-Name-First: Valerie
Author-X-Name-Last: Vaccaro
Title: The Effects of Morality and Positivity on Social Entrepreneurial Intention
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This study investigated the dynamics of morality, positivity, and social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) of individuals. The ‘inconsistent mediation’ effects of morality and positivity were observed in relationship with SEI. The findings indicate that positive psychological capital (PsyCap) positively mediated the relationship between morality-as-cooperation (MAC) and SEI, β = .391, SE = .103, p < .001, while the direct effect of MAC on SEI was negative, β = −.174, SE = .092, p = .032. These findings can contribute to the literature on social entrepreneurial intention.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 161-181
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1942960
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Author-Name: Ireoluwatomi Oloke
Author-X-Name-First: Ireoluwatomi
Author-X-Name-Last: Oloke
Title: Transformative and Compensatory Social Enterprise Theories of Change in Discussions of Practitioners in Manitoba
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This paper considers the extent to which social enterprise practitioners’ outlook on the capacity of social enterprises to transform inequitable socio-economic systems conforms to compensatory or transformative social enterprise theories of change. Data for the study was drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with social enterprise managers and business developers in Manitoba, Canada. Study findings suggest that social enterprise practitioners can and often do hold both compensatory and transformative perspectives at the same time. In other words, while they may operate within a flawed, inequitable socio-economic system, they can also work towards the ultimate transformation of the system into a more equitable one.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 263-282
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1961286
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Author-Name: Susanne Giesecke
Author-X-Name-First: Susanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Giesecke
Author-Name: Doris Schartinger
Author-X-Name-First: Doris
Author-X-Name-Last: Schartinger
Title: The Transformative Potential of Social Innovation for, in and by Education
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One of the most important challenges for our society is how we view and organise learning and education. To respond to this challenge the European Commission stimulated a debate in order to generate forward-looking policy ideas. A specific topic addressed is the likely future development and importance of social innovation in education. The basis for this paper is a specific foresight study investigating future trends in education and supporting elements, especially with regard to the Europe 2020 strategy and the ‘Future of Learning’ agenda. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a vision of the future of social innovation in education and derive implications for the education system and policy.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 140-160
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1937283
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Author-Name: Mohammed Faiz Kamaludin
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammed Faiz
Author-X-Name-Last: Kamaludin
Author-Name: Jesrina Ann Xavier
Author-X-Name-First: Jesrina Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Xavier
Author-Name: Muslim Amin
Author-X-Name-First: Muslim
Author-X-Name-Last: Amin
Title: Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework
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In the emerging field of academic research on social entrepreneurship, studies linking social entrepreneurship to sustainability is gaining interest due to the importance of connecting these two constructs. The purpose of this study is to propose an updated conceptual framework that links social entrepreneurship to sustainability. A literature review of social entrepreneurship journals was conducted, resulting in identifying four key dimensions in social entrepreneurship which are social, economic, behaviour and governance. These four dimensions have been categorised to have an effect on social entrepreneurship and sustainability. Additionally, the theory of change and logic model are business processes that have been identified, extending into the measurement of social impact by using either the social return on impact or balanced scorecard approach to complete the conceptual framework. Hence, this study is envisioned to provide original work in the theoretical development of linking social entrepreneurship to sustainability that will benefit academicians and practitioners alike.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 26-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1900339
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Author-Name: Md. Uzzal Hossain
Author-X-Name-First: Md. Uzzal
Author-X-Name-Last: Hossain
Author-Name: Md. Shamsul Arefin
Author-X-Name-First: Md. Shamsul
Author-X-Name-Last: Arefin
Author-Name: Vimolwan Yukongdi
Author-X-Name-First: Vimolwan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yukongdi
Title: Personality Traits, Social Self-Efficacy, Social Support, and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: The Moderating Role of Gender
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This study investigates the influence of Big Five personality traits, social self-efficacy, and social support on social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) and how gender differences moderate the relationships among the associated variables. Data from business students of two public universities of Bangladesh were collected using questionnaires yielding a total sample of 354 students. Structural equation modelling (SEM) with a partial least squares method was applied to analyse the data. The findings of this study revealed that agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, emotional stability, openness, social self-efficacy, and social support significantly influence SEI. The result also showed that gender has a moderating effect on being a social entrepreneur in some instances. This study will help policymakers, and academic scholars understand how personality aspects and social support influence business students in their intention process to become social entrepreneurs. This study integrates both individual and situational factors to understand SEI. This study also incorporates social self-efficacy into SEI research. It is one of the very few studies in social entrepreneurship literature to investigate the moderating role of gender on SEI.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 119-139
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1936614
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Author-Name: Kanchan Joshi
Author-X-Name-First: Kanchan
Author-X-Name-Last: Joshi
Author-Name: Prajakta Khare
Author-X-Name-First: Prajakta
Author-X-Name-Last: Khare
Title: The Role of Local Connections in Network Configuration: A Case of Social Enterprise in India
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This paper brings together the fields of social entrepreneurship and social networks by using the social network analysis approach to map the evolution of the network of a social enterprise in India. The paper adopts a case-study approach. The paper asserts that local resources who are more proximate to the final beneficiaries, are central to a social enterprise’s network along with the social entrepreneur using the centrality measures of actors in the network, which had not been attempted in previous studies of social networks of social enterprises. The study can thus provide lessons to social enterprises in identifying local resources and positioning them in the enterprise’s network so as to optimise their utilisation. Additionally, the paper aims to throw light on high resource dynamism, a challenge that arises while leveraging these local human resources.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 50-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1900340
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Author-Name: Gisele Hidalgo
Author-X-Name-First: Gisele
Author-X-Name-Last: Hidalgo
Author-Name: Jefferson Marlon Monticelli
Author-X-Name-First: Jefferson Marlon
Author-X-Name-Last: Monticelli
Author-Name: Ingridi Vargas Bortolaso
Author-X-Name-First: Ingridi
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargas Bortolaso
Title: Social Capital as a Driver of Social Entrepreneurship
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Social entrepreneurship is a field widely explored from multiple perspectives and within multiple academic disciplines. In parallel, practitioners have applied social entrepreneurship principles to multiple sectors and on multiple levels. This research investigates how social capital applied to social entrepreneurship can contribute as a driver of social enterprise. A systematic literature review was conducted based on searches of major academic databases (Web of Science, Ebsco and Periódicos Capes), winnowing an initial list of 3,106 papers down to 472 articles that underwent content analysis. The results of this analysis were summarised and used to develop a theoretical proposal and research propositions relating social entrepreneurship to social capital and highlighting the social entrepreneur’s social connections with the collective actors and institutions that together constitute social entrepreneurship. The discussion presented suggests that the interface between social entrepreneurship and social capital is a latent field for research and the paper ends by presenting a model to consolidate research efforts, identifying three key themes that recur in the literature: Creation of social capital by the social entrepreneur, social capital and its relationship with the institutions, and Social capital as a former of groups. In these terms, a future agenda is presented for debating these issues.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 182-205
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1951819
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Author-Name: Effie Amanatidou
Author-X-Name-First: Effie
Author-X-Name-Last: Amanatidou
Author-Name: Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou
Author-X-Name-First: Eirini-Erifyli
Author-X-Name-Last: Tzekou
Author-Name: Giorgos Gritzas
Author-X-Name-First: Giorgos
Author-X-Name-Last: Gritzas
Title: Successful Niche Building by Social Innovation in Social Economy Networks and the Potential for Societal Transformation
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As current evolutions make the social economy increasingly visible and important, the paper examines the role of networking in social economy initiatives in strengthening their innovativeness capacities, and, thus, increasing their potential for societal transformation. Our analytical framework reflects the different clusters of networking relations within and outside social economy initiatives, as well as the roles of cognitive frames, skills and capacities, governance, activities, and funding under each of these networking clusters. This analysis is then applied in a particular social economy initiative, Cretamo, a consumers’ cooperative operating a grocery store in Thessaloniki, Greece. The results indicate that Cretamo has developed in the central node of an eco-system of same-minded social enterprises in the agro-food sector, offering an alternative niche to the mainstream economic model. This has changed relations both within the initiative and in its networks, while, at the same time, allows for increased innovativeness capacities. Cretamo has not yet the power to challenge the existing mainstream regime. Yet, it offers a valid alternative niche, which, combined with the socio-economic crisis still experienced in Greece and expected to intensify in the future, creates strong potential for societal transformation.
Journal: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
Pages: 206-235
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.1952478
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