Holding on to the Anomaly of Social Entrepreneurship Dilemmas in Starting up and Running a Fair-Trade Enterprise

Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship

“…Moreover, the conflicting demands and expectations between social entrepreneurs, institutions and business actors are challenging (e.g. Berglund and Schwartz ; Dees ; Katre and Salipante ) and may inhibit value sharing within the value network.…”

Managing the dance of enchantment: An ethnography of social entrepreneurship events

“…Often framed as a counter-project to idealistic presentations, investigations into 'the language of social entrepreneurs' critically reassess and problematise popular autobiographies (Dempsey and Sanders, 2010) and trace how practitioners make sense of, appropriate or rewrite commonly held assumptions of social entrepreneurship (Mauksch, 2012;Parkinson and Howorth, 2008). They unravel the ambiguous and arduous juggling acts of practically combining the social with the entrepreneurial (Berglund and Schwartz, 2013), but also make it apparent that instead of naively 'buying into' grand rhetorics, practitioners engage with this discourse in reflective, playful or even subversive ways (Dey and Teasdale, 2015;Seanor and Meaton, 2008).…”

“…Moreover, given on the basis of this study that social entrepreneurship events form a favourable ground for persuasion by linking the concept to actors' bodily and emotional realms, the question arises as to what happens once the participants leave the event's heated atmosphere. Transferring the lens of an agentic 'dance' to the context of social entrepreneurial practice presents a possibility of engaging with dilemmas, frictions and tensions (Berglund and Schwartz, 2013) in a less static and more processual way that distinguishes, in a temporal sense, between different states of re-/ dis-/enchantment within the trajectory of a social enterprise. How do social entrepreneurship 'converts' uphold the 'enchanted' aspects of their work and avoid feelings of disillusionment?…”

“…Contrary to this trend, emergent critical voices are engaging in exposing discursive politics (Dart, 2004;Nicholls, 2010b) and 'busting myths' connected with the concept (Dey and Steyaert, in press;Teasdale et al, 2013), thus lending visibility to powerful acts of conviction that present the concept as a natural answer to unresolved problems. These contributions develop space for counterintuitive insights such as dilemmatic situations (Berglund and Schwartz, 2013), failure and ambiguity (Seanor and Meaton, 2008) and acts of disidentification (Dey and Teasdale, 2015) that emerge from practitioners' narratives. By grounding analysis almost exclusively in the narrative production of discourse, however, critical contributions confine themselves to scrutinising the ways in which language effects-rather than material formations and physical encounter-contribute to the ideal's expansion.…”

Probing the power of entrepreneurship discourse: an immanent critique

“…Social entrepreneurship envisions the ideal development organization as a combination of market efficiency, business savvy and financial selfsufficiency as requisite ingredients for accomplishing social ends (Chand, 2009). While social enterprises retain many of the positive features related to entrepreneurship such as innovation, performance and a heroic outlook (Dey and Steyaert, 2010), it adds to it an almost evangelical belief that social and economic objectives can be combined in such a way that it produces largely positive, win-win situations (Hervieux, Gedajlovic and Turcotte, 2010; for a worthwhile critique compare with Berglund and Schwartz, 2013).…”