Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Zhang, David Di; Swanson, Lee A.

doi:10.1080/19420676.2014.880503

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“…Doherty et al (2014) themselves contribute to the emerging theoretical discourse in this field by using the theoretical concept of hybridity to problematize the contemporary challenge of managing an organization which has a dual economic and social mission. In other recent theoretical contributions, Zhang and Swanson (2014) also propose a process model to link the constructs of social enterprise and sustainability and Newth and Woods (2014) explore how Schumpeterian theories of resistance can explain how the expectations of stakeholders shape the innovations social entrepreneurs produce and the ways they often succeed because of resistance rather than in spite of it. Finally, in exploring the sociology of social enterprise, Dufays and Huybrechts (2014) use social network theory to explain how and why social entrepreneurship arises through bridging the micro (individual entrepreneur) and macro (socio-economic drivers) levels of analysis.…”

Section: Theories Of Social Enterprise In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Building a new third construction sector through social enterprise

Loosemore

2015

Construction Management and Economics

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Social enterprises are profit-making businesses which trade for a social purpose. They bridge the gap between welfare and work, providing employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups often excluded from employment in the construction industry. Social enterprises are a fast-growing part of a larger third economic sector. However, compared to other industries, there are relatively few social enterprises operating in construction and little is known about the challenges they face in doing so. In-depth interviews at 12 UK social enterprises reveal that many of the challenges faced by social enterprises in the construction industry are similar to those faced by social enterprises operating in other industries. These include: building trust, managing hybridity; securing finance; measuring social impact; and achieving scale. However, in addressing the lack of sector-specific insights in social enterprise research, challenges unique to construction are also identified. These include: procurement practices which favour industry incumbents; costly tender bureaucracy; established supply chain relationships; lack of experience of working with social enterprises; disingenuous corporate social responsibility practices; and fear that social enterprises will reduce competitiveness. Recommendations are made to resolve these challenges, enabling the construction sector to create an ecosystem where social enterprises can thrive. Questions to guide future research into this unexplored area are also proposed.

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Section: Theories Of Social Enterprise In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Building a new third construction sector through social enterprise

Loosemore

2015

Construction Management and Economics

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“…These differences can determine the extent of government support for SE [122]. Scholars argue that government support in the form of providing tangible and intangible resources can enhance SE [10,72]. Tangible resources include grants, subsidies, and funding [30], and intangible resources include assistance with completing grant applications, providing endorsements, and sponsoring activities that facilitate networking between like-minded entrepreneurs or with other stakeholders in the environment [123].…”

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“…Social entrepreneurship (SE) as a body of knowledge has therefore gained attention due to its promising potential for alleviating problems such as poverty and illiteracy [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and "carries particular relevancy for sustainability research in entrepreneurship" [9] (p.21). Social entrepreneurial processes address not only economic sustainability, social sustainability, and ecological sustainability [10], but also psychological sustainability [11].…”

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“…The more these formal and informal institutions support individual agency, the stronger will be the effects of CLTs on the likelihood of individuals becoming social entrepreneurs. Specifically, we review literature to understand the role of country-level government effectiveness and societal trust, two contextual factors that strengthen individuals' agency beliefs and make it easier for them to access the resources required for their enterprises [10,30,50].…”

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“…Government effectiveness, which is a formal institution, ensures that resources are made easily available for individuals engaging in SE [10,30]. Similarly, informal institutions, such as generalized interpersonal trust (societal trust), also form a basis on which these individuals establish credibility to garner resources for their social enterprises [50].…”

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Consequences of Cultural Leadership Styles for Social Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Framework

Muralidharan

Pathak

2019

Sustainability

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The purpose of this conceptual article is to understand how the interplay of national-level institutions of culturally endorsed leadership styles, government effectiveness, and societal trust affects individual likelihood to become social entrepreneurs. We present an institutional framework comprising cultural leadership styles (normative institutions), government effectiveness (regulatory institutions), and societal trust (cognitive institutions) to predict individual likelihood of social entrepreneurship. Using the insight of culture–entrepreneurship fit and drawing on institutional configuration perspective we posit that culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories (CLTs) of charismatic and participatory leadership positively impact the likelihood of individuals becoming social entrepreneurs. Further, we posit that this impact is particularly pronounced when a country’s regulatory quality manifested by government effectiveness is supportive of social entrepreneurship and when there exist high levels of societal trust. Research on CLTs and their impact on entrepreneurial behavior is limited. We contribute to comparative entrepreneurship research by introducing a cultural antecedent of social entrepreneurship in CLTs and through a deeper understanding of their interplay with national-level institutions to draw the boundary conditions of our framework.

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The financial and green effects of cultural values on mission drifts in European social enterprises

Esposito

Doronzo²,

Dicorato

2022

Bus Strat Env

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The sustainable social enterprises (SEs) literature shows that SEs have to simultaneously pursue economic, social, and environmental aims. However, tensions between these objectives can make this a challenging task and lead towards mission drift. This work investigates if the cultural dimension can forecast the mission drift. We empirically analyze this relationship in three stages. In the first stage, we identify a homogeneous dataset of 287 sustainable SEs from seven EU countries from 2011 to 2020. Then, in the second stage, we apply the data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology to calculate the efficiency of the SEs. An efficient SE has to simultaneously achieve social, environmental, and economic aims. We calculate a proxy of the mission drift and generate a dichotomous category variable that assigns value 1 to the SE not affected by mission drift, 0 otherwise. In the last stage, we implement the 2SLS logistic regression between the variable that identifies the SEs affected by mission drift and three cultural dimensions: avoidance of uncertainty, masculinity, and short‐term orientation.

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Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Cited by 65 publications

References 65 publications

Building a new third construction sector through social enterprise

Building a new third construction sector through social enterprise

Consequences of Cultural Leadership Styles for Social Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Framework

The financial and green effects of cultural values on mission drifts in European social enterprises

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