Navigating Social and Institutional Barriers to Markets: How Social Entrepreneurs Identify and Evaluate Opportunities

Social Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities

“…Our findings suggest that social purpose ventures possess dynamic capabilities for creating community or ecosystems, not just ventures, in order to provide sustainable solutions to long standing social problems. This finding echoes a theme identified by others who argue that institutions and infrastructure must be created alongside of ventures in order to effectively address intractable social problems (Mair & Marti, 2009;Peredo & Chrisman, 2006;Robinson, 2006). Findings thus show that the process of social purpose venture creation may well engender more than just the venture itself; it may structure capability platforms upon which others can build.…”

“…Existing literature describes these environments as resource constrained (Di Domenico et al, 2010;Hall et al, 2012;Peredo & Chrisman, 2006) lacking basic resources that are taken for granted in more economically developed regions (Mair & Marti, 2009;Robinson, 2006). Our evidence suggests that, given this resource scarcity, social entrepreneurs devote substantial time to cobbling together disparate resources imaginatively.…”

“…The environments faced by social entrepreneurs are not only resource poor but also lack infrastructure and institutions that are taken for granted in more developed regions (Mair & Marti, 2009;Robinson, 2006). Such environments often do not have well developed networks that social entrepreneurs from outside the region can link into when trying to develop a product or venture that solves a social problem (Peredo & Chrisman, 2006).…”

Connecting the Dots for Social Value: A Review on Social Networks and Social Entrepreneurship

“…These needs may stem from the exclusion of the economy, such as barriers to enter the labour market or to get access to health (Monllor 2010). The perception of entry barriers by social entrepreneurs in certain markets is shown to significantly influence social entrepreneurship opportunity recognition (Robinson 2006). Besides the exclusion argument, Defourny and Delvetere (1999) identify two driving forces to the development of social enterprises: a condition of necessity and a sense of belonging to a social group sharing a collective identity and destiny.…”

Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship: Conceptual Clarity and Implication in Nepalese Context

“…However it has been anemerging and global phenomenon that influences the society through innovative approaches for solving social problems. (Robinson, 2006).Thus it is imperative to synthesize the diverse viewpoint, observation and findings to reap the possible future ~ 144 b enefit of the field for researchers and business.…”