Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here.

Dacin, Peter A.; Dacin, M. Tina; Matear, Margaret

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“…Second, we consider how existing organizational theories explain the nature and management of these tensions. In line with other multi-theoretical approaches to social enterprises (Dacin, Dacin, & Tracey, 2011;Dacin, Dacin, & Matear, 2010;Mair & Martí, 2006), we organize this section around four theories previous applied to this phenomenon-institutional theory, organizational identity, stakeholder theory, and paradox theory. Our analysis of these theoretical lenses shows how they can provide robust insights into social enterprises and identifies critical issues for further research within each perspective.…”

Section: Business Ethics Quarterlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Social-Business Tensions: A Review and Research Agenda for Social Enterprises

Gonin

Besharov

Smith

2013

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In a world filled with poverty, environmental degradation, and moral injustice, social enterprises offer a ray of hope. These organizations seek to achieve social missions through business ventures. Yet social missions and business ventures are associated with divergent goals, values, norms, and identities. Attending to them simultaneously creates tensions, competing demands, and ethical dilemmas. Effectively understanding social enterprises therefore depends on insight into the nature and management of these tensions. While existing research recognizes tensions between social missions and business ventures, we lack any systematic analysis. Our paper addresses this issue. We first categorize the types of tensions that arise between social missions and business ventures, emphasizing their prevalence and variety. We then explore how four different organizational theories offer insight into these tensions, and we develop an agenda for future research. We end by arguing that a focus on social-business tensions not only expands insight into social enterprises, but also provides an opportunity for research on social enterprises to inform traditional organizational theories. Taken together, our analysis of tensions in social enterprises integrates and seeks to energize research on this expanding phenomenon. Michael GoninUniversity of Zurich and University of Lausanne Marya L. BesharovCornell University ABSTRACT: In a world filled with poverty, environmental degradation, and moral injustice, social enterprises offer a ray of hope. These organizations seek to achieve social missions through business ventures. Yet social missions and business ventures are associated with divergent goals, values, norms, and identities. Attending to them simultaneously creates tensions, competing demands, and ethical dilemmas. Effectively understanding social enterprises therefore depends on insight into the nature and management of these tensions. While existing research recognizes tensions between social missions and business ventures, we lack any systematic analysis. Our paper addresses this issue. We first categorize the types of tensions that arise between social missions and business ventures, emphasizing their prevalence and variety. We then explore how four different organizational theories offer insight into these tensions, and we develop an agenda for future research. We end by arguing that a focus on social-business tensions not only expands insight into social enterprises, but also provides an opportunity for research on social enterprises to inform traditional organizational theories. Taken together, our analysis of tensions in social enterprises integrates and seeks to energize research on this expanding phenomenon.

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Section: Business Ethics Quarterlymentioning

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Managing Social-Business Tensions: A Review and Research Agenda for Social Enterprises

Gonin

Besharov

Smith

2013

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“…The contrast between SE and commercial entrepreneurship constitutes an appropriate starting point to consider more concrete organizational features of the strategies and actions preferred by social entrepreneurs as opposed to their for-profit peer (Agafonow, 2014;Dacin, Dacin & Matear, 2010). The concept of SE means different things to different people and researchers.…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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“…While entrepreneurial phenomena aimed at economic development have received a great amount of scholarly attention (Dacin, Dacin & Matear, 2010), entrepreneurship as a process to foster social progress has only recently attracted the interest of researchers (Jensen, 2014). The concept of social entrepreneurship is still poorly defined and its boundaries to other fields of study remain ambiguous (Agafonow, 2014;Dacin, Dacin & Matear, 2010;Jensen, 2014).…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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“…The concept of social entrepreneurship is still poorly defined and its boundaries to other fields of study remain ambiguous (Agafonow, 2014;Dacin, Dacin & Matear, 2010;Jensen, 2014). While early studies centered on the question of how the personality or background of the entrepreneur determines entrepreneurial behavior today, it is widely recognized that the focus of entrepreneurship research should be entrepreneurial process or behavior (Finke & Stark, 2005).…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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African American Church Social Entrepreneurship as Macro Social Work

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Marquez²,

Nichols³

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As does the profession of Social Work, the African American church has a long history of taking active roles in helping communities in times of social change. Given this commonality and because the African American church has repeatedly demonstrated what could reasonably be considered successful macro social work, it is believed that social workers would benefit from being informed about African American church community involvement from a macro social work perspective. The concept is explored through a discussion of African American Church Social Entrepreneurship as a macro social work response to African American community gentrification.

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“…These social activities and services were initially carried out within the context of social cooperatives, benefitting the cooperative's members, and then extended their field of action to the benefit of society at large (Defourny and Nyssens, 2012). This development of the social cooperatives gave rise to what was later to be called "social enterprise," characterized by social ends being pursued in combination with the performance of an economic activity that addresses the market and is managed with business logic (Reis and Clohesy, 2001;Alter, 2007; P. Dacin, T. Dacin, and Matear, 2010;Weber, 2012).…”

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Corporate Social Innovation in Comparison with Corporate Social Responsibility: Integration, Development or Replacement?

Popoli¹

2017

IBR

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The purpose of this paper is to provide conceptual insights as to the social dimension of businesses and how it fits into the principles of strategic management of for-profit enterprise. This issue is analyzed with reference to the three paradigms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), social innovation, and corporate social innovation (CSI). Although there have been many studies and a great deal of research on these issues, the qualitative and quantitative analyses done so far have generally analyzed the three paradigms separately, while there has been no analysis of the logical links among them. After identifying CSI as the link in the chain between CSR and social innovation, this paper poses the question of what linkage exists between the two paradigms of CSI and CSR, and in particular of whether CSI integrates, develops, or replaces CSR. In terms of method, the paper is conceptually developed on the basis of the prevailing international literature and secondary data.

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Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here.

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