Towards a ‘Long View’: Historical Perspectives on the Scaling and Replication of Social Ventures

Blundel, Richard; Lyon, Fergus

doi:10.1080/19420676.2014.954258

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“…The social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship constitute the majority of social innovations, that is, the innovative thoughts and decision-making process for social purposes [37,[39][40][41]. To solve social problems, social entrepreneurs devise new products using appropriate technology.…”

Section: Social Economy and Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Enterprise as a Catalyst for Sustainable Local and Regional Development

Kim

Lim

2017

Sustainability

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This study aims to present an integrated theoretical framework of sustainable local and regional development with an emphasis on social economy theory. The theoretical literature on social economy and sustainable local and regional development are reviewed and integrated focusing on the obstacles of sustainability and the function of social economy in local and regional development. Conflict and competition among sustainability values necessitates agreement and cooperation among those who embrace such values. Social enterprises are the core components of a social economy that reflects local and regional needs and pursues complex goals. In the social innovation process, social enterprises collaborate with various stakeholders regarding their business and social goals. Social enterprises have positive effects that influence local and regional development by satisfying local and regional needs, creating jobs in the community, developing relational assets in business processes, and restoring community solidarity. In social economy theory, social enterprises can facilitate sustainable local and regional development by including relational assets which embody social capital in social innovation processes. In the context of local and regional development, relational assets are important reinforcements of institutional capabilities, networks, and community or regional cooperation. Although social enterprises are not the dominant resources in traditional local and regional development, they can solve problems related to collective actions by networking and applying social norms to the situation.

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Section: Social Economy and Social Enterprisementioning

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Social Enterprise as a Catalyst for Sustainable Local and Regional Development

Kim

Lim

2017

Sustainability

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“…For the terms "Scale-Up", Gazelle or high-growth firm and their variations in the field of Management and Economics, five articles were identified (Blundel & Lyon, 2015;A. Coad, Nielsen, & Timmermans, 2017;A.…”

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“…Foram encontrados quatro artigos com esta combinação de termos (Blundel & Lyon, 2015;A. Coad et al, 2017).…”

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“…"international business" ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( DOCTYPE , "ar " ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI " OR "scaleup*" OR "ScaleUP*" OR "Scaleup*" OR gazelle* OR "high-growth firm*" OR "High growth firm*" ) AND ( network* ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( DOCTYPE , "ar " ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI " OR "scaleup*" OR "ScaleUP*" OR "Scaleup*" OR gazelle* OR "high-growth firm*" OR "High growth firm*" ) AND ( "born global*" ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( DOCTYPE , "ar " ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI ") (Brown et al, 2017) (A. Coad et al, 2017) (A. Coad et al, 2016)(Blundel & Lyon, 2015) ( "scaleup*" OR "scaleup*" OR "ScaleUP*" OR "Scaleup*" OR gazelle* OR "high-growth firm*" OR "High growth firm*" ) AND ( "entreprene*" ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( DOCTYPE , "ar " ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI " OR "scaleup*" OR "ScaleUP*" OR "Scaleup*" OR gazelle* OR "high-growth firm*" OR "High growth firm*" ) AND ( "international entreprene*" ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( DOCTYPE , "ar " ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI "…”

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O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

2018

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This work analyzed the pertinent literature, identifying possible relationships between the high growth of scale-up enterprises and their internationalization process. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted in the fields of International Business to pinpoint intersections and gaps in the research for empirical exploration and investigation. The results of the analysis are intended to identify possibilities and make theoretical contributions to the field, especially with regard to small and medium-sized ventures. The bibliographic review was conducted using the Google Scholar and Scopus databases. These bases were chosen for their relevance, range and accuracy. Google Scholar is considered the best system for tracing websites and academic PDFs, while Scopus is recognized as the largest scientific database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature. To complement the survey, Scopus metadata analysis resources and NVivo 11 software were used to analyze the content of articles. The findings did not identify a relationship between internationalization and the phenomenon of Scale-ups in the literature in the field of International Business and high growth.

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“…While the importance of the relationship between social enterprises and local government is thus recognised, research on the nature of this relationship has mainly focused on the hybridity of organizational forms (Doherty et al 2014), the measurement of performance of social enterprises with local government as stakeholder (Blundel and Lyon 2015;Crucke and Decramer 2016) and the embeddedness of local policies towards social entrepreneurship in the broader national policy context, often with special focus on the British perspective (Defourny 2014;Ridley-Duff and Bull 2015;Sepulveda 2015). In a study on the relationship between the public sector at different levels and social entrepreneurship in Sweden, Gawell finds 'a negotiation of emerging markets in which both services but also relationships are negotiated' (Gawell 2014, p. 264).…”

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Developing stereotypes to facilitate dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government

2018

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Social enterprises and government share the ultimate goal of solving societal problems, which provides a lot of potential for collaboration between the two parties. While the local government level is the most relevant for social enterprises, little research has been done on the relationship between social entrepreneurs and local government officials. However, in the Netherlands, social enterprises experience these relations as far from optimal, evidenced by the fact that they named 'regulations and government policy' as the most important obstacle for increasing their impact in a 2015 sector survey. Therefore, a pilot project was started with social entrepreneurs in an Amsterdam neighbourhood, forming a learning network aiming to improve relations with local government. In the network, an innovative tool was developed in the form of a set of five illustrated stereotypes of social entrepreneurs with certain views towards local government. These stereotypes serve both as a reflection tool for social entrepreneurs and as a communication tool to open dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government. We conclude that in an applied research project, it is crucial to place focus on the final phases in which results are reformulated into practical tools to match target groups, and resulting tools are distributed through targeted events and publications.

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Towards a ‘Long View’: Historical Perspectives on the Scaling and Replication of Social Ventures

Cited by 55 publications

References 61 publications

Social Enterprise as a Catalyst for Sustainable Local and Regional Development

Social Enterprise as a Catalyst for Sustainable Local and Regional Development

O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Developing stereotypes to facilitate dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government

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