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A Resource-Based View of Social Entrepreneurship: How Stewardship Culture Benefits Scale of Social Impact

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  • Sophie Bacq

    (Northeastern University)

  • Kimberly A. Eddleston

    (Northeastern University)

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Despite efforts to address societal ills, social enterprises face challenges in increasing their impact. Drawing from the RBV, we argue that a social enterprise’s scale of social impact depends on its capabilities to engage stakeholders, attract government support, and generate earned-income. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 171 US-based social enterprises and find support for the hypothesized relationships between these organizational capabilities and scale of social impact. Further, we find that these relationships are contingent upon stewardship culture. Specifically, we show that an entrepreneur-centered stewardship culture increases the effects of the capabilities to attract government support and to generate earned-income, while an employee-centered stewardship culture compensates for low abilities to attract government support and to generate earned-income.

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  • Sophie Bacq & Kimberly A. Eddleston, 2018. "A Resource-Based View of Social Entrepreneurship: How Stewardship Culture Benefits Scale of Social Impact," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 152(3), pages 589-611, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:152:y:2018:i:3:d:10.1007_s10551-016-3317-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3317-1
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