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The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across local communities

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  • Seelos, Christian

    (IESE Business School)

  • Mair, Johanna

    (IESE Business School)

  • Battilana, Julie

    (Harvard Business School)

  • Dacin, M. Tina

    (Queen's School of Business)

Abstract

Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim of achieving social goals. SEOs have been seen as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variations in local institutional mechanisms shape the local "face of poverty" in different communities and how this relates to variations in the emergence and strategic orientations of SEOs. We develop a model of the productive opportunity space for SEOs as a basis of, and an inspiration for, further scholarly inquiry.

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  • Seelos, Christian & Mair, Johanna & Battilana, Julie & Dacin, M. Tina, 2010. "The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across local communities," IESE Research Papers D/858, IESE Business School.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebg:iesewp:d-0858
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    1. Eduard-Gabriel Ceptureanu & Sebastian-Ion Ceptureanu & Mihai Cristian Orzan & Ovidiu Niculae Bordean & Violeta Radulescu, 2017. "Empirical Study on Sustainable Opportunities Recognition. A Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Joinery Industry Analysis Using Augmented Sustainable Development Process Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-36, September.
    2. Olawale Fatoki, 2019. "Determinants of Social Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students in South Africa," Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, AMH International, vol. 10(6), pages 72-80.
    3. Fatih Ozturk, 2014. "A Comparative Social Enterprise Analysis: Motives, Processes and Barriers (Analiza porownawcza przedsiebiorstw spolecznych – motywy, procesy i bariery)," Research Reports, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 1(17), pages 86-97.

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    social entrepreneurship; Social mechanisms; poverty; opportunity; institutions;
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