IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jsocen/v16y2025i1p46-67.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Investigating the ‘Mission and Profit’ Paradox: Case Study of an Ecopreneurial Organisation in India

Author

Listed:
  • Sumita Ketkar
  • Roma Puri

Abstract

Based on a case study of a waste management services provider in India, this paper sets out to investigate how an ecopreneurial organisation balances the competing demands of environmental mission and profit generation. Results indicate that two internal organisational mechanisms, namely Leadership, and Organisational Processes, are instrumental in achieving the dual goals. The paper highlights the role of contextual factors in supporting such organisations, and in doing so, it responds to the call for research to examine social entrepreneurship in wider contexts including Asia, Latin America, and Africa, to address ‘marginalisation’ of studies in the field.

Suggested Citation

  • Sumita Ketkar & Roma Puri, 2025. "Investigating the ‘Mission and Profit’ Paradox: Case Study of an Ecopreneurial Organisation in India," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 46-67, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:16:y:2025:i:1:p:46-67
    DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2132277
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19420676.2022.2132277
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/19420676.2022.2132277?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:16:y:2025:i:1:p:46-67. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RJSE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.