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Questioning the Legitimacy of Social Enterprises through Gramscian and Bourdieusian Perspectives: The Case of British Social Enterprises

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  • Katerina Nicolopoulou
  • Iain Lucas
  • Ahu Tatli
  • Mine Karatas-Ozkan
  • Laura A. Costanzo
  • Mustafa Özbilgin
  • Graham Manville

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Drawing on data from six social enterprises in the UK, this paper demonstrates that social enterprises negotiate their legitimacy borrowing from the state, the corporation and the service logics. The paper illustrates the existential crises of legitimacy as experienced in the social enterprise sector. The utility of a principled ethical approach is discussed as a way forward. The paper also outlines challenges that social enterprises face when adopting an ethical approach. Theoretical tools of Gramsci and Bourdieu are mobilized in the paper in order to render visible the often implicit and questioned structures of hegemonic power that shape the habitus of legitimacy in social enterprises.

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  • Katerina Nicolopoulou & Iain Lucas & Ahu Tatli & Mine Karatas-Ozkan & Laura A. Costanzo & Mustafa Özbilgin & Graham Manville, 2015. "Questioning the Legitimacy of Social Enterprises through Gramscian and Bourdieusian Perspectives: The Case of British Social Enterprises," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 161-185, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:6:y:2015:i:2:p:161-185
    DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.961095
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    1. Vineet Kaushik & Shobha Tewari, 2023. "Modeling Opportunity Indicators Fostering Social Entrepreneurship: A Hybrid Delphi and Best-Worst Approach," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 168(1), pages 667-698, August.

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