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Bridging Ties Across Contexts to Scale Social Value: The Case of a Vietnamese Social Enterprise

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  • Sarah Easter
  • Mary Conway Dato-On

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Social enterprises that seek to operate across multiple contexts to achieve desired outcomes require substantial reliance upon social capital. This study examines social capital within a social enterprise by addressing how complex institutional and cultural contexts contribute to unique development and leverage of social capital in such organizations. Based upon a one-year ethnographic study involving a Vietnamese social enterprise, the research provides a nuanced perspective of the focal social enterprise and the social capital tensions it encountered in operating across multiple contexts to meet social goals. It also offers a theoretical model detailing the key organizational strategies and associated internal dynamics utilized by social enterprises that will affect their potential to effectively navigate social ties across national and cultural borders.

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  • Sarah Easter & Mary Conway Dato-On, 2015. "Bridging Ties Across Contexts to Scale Social Value: The Case of a Vietnamese Social Enterprise," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 320-351, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:6:y:2015:i:3:p:320-351
    DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1049284
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    1. Islam, Syrus M., 2020. "Towards an integrative definition of scaling social impact in social enterprises," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 13(C).
    2. Syrus M Islam, 2022. "Social impact scaling strategies in social enterprises: A systematic review and research agenda," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 47(2), pages 298-321, May.

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