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Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service versus Market

In: Social Enterprises

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  • Eve Garrow
  • Yeheskel Hasenfeld

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Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) are human service organizations that provide employment opportunities and job training to people with employment barriers. Although the work experiences function primarily as a component of their social services, WISEs also produce and sell products or services on the market. Thus the social enterprise functions as both social service and revenue generator. In pursuing the ‘double bottom line’, the WISE is frequently heralded as a potentially self-sustaining economic model in which the market is cleverly harnessed in service of a social mission (see e.g. Borzaga and Defourny, 2001; Schorr, 2006; Brozek, 2009). In fact, it is often noted that commercial earnings in excess of operating costs can cross-subsidize other social programs, rendering additional social value (Alter, 2006).

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  • Eve Garrow & Yeheskel Hasenfeld, 2012. "Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service versus Market," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Benjamin Gidron & Yeheskel Hasenfeld (ed.), Social Enterprises, chapter 5, pages 121-143, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-03530-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137035301_6
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    Cited by:

    1. Philip T. Roundy & Michaël Bonnal, 2017. "The Singularity of Social Entrepreneurship: Untangling its Uniqueness and Market Function," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 26(2), pages 137-162, September.
    2. Kunal Y. Sevak & LaKami Baker, 2022. "Need‐resource indicators and nonprofit human services organization density," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 93(1), pages 129-160, March.
    3. Silvana Secinaro & Luigi Corvo & Valerio Brescia & Daniel Iannaci, 2019. "Hybrid Organizations: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(11), pages 1-21, November.

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