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Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects

In: Social Enterprises

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  • Paul-Brian McInerney

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The standard definition of a social enterprise is an organization that applies business-like structures and practices to produce social, as opposed to private, returns (Bielefeld, 2006; Dart, 2004b). Social enterprises blend values and practices from different institutional domains to produce new hybrid organizational forms (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Cooney, 2006; Hasenfeld and Gidron, 2005). The evolution of hybrid organizational forms in institutionalized organizational fields presents theoretical challenges to scholars of organizations: Can such hybrids coexist alongside pure (legitimate) forms? Can they overcome legitimacy challenges to become the new taken-for-granted organizational form? How are hybrids innovative? How do they challenge incumbents in institutionalized organizational fields?

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  • Paul-Brian McInerney, 2012. "Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Benjamin Gidron & Yeheskel Hasenfeld (ed.), Social Enterprises, chapter 7, pages 162-184, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-03530-1_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137035301_8
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    1. Dedeurwaerdere, Tom & Hannachi, Mourad, 2019. "Socio-economic drivers of coexistence of landraces and modern crop varieties in agro-biodiversity rich Yunnan rice fields," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 159(C), pages 177-188.

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