Weaving together entrepreneurial leadership in social enterprises: a collective achievement towards social purpose

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Chrysavgi Sklaveniti ◽  
Vicky Tzoumpa
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Entrepreneurial Leadership ◽  
Social Purpose

scholarly journals Challenges Facing Social Enterprises in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Abramson ◽  
Kara C. Billings
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Hybrid Organizations ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The U.S

AbstractHybrid organizations that combine social purpose and profit motive appear to have grown significantly in number in the U.S. in recent decades. However, these organizations, which we call “social enterprises,” face challenges that impede their growth and hinder their ability to deliver greater benefits. To better understand what these challenges are, this paper surveys the growing literature on social enterprises which suggests that social enterprises now face these major obstacles: ill-fitting legal forms, obstacles to effective governance, problems in evaluating impact, weak supportive networks, difficulties in raising funding, and management tensions. Deepening understanding of the challenges facing social enterprises should help guide those interested in strengthening public policy toward social enterprise and other aspects of the support system for these organizations.

scholarly journals Slowed Down Economisation: The Persistence of Alternative Trade Organisations

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Nadine Arnold ◽  
Isabel Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Alternative Trade

Abstract Have Swiss Alternative Trade Organizations (ATOs) valorized economic aspects at the expense of their social mission for the longer term? From a historical perspective (1974–2013), this article shows how these social enterprises have maintained their social purpose and inhibited the course of organizational economization. We identify three deceleration strategies: involving volunteers, direct trading partnerships with producers, focusing on the sales niche. The article shows how and why economization processes are malleable and not inevitable.

scholarly journals National Social Investment Funds: The U.K.’s Early Experience of Big Society Capital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Early Experience ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Big Society ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Commercial Markets ◽  
Important Barrier

Over the last 15 years or so, Canadian social enterprises have consistently identified lack of access to financing as an important barrier to their growth and sustainability (e.g., Bridge & Corriveau 2009; Mulholland et al 2011; Treurnicht 2011; McIsaac & Moody 2013; Malhotra et al. 2010; Flatt et al. 2013; CTFSF 2010). Social enterprises in other jurisdictions have echoed a similar complaint (e.g., SEUK 2011, 2013). The same period has also witnessed the emergence of “social investment markets” in several jurisdictions. Social investment markets offer the promise of providing social enterprises and other social purpose organizations with the types and amount of financing they need, outside of mainstream commercial markets. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Social Enterprise in Quebec: Understanding Their "Institutional Footprint"

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie J. Bouchard ◽  
Paulo Cruz Filho ◽  
Tassadit Zerdani
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social

This article explores how the social enterprise concept is used in Québec. Focusing on the historical, institutional, and current conceptual understanding of the social economy in Québec, it explores the related definitions, terminology, and typologies currently in use. The term “social enterprise” is near absent in Québec, mainly due to the highly recognized notion of social economy. However, not all Québec enterprises that pursue social goals fit into the social economy institutional definition. This article proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the modalities of Québec’s field of social economy and other social purpose enterprises. It suggests that “social enterprises” in Québec are those that participate in the social purposes of the social economy without sharing the core and institutionalized characteristics of social economy enterprises.Cet article explore l’usage du terme « entreprise sociale » au Québec. Se basant sur des aspects historiques, institutionnels et conceptuels, l’article explore les définitions et les typologies qui ont cours aujourd’hui. L’expression « entreprise sociale » est rarement mentionnée, dû à la forte reconnaissance de l’économie sociale. Toutefois, il existe des entreprises au Québec qui, tout en poursuivant des objectifs sociaux, ne correspondent pas à la définition institutionnelle de l’économie sociale. La principale contribution de cet article est de proposer un cadre conceptuel pour comprendre le champ de l’économie sociale et des autres entreprises à finalité sociale. Il suggère que les « entreprises sociales » sont celles qui participent aux objectifs sociaux de l’économie sociale mais qui n’en ont pas les caractéristiques institutionnelles.

From Hybrid Organizations to Social-purpose Hierarchies: Toward a Transaction Cost Economics of Social Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Agafonow
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Hybrid Organizations ◽  
Transaction Cost Theory ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Governance Costs

Building on Oliver E. Williamson’s work, this article lays the basis for a transaction cost theory of social enterprises. It is submitted that the more proprietary-centred the creation of value is, the lower the governance costs of economizing on bounded rationality to protect patrons from the hazard of opportunism. Since not all productive activities can be organized within the range of the lowest governance costs, a discrete structural analysis is developed, with different ranges of governance costs suitable for different purposes depending on the kinds of value creation intended and the class of patrons to be protected. Accepting higher governance costs is justified by preventing the exploitation of bargaining asymmetries at the expense of selected classes of patrons like disadvantaged customers and stakeholders at large, subject to what is feasible, or Williamson’s remediableness standard. JEL: D23, M14

Alternative organizing with social purpose: revisiting institutional analysis of market-based activity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mair ◽  
Nikolas Rathert
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Comparative Capitalism ◽  
Institutional Contexts

AbstractGiven rampant economic inequality, social exclusion and overconsumption, organizing in markets increasingly focuses on leveraging commercial activity for a social purpose. Alternative forms of organizing have developed to overcome the deficiencies of contemporary capitalism. They have become prevalent in numerous institutional contexts through types of organizations such as social enterprises, cooperatives and platform-based sharing economy organizations. Our objective is to ignite research on alternative organizing. We build on two important institutional perspectives, Neo-institutionalism and Comparative Capitalism, to investigate how these organizations diverge from the archetypal corporation. In addition, we develop a framework to guide institutional analysis of the origins, enabling conditions and consequences of alternative organizing in contemporary markets and society. We conclude by laying out pathways for future research.

ABOUT A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE...

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 445-455
Author(s):  
Tomasz Gardziński
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Business People ◽  
Social Innovations

A social enterprise is an innovative phenomenon in which every day entrepreneurial problems are solved by an entrepreneurial initiative of cooperating individuals. Espe-cially in regions with large social and human capital, among communities with high trust, sensitivity and a sense of common social purpose in business, people discover that together we can do more, especially in our small homelands that constitute the microcosm of economic life. The aim of the article is to show that in the era of rapid technological progress, social innovations are a boundary condition for the survival of not only social enterprises, but also commercial ones, which to a smaller or larger extent also realize or can achieve social goals.

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