The article contributes to sustainability transition research by indicating the significance of
transformative grassroots innovations in the context of social work research. We introduce …

Research summary We provide an ethnographic account of how social entrepreneurs in the
Safe Water for Africa program made sense of hybrid goods, as well as how and why those …

Enabling resources are the array of tangible and intangible assets that social entrepreneurs
mobilize or create to bring forward novel place-based initiatives, to respond to unmet …

This study explores how entrepreneurs living and working at the 'bottom of the
pyramid'overcome acute resource constraints to create something from nothing. In a …

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling
global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that …

Most of the world's poor live in developing markets and face unmet needs in core areas such
as education, health, energy, sanitation and financial services. This offers businesses a vast …

This report examines how social innovation happens in NGOs, the public sector,
movements, networks and markets. It presents an analysis of the history, the theory and the …

Social enterprises are hybrid organizational forms that combine characteristics of for-profit
businesses and community sector organizations. This article explores how rural …

This research aims to understand how resource bricolage strategy plays a role in the growth
of social enterprises in terms of their product and market. Based on interviews with nine …

Rural social enterprises are increasingly recognized as organisations that contribute to local
development by providing goods and/or services to meet community needs and by fostering …