Social or commercial? Innovation strategies in social enterprises at times of turbulence

T Ramus, B La Cara, A Vaccaro… - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2018 - cambridge.org
In this study, we investigate how different internal and external stakeholders influence the
innovation strategy of a social enterprise to adopt product, process, and partnership …

[HTML][HTML] The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations

M Martiskainen - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2017 - Elsevier
This article focuses on the role of community leadership in the development of grassroots
innovations. It asks: When community leaders initiate energy projects, what types of skills …

Fit for purpose? Clarifying the critical role of profit for sustainability

JB Hinton - Journal of political ecology, 2020 - journals.uair.arizona.edu
This conceptual article contributes to the post-growth strand of political ecology literature,
which seeks to find sustainable ways of organizing the economy that do not require …

Valuing value in innovation ecosystems: How cross-sector actors overcome tensions in collaborative sustainable business model development

I Oskam, B Bossink, AP de Man - Business & society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article aims to uncover the processes of developing sustainable business models in
innovation ecosystems. Innovation ecosystems with sustainability goals often consist of …

Hybrid harvesting strategies to overcome resource constraints: Evidence from social enterprises in Kenya

G Ciambotti, M Pedrini - Journal of Business Ethics, 2021 - Springer
Hybrid organisations combine different elements from the for-profit and non-profit domains,
and they usually operate in a resource-scarce environment. For these reasons, they …

How social enterprises can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)–A conceptual framework

D Littlewood, D Holt - Entrepreneurship and the sustainable …, 2018 - emerald.com
In the recent 2015 report by Social Enterprise UK–Think Global Trade Social–it is argued
that social enterprises have an important role to play in the achievement of the UN's new …

Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

G Seyfang, A Haxeltine - Environment and Planning C …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in particular)
demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of provision. An academic …

[HTML][HTML] Rural social enterprises as embedded intermediaries: The innovative power of connecting rural communities with supra-regional networks

R Richter - Journal of Rural Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
The question of how social enterprises foster social innovation in rural regions remains
largely unexplored. In this paper, I develop the assumption that the embeddedness of social …

The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across local communities

C Seelos, J Mair, J Battilana… - Communities and …, 2011 - emerald.com
Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to
achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the potential of rural social enterprise

A Steiner, S Teasdale - Journal of Rural Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we argue that social enterprise could represent a means of tackling rural
challenges of providing sustainable economic development, addressing the withdrawal of …