Social entrepreneurship in non-munificent institutional environments and implications for institutional work: Insights from China

B Bhatt, I Qureshi, S Riaz - Journal of Business Ethics, 2019 - Springer
We investigate the research question: Why are there very few social enterprises in China?
Our findings unpack four types of institutional challenges to social entrepreneurship, as …

Institutional work to navigate ethical dilemmas: Evidence from a social enterprise

PK Hota, B Bhatt, I Qureshi - Journal of Business Venturing, 2023 - Elsevier
Social entrepreneurs encounter ethical dilemmas while addressing their social and
commercial missions. The literature has implicitly acknowledged the ethical dilemmas social …

Social entrepreneurship in China: Driving institutional change

T Warnecke - Journal of Economic Issues, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the concern with exclusionary and unethical
business practices has led to the growing popularity of social entrepreneurship, which …

Organizing for society: A typology of social entrepreneuring models

J Mair, J Battilana, J Cardenas - Journal of business ethics, 2012 - Springer
In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a global sample of 200 social
entrepreneurial organizations to develop a typology of social entrepreneuring models. This …

Social entrepreneurship: How intentions to create a social enterprise get formed

J Mair, E Noboa - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Social entrepreneurship has raised increasing interest among scholars, yet we still know
relatively little about the particular dynamics and processes involved. This paper aims at …

A positive theory of social entrepreneurship

FM Santos - Journal of business ethics, 2012 - Springer
I propose a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. By
highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value capture and explaining …

The transformation from traditional nonprofit organizations to social enterprises: An institutional entrepreneurship perspective

WW Ko, G Liu - Journal of business ethics, 2021 - Springer
The development of commercial revenue streams allows traditional nonprofit organizations
to increase financial certainty in response to the reduction of traditional funding sources and …

Social entrepreneurship in a transitional economy: A critical assessment of rural Chinese entrepreneurial firms

PS Poon, L Zhou, TS Chan - Journal of Management Development, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper aims to examine the institutional and social determinants, and
consequences of social entrepreneurship with respect to China's rural enterprises. It also …

Social entrepreneurship in theory and practice—An introduction

NM Pless - Journal of Business Ethics, 2012 - Springer
The field of social entrepreneurship has grown exponentially in recent years and has
become a social, economic and cultural phenomenon. In light of the current economic crisis …

A model of social entrepreneurial discovery

PJ Murphy, SM Coombes - Journal of business ethics, 2009 - Springer
Social entrepreneurship activity continues to surge tremendously in market and economic
systems around the world. Yet, social entrepreneurship theory and understanding lag far …