How impact investing firms are responding to sustain and grow social economy enterprises in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

SM Islam, A Habib - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19-induced disruptions have hardest hit social economy enterprises. While
impact investing is considered a promising vehicle to stimulate and grow social economy …

Advancing a contextualized, community-centric understanding of social entrepreneurial ecosystems

A de Bruin, MJ Roy, S Grant, KV Lewis - Business & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigate what distinguishes social entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs) from
entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) through appreciation of the importance of context—the …

How entrepreneurial ecosystems support the formation of international base-of-the-pyramid ventures: The case of Boston

S Vavilov, S Manning - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
With the growing intersection of entrepreneurship, development and foreign aid,
international base-of-the-pyramid ventures (IBOPVs) become increasingly important …

Humility in social entrepreneurs and its implications for social impact entrepreneurial ecosystems

PT Roundy, TS Lyons - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022 - Elsevier
Why do some social entrepreneurs embrace the assistance of their social impact
entrepreneurial ecosystems (SIEEs) in creating and scaling social ventures while others go …

The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship

M Barton, P Muñoz - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
As social entrepreneurship gains maturity, research has begun to explore the less alluring
aspects of the field, including the heroic stance of social entrepreneurs, the assumed moral …

[HTML][HTML] A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems

J Healy, J Hughes, G Donnelly-Cox, A Shantz - Journal of Business …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes
a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown …

Designing effective policies for innovative start-ups: Lessons learned in Italy

D Matricano - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2024 - Elsevier
Supporting the implementation and growth of innovative start-ups to bring innovation to the
market and foster local development, in terms of economic and social results, is on the …

Strategies for Financial Sustainability in Family-Owned Nonprofit Organizations

LW Cain - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The mission of many family-owned nonprofit organizations (FONPOs) is to provide goods
and services to underserved communities and benefit society. However, less than 50% of …