The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations

A Ebrahim, J Battilana, J Mair - Research in organizational behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission
through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as …

Not-for-profit organizations: A multi-disciplinary review and assessment from a strategic management perspective

IH Gee, PI Nahm, T Yu… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the popularity of not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) as a research topic, existing
comprehensive reviews are rather limited, resulting in a large body of literature that lacks …

Social entrepreneurial ventures: different values so different process of creation, no?

S Dorado - Journal of developmental entrepreneurship, 2006 - World Scientific
Entrepreneurship scholars have identified factors that frame the entrepreneurial process,
such as the gender, race, ethnicity and wealth of entrepreneurs, the technological nature of …

[图书][B] Measuring social change: Performance and accountability in a complex world

A Ebrahim - 2019 - books.google.com
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in
efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an …

Better safe than sorry: Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and cross-sector partnerships

H Herlin - Business & Society, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This article aims to clarify the potential impact of cross-sector partnerships on nonprofit
organizational legitimacy and to provide nonprofit organizations (NPOs) with strategic …

Nonprofit organizations and the evaluation of social impact: A research program to advance theory and practice

LM Benjamin, A Ebrahim… - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article proposes a research program with two goals:(a) to support nonprofit leaders to
productively engage evaluation and (b) to advance a meso-level theory of nonprofit …

Social enterprises and social categories

J Galaskiewicz, SN Barringer - Social enterprises: An organizational …, 2012 - Springer
The discussion of what makes nonprofits and for-profits different from one another is still
relevant. Research has touched upon the role of the non-distribution constraint (Hansmann …

La identidad de la empresa social en España: análisis desde cuatro realidades socioeconómicas

M Solórzano-García, C Guzmán Alfonso… - … -España: Revista de …, 2018 - idus.us.es
La realidad y la literatura científica de la empresa social han ido adquiriendo mayor
relevancia durante los últimos años en España, aunque no ha llegado a equipararse a los …

Whither the turn? The ambiguous nature of nonprofits' commercial revenue

C Child - Social forces, 2010 - academic.oup.com
According to popular accounts, the nonprofit sector has become increasingly
commercialized in recent years. This article reviews the empirical literature on the …

Accountability and giving accounts: Informal reporting practices in a religious corporation

L Hardy, H Ballis - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose–Focusing on Sanitarium, a commercial‐charity operating as a department of a
church, the paper aims to use Mashaw's taxonomy to examine this organisation's informal …