13 research outputs found
Shaping social enterprise: understanding institutional context and influence
'Shaping Social Enterprise' helps researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and international development actors better understand various institutional paths of social enterprise development and where institutional strengths and weaknesses may be located
Philippe Eynaud, Jean-Louis Laville, Luciane Lucas dos Santos, Swati Banerjee, Flor Avelino and Lars Hulgård: Theory of Social Enterprise and Pluralism. Social Movements, Solidarity Economy, and the Global South
A Quantitative Study on Growth of Social Enterprise in Korea - Focused on Financial Performance during 2007~2010 -
A legally-informed definition of volunteering in nonprofits and social enterprises:Unpaid work meets profit motives
Understanding the phenomenon of Chilean social enterprises under the lens of Kerlin’s approach
Understanding social enterprise model development through discursive interpretations of social enterprise policymaking in Australia (2007-2013)
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India
This study conducts a comparative analysis of social enterprise intermediaries in China and India to better understand how they legitimize social enterprises in new settings. To address theoretical weakness in this sphere, it combines several institutional theories to capture disruptions created by institutional innovation and also legitimizing processes. Drawing on data collected from surveys, interviews, and websites in each country, it finds that intermediaries mitigate negative and leverage positive influences of external institutions though their strategies vary due to country differences in institutional pressures. This information is key to building intermediaries’ capacity to institutionalize social enterprises as new institutional actors