A Social Mission is Not Enough: Reflecting the Normative Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship

Bruder, Ignas

doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04602-5

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“…The eight tensions of social enterprise Tension 1: dual-mission The view of SEs as fundamentally and inherently paradoxical recurs regularly within the literature. Bull (2008) argues that the very terms "social" and "enterprise" are not easy to reconcile in practice, and the literature abounds with similar recognition of the inherent tensions within SEs (Dees and Anderson, 2006;Hai and Daft, 2016;Smith et al, 2012;Tracey and Phillips, 2007;Siebold et al, 2016;Bruder, 2021). The core of this perceived paradox, from which other tensions flow, is the "dual-mission" nature of SEs and the risk of mission drift that this creates.…”

Section: Paradox Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective

White

Samuel

Peattie

et al. 2022

IJEBR

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PurposeThe paper aims to critically review the increasingly taken-for-granted view of social enterprise (SE) as inherently paradoxical and tackles the research question as follows: are the tensions experienced by SE and social entrepreneurs (SEnt) actually paradoxical and if not, what are the implications for theory and practice?Design/methodology/approachA paradox theory (PT) approach has been utilized to explore the implications, validity and helpfulness of the paradox perspective in understanding and managing the tensions that are inherent in SE.FindingsConceptualizing the primary tension of doing social good through commercial activity as a paradox is argued to be a limiting misnomer that conspires to reify and perpetuate the tensions that SE and SEnt have to manage. Drawing upon PT, the findings of the paper reconceptualize these tensions as myths, dilemmas and dialectics, which are subsequently used to develop a more complete ontological framework of the challenges that arise in SE and for SEnt.Practical implicationsReconceptualizing the “inherent paradoxes” of SE as either dilemmas or dialectics affords a means of pursuing their successful resolution. Consequently, this view alleviates much of the pressure that SE managers and SEnt may feel in needing to pursue commercial goals alongside social goals.Originality/valueThe work presents new theoretical insights to challenge the dominant view of SE as inherently paradoxical.

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Section: Paradox Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective

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Samuel

Peattie

et al. 2022

IJEBR

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“…AI robots' use influences the extent to which the locus of morality, defined as the autonomy to choose an ethical course of action (Bruder, 2020), is mostly concentrated in human agents (weak AI agency) versus human agency being less straightforward with concentration towards AI robots (strong AI agency). Strong AI agency does not imply the lack of human agency but instead the hidden nature of human agency.…”

Section: Locus Of Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dawn of the AI Robots: Towards a New Framework of AI Robot Accountability

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Business, management, and business ethics literature pay little attention to the topic of AI robots. The broad spectrum of potential ethical issues pertains to using driverless cars, AI robots in care homes, and in the military, such as Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. However, there is a scarcity of in-depth theoretical, methodological, or empirical studies that address these ethical issues, for instance, the impact of morality and where accountability resides in AI robots’ use. To address this dearth, this study offers a conceptual framework that interpretively develops the ethical implications of AI robot applications, drawing on descriptive and normative ethical theory. The new framework elaborates on how the locus of morality (human to AI agency) and moral intensity combine within context-specific AI robot applications, and how this might influence accountability thinking. Our theorization indicates that in situations of escalating AI agency and situational moral intensity, accountability is widely dispersed between actors and institutions. ‘Accountability clusters’ are outlined to illustrate interrelationships between the locus of morality, moral intensity, and accountability and how these invoke different categorical responses: (i) illegal, (ii) immoral, (iii) permissible, and (iv) supererogatory pertaining to using AI robots. These enable discussion of the ethical implications of using AI robots, and associated accountability challenges for a constellation of actors—from designer, individual/organizational users to the normative and regulative approaches of industrial/governmental bodies and intergovernmental regimes.

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“…In recent times, scholars have emphasized the need for critical evaluation of ethics in SE and consequently, many works have explored different ethical aspects of SE (Bruder, 2020;Chell et al, 2016). However, considering the nascent stage of ethics in SE many issues remain unexplored.…”

Section: Ethics Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tracing the Intellectual Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Advances, Current Trends, and Future Directions

Hota

2021

J Bus Ethics

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In this study, we employed a combination of bibliometric analysis and a structured review approach to examine the social entrepreneurship (SE) research. Our bibliometric analysis involved 2517 articles containing 155,846 references and we analyzed the data in three time periods: 1990-2009, 2010-2014, and 2015-2020 to detect longitudinal trends. This analysis helped us to identify the intellectual foundation of each period and the evolution of the intellectual structure of SE research. We specifically identified 13, 9, and 11 clusters that constituted the philosophical foundations of SE research for the periods 1990-2009, 2010-2014, and 2015-2020 respectively. A longitudinal comparison of three periods helped us to trace the evolution of the intellectual structure of SE research. Further, the structured review, involving 106 recent influential articles, enabled us to identify 10 recent dominant themes of SE research. Building on our bibliometric and structured review approach, we developed an organizing framework for guiding future SE research across six dimensions: ethics, individual, community, collaborative, organizational, and contextual.

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A Social Mission is Not Enough: Reflecting the Normative Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship

Cited by 41 publications

References 76 publications

Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective

Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective

The Dawn of the AI Robots: Towards a New Framework of AI Robot Accountability

Tracing the Intellectual Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Advances, Current Trends, and Future Directions

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