Activist Entrepreneurship: Attacking Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories in (Civil) Society

Gawell, Malin

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“…9 Compare for example, the discussions in the special number of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development volume 16:3 2004, for example by Steyaert and Katz, and by Rehn and Taalas. 10 As Gawell (2007) discusses, this border is being challenged from several directions, both by the companies' social responsibility organisations (the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility) and by the non-profit-making 'fundraising ventures'. 11 That the formal association form can be confusing has also been discussed by Lindkvist (2008) in connection with his studies of personal cooperatives.…”

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“…In the cases which are presented here, the commitment is about access for local and regional citizens, to the kinds of health promoting services that are offered. The motivation is not far from needs driven motivation in the sense used by Gawell (2007) in her thesis. Societal entrepreneurs see it as necessary that the people who live in the area have access to their services.…”

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Societal entrepreneurs in the health sector: crossing the frontiers

Tillmar

2009

Social Enterprise Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore societal entrepreneurship in the turbulent health-care sector in a changing welfare state, Sweden. Empirically oriented questions about the businesses explored in this paper are: how do the entrepreneurs see combining "health-driven" and profit-driven enterprises? What mindset and strategies guide their enterprises? What organizatorial solutions are used? Design/methodology/approach -The paper is based on two case-entrepreneurs, selected due to the author's perception of them as successful both as businesses and as societal change agents. The entrepreneurs have been interviewed by means of unstructured dialogues. Findings -Both entrepreneurs prove to be frontier crossing combiners in several dimensions; they unite ideological commitment with economically sound businesses, they bring together their medical professions and complementary methods of treatment, they combine bridge building with challenging and they reconcile part-time entrepreneurship with employment. Research limitations/implications -With regard to the long-term preconditions for societal entrepreneurship, it is concluded that these two entrepreneurial processes have traits of both opportunity-and self-exploitation. The long-term social sustainability of enterprises of this kind is an issue for further research. Originality/value -The paper goes beyond non-profit research by exploring societal entrepreneurship in the for-profit sector, with focus on entrepreneurship which crosses sectoral borders.

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Societal entrepreneurs in the health sector: crossing the frontiers

Tillmar

2009

Social Enterprise Journal

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“…This chapter is based on empirical research conducted in a Swedish context in the past ten years with a focus on 'activist entrepreneurship' (Gawell 2006), 'social engagement and entrepreneurial action' (Gawell 2008), 'societal entrepreneurship' (Gawell et al 2009), 'entrepreneurship and enterprises in employment integration' (Gawell 2011), and 'policy development in the field of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises'. These studies contain analysis of basic information of more than 150 ventures and policy processes.…”

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Soci(et)al Entrepreneurship and Different Forms of Social Enterprise

Gawell

2013

International Studies in Entrepreneurship

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For many years there has been discussion about the definitions and issues at stake in entrepreneurship research. Adding a social or societal element does little to clarify matters, even in the emerging field of social or societal entrepreneurship and social enterprises. In this chapter, the use of these conceptualizations in theory as well as practice, is elaborated on primarily in a Swedish setting; however, as we will see, similar expressions are just as relevant in other countries. The aim here is to chart this emerging field with an eye to the critical discussions of tensions and priorities.

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“…Intertwined with the process of local translation of the global NPM ideas is the process of changing roles of the third sector and the importance of social economy. Third sector activism is also portrayed nowadays in terms of entrepreneurship (Gawell, 2006), societal entrepreneurship or social entrepreneurship (Nicholls, 2006;Fayolle and Matlay, 2010;Gawell, 2014). The trend can be interpreted as an acknowledgment of the increased visibility of the third sector, but also as a neoliberal attempt to impose private sector logic not only on the public sector but also on the third sector.…”

Section: The Organized Society and Its Sectors -Why The Swedish Publimentioning

confidence: 99%