Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs

Stervinou, Sandrine; Bayle-Cordier, Julie; Cantín, Lorea Narvaiza; Aragón, Cristina; Landart, Cristina Iturrioz

doi:10.1080/08985626.2021.1914740

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“…It also shapes their perceptions of the external world and informs their activities. These findings align with Welter’s (2011, p. 165) statement suggesting that “context is important for understanding when, how, and why entrepreneurship happens and who becomes involved” as well as Stervinou and colleagues’ (2021) remarks that “in entrepreneurship processes in general and social entrepreneurship processes in particular, meanings, interpretations, expectations around contexts may impact how social entrepreneurship is enacted and sustained over time.”…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Importantly, we note that the context should not be perceived as a barrier to action. In line with structuration theory, we show that the structure simultaneously enables and constrains social entrepreneurship, with social entrepreneurs being present in a variety of contexts (Stephan et al, 2015;Stervinou et al, 2021), including developing and developed counties and different political systems with different business support (Bosma et al, 2016).…”

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“…As “commercial entrepreneurship can be socially responsible and ethical in practice” (Acs et al, 2013, p. 787), entrepreneurs possess the ability to shape ethical attitudes (Fassin et al, 2011) and create social value in addition to economic value. In some cases, the desire for positive social outcomes is becoming the focus of entrepreneurial activity with entrepreneurship being viewed as a societal and collective phenomenon that is constructed during the social interactions between individuals and their environment (Stervinou et al, 2021). Hence, entrepreneurship evolves and diversifies (Tykkyläinen & Ritala, 2021), with strands of entrepreneurship becoming more social and some entrepreneurs expanding their interests beyond profit generation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Using Giddens’s structuration theory and empirical data from a study with social enterprise stakeholders, the article explores how social entrepreneurs and the structure co-create one another. We show that the development of the contemporary significance of social entrepreneurialism lies in a combination of complex context-specific structural forces and the activities of agents who initiate, demand, and impose change. Social entrepreneurs intentionally tackle social challenges, but their actions bring unintentional results, such as the transfer of state responsibilities onto communities. Direct outputs of their activities introduce indirect outcomes, bringing wider changes in culture and policy. The evolving nature of entrepreneurship and a number of factors that interplay in time and space, and enable and constrain social entrepreneurs, confirm the applicability of Giddens’s theory in the field of social entrepreneurship. The originality of this article derives from revealing mechanisms that enable social entrepreneurs to emerge and reasons for structural change. We also build a “co-creation model of structure and agency” that can be used to “engineer” the process of social entrepreneurship.

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“…Interestingly, our findings also indicate that economic agents can increase the legitimacy of their property rights without a change in the legal rules (Frye, 2017). Finally, our findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on collective entrepreneurship that suggests collectivist organizing can aid individual entrepreneurs to attenuate adverse market forces (Cook et al, 2008;Stervinou et al, 2021).…”

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Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos

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2022

J Management Studies

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For economic agents seeking to organize collectively, opportunism is a central concern -any invasion by opportunistic agents can threaten an organization's viability. To understand how economic agents address this concern, we examine Magnum Photos, an enduring elite cooperative of freelance photographers that screened prospective members based on shared values. We identify two mechanisms through which these shared values engendered non-calculative trust that renders collective organizing economically viable. We unpack how this values-based trust attenuates hazards of opportunism and promotes risk bearing and innovation when property rights are appropriately assigned to individual members and the size of the collective organization remains relatively small. We maintain that Magnum can be regarded as a form of collective entrepreneurship adopted by risk bearing agents bound together by shared values. We provide unique insight into how economic agents in industries beset by measurement problems can organize collectively around shared values to mitigate opportunism and innovate.

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“…Hybrid models enable collective entrepreneurial activities to simultaneously address societal and economic challenges while positioning themselves in the global economy [104]. Collaborative entrepreneurship summarizes the possibility for entrepreneurs to define democratic and collaborative activities among similar and varied players and generate beneficial societal change [105]. In conclusion, entrepreneurs can guide collaborative effort towards the economic sustainability of the action and support changing of current institutional arrangements to new ones [98,102].…”

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Institutional Collective Actions for Culture and Heritage-Led Urban Regeneration: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

2023

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Institutional collective actions (ICAs) provide a fascinating framework for comprehending collaborative urban initiatives. We defined ICAs as groups of people and organizations working together to promote a shared goal they could not pursue on their own. This study provides an empirical justification of why particular characteristics support the success of ICAs and why others fail. We restrict our analysis to culture-and-heritage-led urban regeneration initiatives and analyze the combinations of conditions under which these initiatives achieve their objectives. Adopting an integrated strategy, we studied prerequisites and critical elements that affect the success of collaborative actions, such as entrepreneurship, the enabling role of institutional capacity, multi-stakeholder involvement, and co-governance. Therefore, we compared sixteen culture-and-heritage-led urban regeneration initiatives in Europe as examples of ICAs in the urban context. We utilized fsQCA, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, as a method that enabled us to define the configurations (combinations of factors) that determine the performances of urban regeneration actions. The results demonstrate that a variety of elements are necessary for developing collaborative initiatives and that three different recipes can be developed. In addition, this study contributes to the body of knowledge on institutional collective actions in two ways: (1) by providing empirical evidence of why specific conditions need to be considered when developing collective actions and (2) by showing how specific conditions interact and explain the performance of ICAs.

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Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs

Cited by 7 publications

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Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory

Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory

Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos

Institutional Collective Actions for Culture and Heritage-Led Urban Regeneration: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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