Exploring the terrain of social entrepreneurship: new directions, paths less travelled

Bruin, Anne de; Teasdale, Simon

doi:10.4337/9781788972321.00005

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“…Explicit attention to gender together with other intersecting social identities such as race/ ethnicity and migrant attributes, will reveal a more in-depth picture of individual social entrepreneurial trajectories and the characteristics of ecosystems that support diverse social entrepreneurs. Thus future research could effectively respond to the call for intersectional study of social entrepreneurship (de Bruin and Teasdale, 2019). Research across multiple country contexts, across different geographies with different institutional configurations and cultural expectations and with attention to the agency of social entrepreneurs of different backgrounds and identities, will ultimately reveal patterns in what is required to nurture social entrepreneurship from intention to realisation, and to grow sustainable and impactful social ventures.…”

Section: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guest editorial: Gender and social entrepreneurship: building cumulative knowledge

de Bruin,

Eversole,

Woods

2024

IJGE

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Section: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guest editorial: Gender and social entrepreneurship: building cumulative knowledge

de Bruin,

Eversole,

Woods

2024

IJGE

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“…Secondly, examining social entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia answers calls for furthering research in contexts other than Europe and North America (De Bruin & Teasdale, 2019;Kolk & Rivera-Santos, 2018;Tan Luc et al, 2022;Terjesen et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, examining discourse across all three types of legitimacy following Suchman's (1995) typology adopts a theoretically grounded approach and engages critically with research seeing social entrepreneurship as morally legitimated (Dart, 2004;Venot, 2016). Secondly, we contribute to counterbalancing the continued underrepresentation of the Global South in entrepreneurship research (De Bruin & Teasdale, 2019;Kolk & Rivera-Santos, 2018;Tan Luc et al, 2022;Terjesen et al, 2016).…”

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Saving the world through private‐sector efficiency and local empowerment? Discursive legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurship in the Global South

Katzer¹,

Sendlhofer

2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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In efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, social entrepreneurship has gained popularity as a vehicle for positive change in developing countries. The multiplicity of stakeholders, diverging sociocultural contexts and the hybrid mission complicate the process of legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurs as a basis for the acquisition of scarce resources. This study investigates how social entrepreneurs operating in Sub‐Saharan Africa and Asia tackle this challenge of bridging conflicting directions in discursive interaction with their European funders. We conduct a multimodal discourse analysis to uncover discursive strategies for legitimacy construction by combining linguistic data from interviews with visual data from social media accounts. Legitimacy construction, and thus resource acquisition, centers on three aspects which interlink pragmatic, cognitive and moral legitimacy: developing innovative solutions, mobilizing private‐sector efficiency, and contributing to local empowerment. Presenting these aspects as mutually reinforcing overcomes contradictions between social and business logics and provides an expanded space for legitimacy construction of social entrepreneurship. Discursively constructing legitimacy around a ‘glorified version of social entrepreneurship’ mobilizes resources but downplays the risk of being an entrepreneur in the Global South, contributing to increasing corporatization of social purpose organizations.

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“…The complex dynamics and influencers of SE (de Bruin and Teasdale, 2019) urge researchers to develop more nuanced understandings of antecedents of SE (Ko and Kang, 2022). Deployment of context-embedded approaches (Hechavarría and Brieger, 2022) that enable interrogation of individuals’ thinking processes (Tiwari et al.…”

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Antecedents of women’s social entrepreneurship: values development and the perceived desirability and feasibility of social venture creation

de Magdalene

2023

IJGE

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PurposeThis paper aims to identify the values antecedents of women’s social entrepreneurship. It explores where and how these values emerge and how they underpin the perceived desirability and feasibility of social venture creation.Design/methodology/approachValues development across the life-course is interrogated through retrospective sense-making by thirty UK-based women social entrepreneurs.FindingsThe findings express values related to empathy, social justice and action-taking, developed, consolidated and challenged in a variety of experiential domains over time. The cumulative effects of these processes result in the perceived desirability and feasibility of social entrepreneurial venture creation as a means of effecting social change and achieving coherence between personal values and paid work, prompting social entrepreneurial action-taking.Originality/valueThis paper offers novel, contextualised insights into the role that personal values play as antecedents to social entrepreneurship. It contributes to the sparse literature focussed on both women’s experiences of social entrepreneurship generally, and on their personal values specifically.

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Exploring the terrain of social entrepreneurship: new directions, paths less travelled

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Guest editorial: Gender and social entrepreneurship: building cumulative knowledge

Guest editorial: Gender and social entrepreneurship: building cumulative knowledge

Saving the world through private‐sector efficiency and local empowerment? Discursive legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurship in the Global South

Antecedents of women’s social entrepreneurship: values development and the perceived desirability and feasibility of social venture creation

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