Social entrepreneurs as institutional entrepreneurs: evidence from a comparative case study

Chatzichristos, Georgios; Nagopoulos, Nikolaos

doi:10.1108/sej-12-2020-0137

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“…Qualitative methods, in particular the set of ethnographic investigation and observation techniques, contribute in a particularly relevant way to investigations into social entrepreneurship [52,53], benefiting from the direct presence of the researchers in the field that allows exploration of the specific social dynamics underlying the heterodox and successful initiatives that the study intends to analyze.…”

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Sense of Place, Biocultural Heritage, and Sustainable Knowledge and Practices in Three Italian Rural Regeneration Processes

2022

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This paper addresses sustainable development processes based on biocultural heritage, sense of place, and socio-cultural innovation and inclusiveness in the rural context, particularly focusing different scales of endogenous/neo-endogenous rural regeneration processes. Ethnographic and grounded case studies allow a critical analysis of different forms of rural development from a multidisciplinary perspective based on old and new rurality, rural and local communities’ participation, resilience and regeneration processes, sense of place, belongingness, and “restanza”. The three cases are situated in three areas of Italy: the ecomuseum of pastoralism in Pontebernardo in the northern region of Piedmont as a driver of local shared development pathways; the municipality of Castel del Giudice, in the Central-Southern region of Molise, enabling different and integrated local regeneration actions; and the Association “Casa delle AgriCulture”/Green Night Festival in Castiglione d’Otranto in the Southern region of Puglia as a performative opportunity to define innovative and transversal as well as community-oriented activities. In these contexts, different local regeneration programs were applied in order to provide a critical evaluation of the knowledge and practices of sustainability in terms of their entanglements with biocultural heritage and socio-cultural innovation. The present analysis insists on the impact of biocultural heritage in regeneration processes in rural regions and endogenous/neo-endogenous factors in rural sustainable development.

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Sense of Place, Biocultural Heritage, and Sustainable Knowledge and Practices in Three Italian Rural Regeneration Processes

2022

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“…814), Greek social enterprises have doubled in five years (Sotiropoulou et al , 2019). This also explains why Greek social entrepreneurship has only recently attracted the research attention of scholars (Sotiropoulou et al , 2019; Graikioti et al , 2020; Salavou and Cohen, 2020; Trigkas et al , 2020; Chatzichristos and Nagopoulos, 2021).…”

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Organizational growth strategies for Greek social enterprises’ social impact during the COVID-19 pandemic

Loukopoulos

Papadimitriou

2022

SEJ

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Purpose The repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the organizational scaling strategies of the social impact are still under-researched and remain one of the most significant issues in the social entrepreneurship field, with scarce empirical research so far. This paper aims to present the organizational growth strategies that Greek social enterprises have used to scale their social impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Building on development studies, organization theory and social movement research, this study addresses how Greek social enterprises scale their social impact following organizational growth strategies during the pandemic, based on a sample of ten social enterprises and following a qualitative method approach through a multiple case study. Findings Results highlight that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizational scaling of social enterprises has supported social impact through expanding services, building new interorganizational collaborations and serving additional beneficiaries. Furthermore, new and viable growth strategies include advocacy-oriented scaling for resources and local and remote markets through prompt digitalization. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first systematic attempt to explore the organizational scaling strategies undertaken by Greek social enterprises in the context of the difficulties placed by the COVID-19 crisis. What emerged from this study was a new prominent organizational scaling strategy of the social enterprises’ social impact called strategic organizational change.

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“…However, alternate formulations that avoid such inherently circular expressions seemed worth considering. For instance, Chatzichristos and Nagopoulos (2021, p. 567) depicted social entrepreneurship as ʻa type of agency that initiates divergent changes with the aim of restructuring organizational fields’. This perspective emphasizes disruptive change and a reshaping of the way in which industries or sectors operate.…”

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Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science

Glasbeek,

Wickert,

Schad

2024

Int J Management Reviews

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Scholars have long debated the definition of social entrepreneurship, but disagreement persists. Despite sustained efforts to craft a universal definition, social entrepreneurship has been characterized as an ʻessentially contested concept’. However, little is known about the root causes of this ongoing contestation. Therefore, we delve into the literature's social entrepreneurship definitions to examine this complex issue. Our systematic literature review leverages insights from the philosophy of science and formal logic—specifically, a theory of definition—to present four rules for definitional evaluation in the social sciences. Accordingly, definitions should convey the essence of a concept (Rule 1: essence), differentiate between their defining and defined terms (Rule 2: expression), be phrased positively (Rule 3: explication), and avoid figurative and obscure language (Rule 4: eloquence). Using these rules to analyse 156 original social entrepreneurship definitions reveals varying interpretations of the concept's essence and sheds light on epistemological issues, such as tautological definitions. Integrating these findings into a practical ʻrulebook’ for definitional evaluation significantly contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature and other highly contested fields by helping to understand different sources of contestation. Guided by our rulebook, we suggest future research avenues and highlight diverse theorizing styles, the engagement of opposing and paradoxical definitional views and the role of academic language in shaping the social entrepreneurship field.

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Social entrepreneurs as institutional entrepreneurs: evidence from a comparative case study

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Sense of Place, Biocultural Heritage, and Sustainable Knowledge and Practices in Three Italian Rural Regeneration Processes

Sense of Place, Biocultural Heritage, and Sustainable Knowledge and Practices in Three Italian Rural Regeneration Processes

Organizational growth strategies for Greek social enterprises’ social impact during the COVID-19 pandemic

Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science

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