Social Venture Business Models for Transforming Non-Profit Organizations: Typology-Driven Theorizing

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KeywordsBusiness model, social entrepreneurship, social venture, non-profit organization, typology, configuration ii Social Venture Business Models for Transforming Non-Profit Organizations: Typology-Driven Theorizing AbstractSocial entrepreneurship and social ventures are important for the survival of many non-profit organizations (NPOs). Transforming into social ventures and embracing their business models are seen by many NPOs, particularly those operating in developing countries, as potential solutions to achieve financial sustainability in light of a recent decline in public and aid funding support to these organizations. Unfortunately, the knowledge of the appropriate social venture business models for these transforming NPOs is limited. This is a thesis by published papers. Using a theory elaboration/advancement framework to achieve the aims and to link the papers, this thesis contains three sequential papers that fulfil important roles in the typology-driven theorizing process.The first paper, a conceptual paper, entitled "A Typology of Social Venture Business Model Configurations" aims to develop a typology of social venture business models for transforming non-profit organizations. The paper, using resource dependency

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“…In Indonesia, there exists a great diversity of models for SE (see Margiono, 2018 for different models and an analysis of 205 cases of 'social ventures' that have transformed from originally being non-profit organisations; Yulius et al (2015) propose three types of SE; and Social Enterprise UK, 2012). As an example of a typology of models, Pratono et al (2016, pp.…”

“…These four models vary in approach to achieving their social mission, finance and governance. Regarding non-profits/NGOs (nongovernmental organisations), there are programs that assist their transition to SE such as the British Council's NGO Transformation to Social Enterprise program (Margiono, 2018). NGO revenue streams include 'membership fees, charging fees for services (e.g.…”