The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across local communities

Christian Seelos (), Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin
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Christian Seelos: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Johanna Mair: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Julie Battilana: Harvard Business School
M. Tina Dacin: Queen's School of Business

No D/858, IESE Research Papers from IESE Business School

Abstract: Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim of achieving social goals. SEOs have been seen as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variations in local institutional mechanisms shape the local "face of poverty" in different communities and how this relates to variations in the emergence and strategic orientations of SEOs. We develop a model of the productive opportunity space for SEOs as a basis of, and an inspiration for, further scholarly inquiry.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; Social mechanisms; poverty; opportunity; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010-05-03
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