Sustainable Social Enterprise Model: Relationships and Consequences

Nuttasorn Ketprapakorn and Sooksan Kantabutra
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Nuttasorn Ketprapakorn: School of Business, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Sooksan Kantabutra: Center for Research on Sustainable Leadership, College of Management, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 14, 1-39

Abstract: The present study develops a sustainable social enterprise model and examines relationships between corporate sustainability practices and sustainability performance outputs in a social healthcare enterprise in Thailand. Findings reveal four predictors of corporate sustainability, including Leadership, Stakeholder Focus, Resilience Development, and Sharing practices. All of them have direct and/or indirect positive effects on corporate sustainability performance outputs as measured by brand equity, socioeconomic performance and environmental performance. The study also proposes a coherent theory of Sufficiency Economy in business, build upon key theories from relevant fields. Lastly, the present study provides future research directions and managerial implications based upon the model.

Keywords: sustainable enterprise; corporate sustainability; social enterprise; social healthcare enterprise; sufficiency economy; brand management; socioeconomic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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