The Clash of Missions: Juxtaposing Competing Pressures in South Africa's Social Enterprises

Emmanuel T. Kodzi

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2015, vol. 6, issue 3, 278-298

Abstract: Social enterprises seek resource combinations to provide some assurance of sustainability as they create social value in a defined domain of action. However, this resource-seeking mandate also constitutes a distraction that complicates the operations of any social enterprise. How do social enterprises manage the implicit duality of maintaining a commercial mission in order to achieve their social mission? Using the context of South Africa, this study examines the process trade-offs that enhance or limit social impact under the referenced duality. The study clarifies the nature of these trade-offs, as a basis for appropriating efficiency-enhancing process design in enterprises that create, but do not capture value. The author proposes a unique intersection between the logic of control and the logic of empowerment in the field of social entrepreneurship, and suggests that value chain processes be controlled to the extent that the enterprise acts as a custodian of community empowerment for its target beneficiaries.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.981844

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