From Caring Entrepreneur to Caring Enterprise: Addressing the Ethical Challenges of Scaling up Social Enterprises

Kevin André () and Anne-Claire Pache
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Kevin André: ESSEC Business School
Anne-Claire Pache: ESSEC Business School

Journal of Business Ethics, 2016, vol. 133, issue 4, No 4, 659-675

Abstract: Abstract This paper advances the conception of social entrepreneurs as caring entrepreneurs. We argue that the care ethics of social entrepreneurs, implying the pursuit of caring goals through caring processes, can be challenged when they engage in the process of scaling up their ventures. We propose that social entrepreneurs can sustain their care ethics as the essential dimension of their venture only if they are able to build a caring enterprise. Organizational care designates the set of organizing principles that facilitate the embedding of care ethics at an organizational level, beyond the imprinting induced by social entrepreneurs’ personal ethics.

Keywords: Ethics of care; Social entrepreneurship; Scaling up; Organizational care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2445-8

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