Institutional Theory as a Framework for Practitioners of Social Entrepreneurship

Anirudh Agrawal () and Kai Hockerts ()
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Anirudh Agrawal: Center for CSR, Copenhagen Business School
Kai Hockerts: Center for CSR, Copenhagen Business School

A chapter in Social Innovation, 2013, pp 119-129 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter proposes institutional theory as a framework for reflecting on social entrepreneurship. We advocate institutional theory as a tool for practitioners to reflect upon the legitimacy, survivability and scalability of social enterprises because institutional theory frameworks can reduce risks associated with emerging fields such as social entrepreneurship. In order to illustrate our claim, we present four cases of social entrepreneurship and reflect on them through different institutional theory frameworks. At the end of the chapter, we propose a future agenda for practitioners interested in social entrepreneurship from an institutional theory perspective.

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Social Impact; Social Enterprise; Institutional Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_11

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