How Social Enterprises Nurture Empowerment: A Grounded Theoretical Model of Social Change

Braulio Pareja-Cano, Carmen Valor and Arturo Benito

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 29-49

Abstract: Our understanding of how social enterprises enable social change is still limited. Empowerment could be a valid mediating construct to explain the processes occurring between entrepreneurial practices and achievement of social goals. Based on an ethnography case study in a South African social enterprise, this study reveals the entrepreneurial practices that contribute to women’s empowerment and the power-accruing processes that provide female workers access and control over resources and a sense of individual and collective achievement that facilitates the rupture of patriarchal gender roles. This empowerment-based model contributes to explain social change processes inherent in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2020.1821753

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