 Social performance measurement adoption in nascent social enterprises: Refining the institutional modelShoko Kato Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021, vol. 15, issue C Abstract: Based on institutional theory, Lall (2017) established a social performance measurement (SPM) adoption model for nascent social enterprises and found that internal factors (measuring to improve) are influential, while external factors (measuring to prove) have limited or no effects on the probability of adopting SPM. This finding contradicts the predictions of institutional theory; external factors, such as legitimacy and isomorphism, should exert strong influences on nascent social enterprises’ behavior. Using the same dataset as that used in Lall’s (2017) study, we find the missing influence of external factors, i.e., equity and grant funding-related behavior. This study contributes to entrepreneurship research by 1) refining the institutional SPM adoption model, 2) demonstrating the need for a theoretical SPM adoption model, and 3) highlighting the importance of replication studies. Keywords: Social enterprise; Social entrepreneurship; Social performance measurement; Institutional theory; Replication study (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jobuve:v:15:y:2021:i:c:s2352673421000226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00244 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Venturing Insights is currently edited by Dimo Dimov More articles in Journal of Business Venturing Insights from Elsevier |
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