Mission Statement Components and Social Enterprise Sustainability: Findings from a Mixed-Method Approach

Haixia Duan () and Yaya Yang ()
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Haixia Duan: School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Yaya Yang: International Business College, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 528225, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Mission statement components are crucial for the sustainability of social enterprises. Based on content analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we investigate the link between mission statement components and sustainability in a sample of 148 Chinese social enterprises. Our findings indicate that social enterprises’ mission statements are both socially and commercially focused. An individual mission statement component does not constitute a necessary condition for the high sustainability of social enterprises, but products or services and enterprise philosophy play a universal role in this regard. There are four configurations of mission statement components that lead to high social enterprise sustainability. This study helps to reveal the complexity of the impact of mission statement components on social enterprise sustainability.

Keywords: mission statement; social enterprise sustainability; content analysis; qualitative comparative analysis; configurations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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