Data Envelopment Analysis and Social Enterprises: Analysing Performance, Strategic Orientation and Mission Drift

Matthias Staessens (), Pieter Kerstens, Johan Bruneel () and Laurens Cherchye
Additional contact information
Matthias Staessens: KU Leuven
Johan Bruneel: IÉSEG School of Management, LEM (UMR-CNRS 9221)

Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, vol. 159, issue 2, No 3, 325-341

Abstract: Abstract This study endorses the use of data envelopment analysis, which uses benefit-of-the-doubt weighting to evaluate the social, economic and overall performance of social enterprises. This methodology is especially useful for creating composite indicators based on multiple outputs expressed in different measurement units, and allows for enterprise-specific weighting of the different objectives. Applying this methodology on a unique longitudinal dataset of Flemish sheltered workshops suggests that social enterprises may face different types of mission drift. Further, our results show that top-performing social enterprises are more economically and socially efficient than low performers. These top performers also have a stronger economic orientation, which sheds new light on the balance between social and economic orientations in social enterprises.

Keywords: Social entrepreneurship; Mission drift; Performance measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10551-018-4046-4 Abstract (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: Data Envelopment Analysis and Social Enterprises: Analysing Performance, Strategic Orientation and Mission Drift (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:159:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s10551-018-4046-4

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... cs/journal/10551/PS2

DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-4046-4

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business Ethics is currently edited by Michelle Greenwood and R. Edward Freeman

More articles in Journal of Business Ethics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().