Bridging Ties Across Contexts to Scale Social Value: The Case of a Vietnamese Social Enterprise

Sarah Easter and Mary Conway Dato-On

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2015, vol. 6, issue 3, 320-351

Abstract: Social enterprises that seek to operate across multiple contexts to achieve desired outcomes require substantial reliance upon social capital. This study examines social capital within a social enterprise by addressing how complex institutional and cultural contexts contribute to unique development and leverage of social capital in such organizations. Based upon a one-year ethnographic study involving a Vietnamese social enterprise, the research provides a nuanced perspective of the focal social enterprise and the social capital tensions it encountered in operating across multiple contexts to meet social goals. It also offers a theoretical model detailing the key organizational strategies and associated internal dynamics utilized by social enterprises that will affect their potential to effectively navigate social ties across national and cultural borders.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2015.1049284

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