Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects

Paul-Brian McInerney

Chapter 7 in Social Enterprises, 2012, pp 162-184 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The standard definition of a social enterprise is an organization that applies business-like structures and practices to produce social, as opposed to private, returns (Bielefeld, 2006; Dart, 2004b). Social enterprises blend values and practices from different institutional domains to produce new hybrid organizational forms (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Cooney, 2006; Hasenfeld and Gidron, 2005). The evolution of hybrid organizational forms in institutionalized organizational fields presents theoretical challenges to scholars of organizations: Can such hybrids coexist alongside pure (legitimate) forms? Can they overcome legitimacy challenges to become the new taken-for-granted organizational form? How are hybrids innovative? How do they challenge incumbents in institutionalized organizational fields?

Keywords: Board Member; Nonprofit Organization; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137035301_8

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