To Control or Not Control: A Coordination Perspective to Scaling

Funda Sezgi () and Johanna Mair ()
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Funda Sezgi: Norrsken HQ
Johanna Mair: The University of Governance

Chapter Chapter 15 in Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II, 2021, pp 355-376 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we assess the link between scaling, control and organizational achievements. We argue that control is essential to coordinate organizational members towards a common and shared goal and to provide guardrails for scaling. We use the experience of the Aravind Eye Care System, a non-profit organization based in India providing eye care services to poor people to specify the mechanisms employed by Aravind underpinning three popular organizational scaling modes—branching, affiliation and dissemination. Our objective is to show how control and scaling can be combined in order to protect the value base of a social enterprise and at the same time ensure growth.

Keywords: Social enterprise; Scaling; Coordination; Control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55285-5_15

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