Social Entrepreneurship as a New Institutional Field: Institutional Barriers in the Algerian Context

Sofiane Baba (), Taieb Hafsi and Meriem Benslama ()
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Sofiane Baba: Université de Sherbrooke
Meriem Benslama: The Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Chapter 11 in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region, 2022, pp 281-303 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Despite the richness of the growing literature on social entrepreneurship, our understanding of the process of emergence and legitimation of social entrepreneurship remains limited. As is now usual in organization and management theories, emerging countries, especially African ones, are often excluded from reflections and analyses. In this vein, this chapter focuses on the emergence of social entrepreneurship as a new institutional field, focusing more particularly on the challenges it faces in a country such as Algeria, with turbulent and complex institutional dynamics. Building on the experience of the Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship in Algeria between 2013 and 2020, we posit that three interrelated institutional barriers have hindered the emergence of social entrepreneurship as a new field in Algeria: normative (social entrepreneurship is not a legitimate endeavor), regulative (social entrepreneurship at the center of institutional voids) and cultural-cognitive (social entrepreneurship as foreign to established mental schemes). Our chapter offers practical and theoretical implications for research on social entrepreneurship and nascent fields.

Keywords: Social entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Institutional field; Institutional theory; Algeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88447-5_11

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