Long-term persistence in social enterprise: a collective perspective

Bérangère Deschamps (), Laetitia Gabay Mariani and Romain Slitine
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Bérangère Deschamps: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Laetitia Gabay Mariani: Kedge BS - Kedge Business School
Romain Slitine: IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the drivers of collective persistence of social ventures. Specifically, we investigate how founders' individual commitment profiles shape the collective agentic effort to pursue a social business project. Through an eight years qualitative longitudinal study led on two nascent social ventures, we identify different patterns related to the profiles of commitment driving collective persistence, to the collective dynamics affecting individual commitments, and to the conditions of collective persistence. We argue that the individual/project nexus – associating persistence to individual commitment, is insufficient to account for the complexity of social entrepreneurship. Rather, we propose that collective persistence is driven by specific combinations of individual commitments, which evolve through time. We also explain the conditions for persistent commitment in social entrepreneurship.

Date: 2024-06-25
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Published in EURAM - European Academy of Management, Jun 2024, Bath (UK), United Kingdom

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