| Abstrakt: |
Social entrepreneurship transforms communities and brings significant changes to poor and marginalised groups. However, the social process of leveraging local and global resources and scaling local initiatives to global projects needs to be better understood. This paper describes how social entrepreneurship emerges, develops and scales by using a longitudinal analysis. The study relies on qualitative data and allows comprehension of how social value is created and how social entrepreneurs mobilise an ecosystem with a diversity of actors. The findings highlight the ecosystemic vision combining top-down and bottom-up structures, the importance of social embeddedness, the social roles enacted to fulfil certain activities and the need for co-creation with end-users. The discussion provides four theoretical and managerial propositions that identify how social entrepreneurial ecosystems can be scalable and sustainable. Finally the conclusion suggests a new research agenda. |
