Paradoxes and strategies in social enterprises’ dual logics enactment: A csQCA between Italy and the United Kingdom

Autor: Chiara Civera, Damiano Cortese, Alex Murdock, Fabrizio Mosca
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Business Research. 115:334-347
ISSN: 0148-2963
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.004
Popis: This study builds upon the literature around tensions, conflicts, and mission drift in social enterprises (SEs) to provide a clearer understanding of how SEs position themselves and which strategies can more effectively prevent a shift toward pure social or pure commercial outcomes. We conducted an in-depth investigation of 10 SEs in Italy and the UK contextualized in the food and beer industries. We produced a theoretical framework shedding light on the possible strategies to deal with sources of conflict and applied a csQCA to identify the most effective combination of strategies in preventing mission drift: mixed ownership and financial resource mobilization. We discuss that differences between the countries emerged due to some of the paradoxes of SEs in these industries. This is seemingly the first study adopting a csQCA in such a context, and it proved to be suitable for studying social entrepreneurship in homogenizing variables, hardly comparable otherwise.
Databáze: OpenAIRE