Social entrepreneuring - structures and processes: a practice-theory approach
2014 (English)In: Paper presented at the 28th RENT conference: Entrepreneurial endeavours: a profusion of research, policy and practitioner practices, Luxembourg, November 19-21, 2014, EIASM - European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management , 2014Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
There is an increasing gap between the contemporary academic and political concern for social enterprising and available theoretical and empirical research in the field. In this study we want to contribute to a much needed bridge by, first, outlining a conceptual framework for (social) entrepreneuring based on practice-theory. Second, we generate an in-depth inquiry into the everyday operations of two Swedish social businesses, interconnected in an emerging franchise structure, identifying basic structural and processual features of social entrepreneuring. The proposed structures include the dualities individual/collective as the actor, personal/institutional rules of action and self-identity/social identity. The six identified practices concern social bricolaging, amplified immediacy, dynamic involvement, ambiguous legitimacy, self-enforced heterogeneity and urgency for financial viability.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
EIASM - European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management , 2014.
Keywords [en]
Practice theory, Social entrepreneuring, Interactive methodology, Process studies
National Category
Economics and Business
Research subject
Economy, Ledarskap, entreprenörskap och organisation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37966OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-37966DiVA, id: diva2:765740
Conference
RENT XXVIII: Entrepreneurial endeavours: a profusion of research, policy and practitioner practices, Luxembourg, November 19-21, 2014
Projects
Kapitalförsörjning och socialt företagande
Note
The project is financed by Kamprad Family Foundation
2014-11-242014-11-012017-02-17Bibliographically approved