Social Enterprises

An Organizational Perspective

By: Benjamin Gidron (Editor), Yeheskel Hasenfeld (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 September 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Social enterprises have been a growing phenomenon around the world in the past decade. The authors of this volume argue that they represent a unique type of organization. By combining social goals with a business orientation, both critical for their mission and survival, they represent a breed of organization with two kinds of logic that in the past were not perceived as belonging under the same organizational roof. The business logic, with its focus on competition and private ownership, did not seem a fitting context in which to deal with social issues or problems. These are traditionally dealt with by a service logic that emphasizes a charitable, empathetic orientation. Putting these two orientations together calls for creative organizational solutions, especially if these organizations are to be stable and sustainable. Social Enterprises presents a first attempt to do that. An organizational perspective of social enterprises allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and begins to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive. This volume provides not only a theoretical and empirical basis to examine these issues, but an international perspective as well.

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Miscellaneous Items Non-Fiction Business & Management Organisational Theory & Behaviour Economics Entrepreneurship / Start-ups Management & Management Techniques Ownership & Organisation of Enterprises Non-Profitmaking Organisations Business Strategy Small Businesses & Self-Employed

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Notes on Contributors	p. xv
List of Abbreviations	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Approaches
The State of Theory and Research on Social Enterprises	p. 19
Social Enterprises and Social Categories	p. 47
Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States	p. 71
Defining Social Enterprise across Different Contexts: A Conceptual Framework Based on Institutional Factors	p. 91
Empirical Studies
Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service versus Market	p. 121
The Phenomenon of Social Businesses: Some Insights from Israel	p. 144
Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects	p. 162
Chasing the Double-Bottom Line: Fair Trade and the Elusive Win-win	p. 185
Mission Control: Examining the Institutionalization of New Legal Forms of Social Enterprise in Different Strategic Action Fields	p. 198
Postscript: The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre-paradigmatic Field	p. 222
Index	p. 249
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