Social entrepreneurship between cross-currents : towards a framework of theoretical restructuring of the field

Nicolopoulou, Katerina (2014) Social entrepreneurship between cross-currents : towards a framework of theoretical restructuring of the field. Journal of Small Business Management, 54 (4). 678–702. ISSN 0047-2778

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Abstract

Scholars have characterized social entrepreneurship as an “accumulative fragmentalism,” primarily characterized by the use of case studies featuring prominent and innovative profiles of social enterprises and entrepreneurs. However, today, social entrepreneurship is between cross-currents. On the one hand, it seeks, as a subfield, to solidify its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and standpoints. On the other hand, it is consistently exposed to field expansion, given that a number of its underlying frameworks, commonly shared with other fields (such as sustainability and corporate social responsibility [CSR]), are opening up to wider vistas of conceptualization and theorization. This is often through the influence of practice as well as theory. The contribution of the paper is threefold. First, it enhances our understanding of social entrepreneurship field development by identifying cross-currents and by highlighting new angles for paradigmatic and theoretical positioning. Second, it implements a framework that scholars previously employed within the original field of entrepreneurship (Bourdieu's theory of capitals and their transformations); in doing so, it also proceeds to propose an enrichment to the framework by including additional capitals that are specifically relevant for the field of social entrepreneurship and that are influenced by common agendas, as those exist in the fields of sustainability and CSR. Third, it offers insights for theory, as well as practice, which relate to understandings from the first two contributions.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:47000
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    October 2014
    Published
    17 September 2014
    Published Online
    Keywords:social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility (CSR), framework, restructuring, Bourdieu's theory of capitals, Commerce, Management. Industrial Management, Business, Management and Accounting(all), Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Commerce
    Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:28 Feb 2014 11:29
    Last modified:15 Sep 2021 16:57
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47000
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