Exploring social enterprise legitimacy within ecosystems from an institutional approach: A systematic literature review and research agenda

A Spanuth, D Urbano - International Journal of Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The legitimation of social enterprises is contingent upon the institutional context and
targeted stakeholders; however, this claim has not been explored systematically …

Internal oriented resources and social enterprises' performance: how can social enterprises help themselves before helping others?

J Cheah, A Amran, S Yahya - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
The ultimate mission of a social enterprise is to address the most pressing social or
environmental issues in society. However, the majority of the social enterprises in the …

External oriented resources and social enterprises' performance: The dominant mediating role of formal business planning

J Cheah, A Amran, S Yahya - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as an innovative and effective approach to
poverty reduction and employment generation. However, the roles undertaken by social …

[HTML][HTML] Interrelationships amongst critical success factors and rural social enterprises' performance in a developing country context

P Musinguzi, D Baker, RA Villano - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
Rural social enterprises (RSEs) are an emerging actor that applies market-based
approaches to implement a social mission: steering social and economic development. They …

The influence of causation, entrepreneurial and social orientations on social enterprise performance in the nascent ecology of social enterprise

JSS Cheah, Q Yeoh, Y Chandra - Social Enterprise Journal, 2023 - emerald.com
The influence of causation, entrepreneurial and social orientations on social enterprise
performance in the nascent ecology of social enterprise | Emerald Insight Books and journals …

Measuring social entrepreneurship: identifying and assessing the performance of social entrepreneurial ventures

J Lortie, KC Cox, S Castro… - Journal of Social …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper integrates previous research identifying and assessing the performance of social
entrepreneurial ventures to develop four new scales following psychometrically sound …

Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy

KG Pillai, SR Nair, N Zahoor, Z Khan - Management International Review, 2024 - Springer
International social alliances—in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) and social
enterprises (SEs) collaborate—are a vital source for the development and scaling up social …

Surviving and thriving in the COVID-19 crisis: Performance drivers and resource dynamics of social enterprises in a nascent ecology

A Amran, N Tharumarajah, JSS Cheah - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
This study employs structural equation modelling to investigate performance drivers and
resource dynamics in social enterprises (SEs) operating in a nascent ecology (ie, Malaysia) …

Exploring how organizational capabilities contribute to the performance of social enterprises: Insights from China

XM Yu, K Chen, JT Liu - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The impact of organizational capabilities on the performance of social enterprises (SEs) has
not been examined in the context of China. This study addresses the research gap by …

Nexus between strategic fit and social mission accomplishment in social enterprises: Does organizational form matter?

A Akhmedova, M Mas-Machuca… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organizations commonly use their mission statement as a strategic tool. In social enterprises
the mission contains social and economic elements (hybrid mission). Centrality of the social …