Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship: a critical realist abstraction
Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship: a critical realist abstraction
This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.
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Hu, Xiaoti
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Marlow, Susan
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Zimmermann, Angelika
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Martin, Lee
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Frank, Regina
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Hu, Xiaoti
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Marlow, Susan
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Zimmermann, Angelika
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Martin, Lee
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Frank, Regina
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Hu, Xiaoti, Marlow, Susan, Zimmermann, Angelika, Martin, Lee and Frank, Regina
(2019)
Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship: a critical realist abstraction.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44 (5), .
(doi:10.1177/1042258719879633).
Abstract
This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 October 2019
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ISSN: 1042-2587
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