Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment
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Entrepreneurship is increasingly considered to be integral to development; however, social and cultural norms impact on the extent to which women in developing countries engage with, and accrue the benefits of, entrepreneurial activity. Using data collected from 49 members of a rural social enterprise in North India, we examine the relationships between social entrepreneurship, empowerment and social change. Innovative business processes that facilitated women’s economic activity and at the same time complied with local social and cultural norms that constrain their agency contributed to changing the social order itself. We frame emancipatory social entrepreneurship as processes that (1) empower women and (2) contribute to changing the social order in which women are embedded.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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Citations in the corpus
- Social Entrepreneurship in Non-munificent Institutional Environments and Implications for Institutional Work: Insights from China (2017, neutral): “The contributions made by social enterprises to local communities and socioeconomically disadvantaged people are being increasingly documented in many parts of the world (Bacq and Janssen 2011; Defourny and Nyssens 2012; Haugh and Talwar 2016; Kistruck et al. 2013; Qureshi et al. 2016).”
- Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, background): “Moreover, SE empowers women and contributes to altering the social order in which they are embedded (Haugh and Talwar, 2016; Spencer, Brueckner, Wise, & Marika, 2016).”
- Social Entrepreneurship as a Path for Social Change and Driver of Sustainable Development: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda (2019, neutral): “More in-depth interviews with informants shall better manage the cultural and social issues concerning access to informants, social desirability bias [29].”