Assessing Mission and Resources for Social Change: An Organizational Identity Perspective on Social Venture Capitalists‘ Decision Criteria

By Toyah L. Miller, Curtis L. Wesley. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation (2015, background): “Clearly, the extent to which a firm adheres to a social mission is often a matter of relative priority between its social and economic missions (Certo & Miller, 2008; Chell; Dacin et al., 2011; Desa, 2007; Mair & Marti, 2006; Miller & Wesley, 2010; Peredo & McLean, 2006; Tan, Williams, & Tan, 2005).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “For example, Miller and Wesley (2010) found that social venture capitalists' evaluations of social entrepreneurs' passion positively influenced their evaluations of the social entrepreneurs' effectiveness, thus bolstering access to additional resources.”
Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship (2018, unknown): “Many subsequent studies evoke the potential that social ventures have to diversify their sources of funding to include earned income as well as grants, donations and other forms of philanthropy (Emerson and Twersky 1996; Miller and Wesley 2010; Teasdale 2010).”
What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions (2019, unknown): “Given the important role organizations that startup assistance organizations using a dual logic (e.g., SIAs, SVCs, microfinanciers, socially-responsible investors) are having in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, we believe that a deeper understanding of how they interpret signals is essential.”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, unknown): “For example, one group of studies focuses on the issue of funding, such as how a venture’s orientation (Calic & Mosakowski, 2016) and identity (Miller & Wesley, 2010) enhance its fund-raising capability, while others point to the importance of embeddedness in social networks (Smith & Stevens, 2010)…”
Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: Complementary or disjoint phenomena? (2017, background): “For instance, for-profit social entrepreneurs may pursue startup funding from traditional angel investors and venture capitalists (e.g. cf. Sahlman, 1990) and impact investors (Miller et al., 2010; Roundy, 2014a).”