Management Decision: Volume 57 Issue 6

Introduction to the special issue

Emmanuel B. Raufflet, Valérie Michaud, Chris Cornforth

Exploring the drivers of tensions in social innovation management in the context of social entrepreneurial teams

Frédéric Dufays

The purpose of this paper is to identify tensions that are emerging in the invention and implementation of social innovation by social entrepreneurial teams and highlights…

Dual-goal management in social enterprises: evidence from China

Juelin Yin, Huan Chen

Taking China as a research context, the purpose of this paper is to delineate how social and business tensions manifest in Chinese nascent social enterprises and to disentangle…

Inside out, outside in: “supporting members” in multi-stakeholder cooperatives

Myriam Michaud, Luc K. Audebrand

The purpose of this paper is to examine multi-stakeholder cooperatives (MSCs), a relatively new and understudied type of cooperative, by focusing on the impact of a new member…

Exploring the social innovation process in a large market based social enterprise: A dynamic capabilities approach

Martine Vézina, Majdi Ben Selma, Marie Claire Malo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the organising of social innovation in a large market-based social enterprises from the perspective of dynamic capabilities and social…

Collective social enterprises for social innovation: Understanding the potential and limitations of cross-sector partnerships in the field of work integration

Marta Rey-García, Nuria Calvo, Vanessa Mato-Santiso

Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are one type of collective social enterprise that has gained importance as a vehicle for social innovation (SI). The purpose of this paper is to…