Social Enterprise Journal: Volume 19 Issue 2

Exploring how institutional trajectories and political controversies influence policymaking for SE: the case of Norway

Hilde Svrljuga Sætre, Hans Abraham Hauge

This study aims to analyse how top-level policymakers across the political left-right spectrum in a social-democratic welfare state understand social enterprise (SE), its relation…

Challenging the assumptions of social entrepreneurship education and repositioning it for the future: wonders of cultural, social, symbolic and economic capitals

Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Alain Fayolle, Graham Manville, Katerina Nicolopoulou, Ahu Tatli, Melike Tunalioglu

Social entrepreneurship education (SEE) is gaining increasing attention globally. This paper aims to focus on how SEE may be better understood and reconfigured from a Bourdieusian…

The effect of network capabilities, trust and pricing and selling capabilities on the impact of social enterprise

Judith Cavazos-Arroyo, Rogelio Puente-Diaz

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of structural and relational network capabilities on trust, and its effect on pricing and selling capabilities, as well as their…

Vulnerable social enterprises: sensemaking of the COVID-19 crisis in the Czech Republic

Ondřej Kročil, Michal Müller, Jaroslava Kubátová

Drawing on Weick’s sensemaking perspective, this study aims to describe how Czech social entrepreneurs shape the shared meaning of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Applying the stimulus-organism-response theory to investigate determinants of students’ social entrepreneurship: moderation role of perceived university support

Cong Doanh Duong

This study aims to integrate the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory with Mair and Noboa’s (2006) model to evaluate the stimulating role of education-related stimuli (i.e…

Nothing to lose: the rationales of grassroots financial innovations in contexts of extreme scarcity

Maria Jose Zapata Campos, Ester Barinaga, Richard Dimba Kiaka, Juan Ocampo

Highly deprived urban contexts, such as informal settlements in the global south, can turn into niches of extreme innovation and sparkle ingenuity out of necessity. But what are…

Institutional channeling and opportunity recognition: heterogeneous knowledge corridors as pathways to social entrepreneurship

Jason Lortie, Kevin C. Cox, Philip T. Roundy, Lee Jarvis

Despite intense scholarly interest in social entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition remains a poorly understood facet of the phenomenon. Linkages between the micro- and…