Navigating between Opportunities and Risks: The Effects of Hybridity for Social Enterprises Engaged in Social Innovation

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Abstract

This article focuses on the hybridity of social enterprises, organizations that strive to create social and economic value simultaneously. It analyses how social entrepreneurs and local government deal with the hybridity resulting from mixing these two opposing values and what it means for social enterprises’ contributions to processes of social innovation, e.g. new ways of dealing with societal problems using innovative constellation of organizations and other actors. The article discusses the results of a study of social enterprises in and around the cities of Rotterdam, The Hague and Dordrecht in the Netherlands and by doing so looks at an urban subset of social enterprises engaged in social innovation. In the underlying study, document analysis, interviews and a survey were used to identify what drives social entrepreneurs to engage in processes of social innovation, how they generate results and how they deal with the tensions due to hybridity. The article discusses the positive and negative effects of hybridity affecting social enterprises and describes avenues for further research on the subject.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-60
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity
Volume7
Issue number1
Early online date19 Sept 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Bibliographical note

An earlier version of this article was presented at the 6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise and was subsequently selected for publication on the EMES website (Karré and Mossel, 2017).

JEL Classification: L31; O35

Research programs

  • ESSB PA

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