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Developing Platform Ecosystem for Resource Mobilization: The Case of Social Enterprises in India

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Pages 71-85 | Published online: 18 Jun 2018
 

ABSTRACT

Social enterprises face multiple resource mobilization challenges that they have to mitigate to address their dual mission of financial sustainability and social value creation. In this article, we argue that platform ecosystem provides one way in which the social enterprises overcome resource barriers. Through an inductive case study of two social enterprises operating in India, we identified the evolution of platform ecosystem and its linkages with other aspects such as resource challenges, legitimacy building and achievement of organizational mission. We contribute to the field of platform ecosystem and to the field of social entrepreneurship by exploring how platform ecosystem can be leveraged by social enterprises to overcome resource challenges. Our study has important implications for future research and practice.

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Pradeep Kumar Hota

Pradeep Kumar Hota is an assistant professor in the area of strategy and entrepreneurship at LM Thapar School of Management. He is pursuing Fellow Program in Management in the area of Strategic Management at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. He completed his Bachelors in Engineering from the National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur. Prior to joining IIMK, he has worked for over five years in Information Technology industry. His doctoral thesis deals with understanding resource mobilization practices of Social Enterprises. Apart from Social Entrepreneurship, his research interest lies in entrepreneurship, small business and international business.

Boby Chaitanya Villari

Boby Chaitanya Villari is pursuing doctoral studies in the field of Information Technology and Systems in Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India. He holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and has a 6-year work experience in VLSI domain, prior to pursuing the doctoral studies. His doctoral thesis is about devising and applying Machine Learning models for deployment in real-world business scenarios. He is fascinated in understanding and conducting research in the fields of IT-Strategy, Deep Reinforcement learning for real-time business applications.

Balaji Subramanian

Balaji Subramanian is an assistant professor in the area of organizational behavior and human resources at Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, India. His research interests include innovation, institutional theory, alternative organizations and social entrepreneurship. He is pursuing doctoral studies at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India. He has done his postgraduate diploma in management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and bachelors in Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University.

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