1,141
Views
26
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Distinguishing game changers from boastful charlatans: Which social enterprises measure their impact?

&

References

  • Aidis, R., S. Estrin, and T. Mickiewicz. 2008. “Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Business Venturing 23 (6): 656–672.
  • Alvord, S. H., L. D. Brown, and C. W. Letts. 2004. “Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation an Exploratory Study.” The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 40 (3): 260–282.
  • Amit, R., and C. Zott. 2001. “Value Creation in e-Business.” Strategic Management Journal 22: 493–520.
  • André, K., and A. C. Pache. 2016. “From Caring Entrepreneur to Caring Enterprise: Addressing the Ethical Challenges of Scaling up Social Enterprises.” Journal of Business Ethics 133 (4): 659–675. doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2445-8
  • Andreoni, J. 1990. “Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving.” The Economic Journal 100 (401): 464–477.
  • Anheier, H. K., and D. Leat. 2006. Creative Philanthropy: Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century. Oxon: Rutledge.
  • Ann, K. B., C. A. Allen, and A. R. Matthew. 1999. “Beyond Resources: The Mediating Effect of Top Management Discretion and Values on Corporate Philanthropy.” Business and Society 38 (2): 167–187.
  • Ashoka. 2011. Everyone a Changemaker: 2011 Annual Report. www.ashoka.org/.
  • Atkinson, A. A., J. H. Waterhouse, and R. B. Wells. 1997. “A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Performance Measurement.” MIT Sloan Management Review 38 (3): 25.
  • Austin, J., R. Gutierrez, E. Ogliastri, and E. Reficco. 2006a. Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons From Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica. Cambridge: Harvard University.
  • Austin, J., H. Stevenson, and J. Wei-Skillern. 2006b. “Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Same, Different, or Both?.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 30 (1): 1–22.
  • Bacq, S., C. Hartog, and B. Hoogendoorn. 2013. “A Quantitative Comparison of Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations in Context.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 4 (1): 40–68.
  • Baron, R. A. 2007. “Behavioral and Cognitive Factors in Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs as the Active Element in New Venture Creation.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1 (1–2): 167–182.
  • Borins, S. 2000. “Loose Cannons and Rule Breakers, or Enterprising Leaders? Some Evidence About Innovative Public Managers.” Public Administration Review 60 (6): 498–507.
  • Borzaga, C., R. Bodini, C. Carini, S. Depedri, G. Galera, and G. Salvatori. 2014. “Europe in Transition: The Role of Social Cooperatives and Social Enterprises.” Euricse Working Papers 69|14. SSRN. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2436456.
  • Bowen, H. P., and D. DeClercq. 2008. “Institutional Context and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Effort.” Journal of International Business Studies 39 (4): 747.
  • Bruno, A. V., J. L. Woolley, and E. D. Carlson. 2014. “An Empirical Analysis of the Missions, Funding Sources, and Survival of Social Ventures.” In Theory and Empirical Research in Social Entrepreneurship, edited by P. H. Phan, J. Kidal, S. Bacq and M. Dordqvist, 174–190. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Bruton, G. D., D. Ahlstrom, and H. L. Li. 2010. “Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship: Where are We Now and Where Do We Need to Move in the Future?” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 34 (3): 421–440.
  • Bucaciuc, A. 2015. “Social Enterprises: From Potential to Impact.” The Annals of the University of Oradea. Economic Sciences XXIV (1): 408–412.
  • Bugg-Levine, A., and J. Emerson. 2011. “Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money while Making a Difference.” Innovations 6 (3): 9–18.
  • Carroll, A. B. 2000. “Ethical Challenges for Business in the New Millennium: Corporate Social Responsibility and Models of Management Morality.” Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (1): 33–42.
  • Carroll, A. B., and K. M. Shabana. 2010. “The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility. A Review of Concepts, Research and Practice.” International Journal of Management Reviews 12 (1): 85–105.
  • Caulier-Grice, J., A. Davies, R. Patrick, and W. Norman. 2012. “Defining Social Innovation.” Part One of Social Innovation Overview: A deliverable of the project: “The theoretical, Empirical and Policy Foundations for Building Social Innovation in Europe” (TEPSIE), European Commission – 7th Framework Programme. Brussels: European Commission, DG Research.
  • Cegarra-Navarro, J. G., C. Reverte, E. Gómez-Melero, and A. K. Wensley. 2016. “Linking Social and Economic Responsibilities with Financial Performance: The Role of Innovation.” European Management Journal 34 (5): 530–539.
  • Certo, S. T., and T. Miller. 2008. “Social Entrepreneurship: Key Issues and Concepts.” Business Horizons 51 (4): 267–271.
  • Chell, E., K. Nicolopoulou, and M. Karataş-Özkan. 2010. “Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise: International and Innovation Perspectives.” Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal 22 (6): 485–493.
  • Choi, N., and S. Majumdar. 2014. “Social Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept: Opening a New Avenue for Systematic Future Research.” Journal of Business Venturing 29 (3): 363–376.
  • Cinquini, L., and A. Tenucci. 2007. Is the Adoption of Strategic Management Accounting Techniques Really 'Strategy-Driven'? Evidence From a Survey. MPRA Paper, SSRN. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1012881.
  • Clark, C., W. Rosenzweig, D. Long, and S. Olsen. 2004. Double Bottom Line Project Report: Assessing Social Impact in Double Bottom Line Ventures. http://www.riseproject.org/DBL_Methods_Catalog.pdf.
  • Covin, J. G., and W. J. Wales. 2012. “The Measurement of Entrepreneurial Orientation.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 36 (4): 677–702.
  • Dacin, P., M. Dacin, and M. Matear. 2010. “Social Entrepreneurship: Why we don't Need a New Theory and how we Move Forward from Here.” The Academy of Management Perspectives 3: 37–57.
  • Dees, G. 1998. “Enterprising Nonprofits.” Harvard Business Review 76 (1): 55–66.
  • Defourny, J., and M. Nyssens. 2010a. “Social Enterprise in Europe: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Third Sector.” Policy and Society 29 (3): 231–242.
  • Defourny, J., and M. Nyssens. 2010b. “Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Convergences and Divergences.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 1 (1): 32–53.
  • Defourny, J., and M. Nyssens. 2013. “Social Co-Operatives: When Social Enterprises Meet the Co-Operative Tradition.” Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 2 (2): 11–33.
  • Di Domenico, M., H. Haugh, and P. Tracey. 2010. “Social Bricolage: Theorizing Social Value Creation in Social Enterprises.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 34 (4): 681–703.
  • Donegani, C. P., S. McKay, and D. Moro. 2012. “A Dimming of the ‘Warm Glow’? Are Non-Profit Workers in the UK Still More Satisfied with Their Jobs than Other Workers?” Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms 13: 313–342.
  • Drucker. 1995. Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 28. New York: Harper Business.
  • Ebrahim, A., and V. K. Rangan. 2014. “What Impact?” California Management Review 56 (3): 118–141.
  • Ebrahim, A. S., and V. K. Rangan. 2010. Putting the brakes on impact: A contingency framework for measuring social performance. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
  • Ebrahim, A., J. Battilana, and J. Mair. 2014. “The Governance of SocialEnterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in HybridOrganizations.” Research in Organizational Behavior 34: 81–100.
  • Eckhardt, J. T., and S. A. Shane. 2003. “Opportunities and Entrepreneurship.” Journal of management 29 (3): 333–349.
  • Elkington, J. 1999. Cannibal with Forks, the Triple Bottom Line of the 21st Century Business. UK: Capstone.
  • Elkington, J., J. Emerson, and S. Beloe. 2006. “The Value Palette: A Tool For a Full Spectrum Strategy.” California Management Review 48 (2): 6–28.
  • Emerson, J. 2003a. “The Blended Value Preposition: Integrating Social and Financial Return.” California Management Review 45 (4): 35–51.
  • Emerson, J. 2003b. “Where Money Meets Mission.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 1 (2): 38–47.
  • Epstein, M. J., and A. R. Buhovac. 2014. Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts. Sheffield: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  • Epstein, M. and K. Yuthas. 2014. Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  • Esteves, A. M., D. Franks, and F. Vanclay. 2012. “Social Impact Assessment: The State of the Art.” Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 30 (1): 34–42.
  • Fiennes, C. 2012. It ain't what you give, it's the way that you give it. Giving Evidence.
  • Fox-Wolfgramm, S. J., K. B. Boal, and J. G. (Jerry) Hunt. 1998. “Organizational Adaptation to Institutional Change: A Comparative Study of First-Order Change in Prospector and Defender Banks.” Administrative Science Quarterly 87–126.
  • Freudenburg, W. R. 1986. “Social Impact Assessment.” Annual Review of Sociology 12: 451–478. doi: 10.1146/annurev.so.12.080186.002315.
  • Garengo, P., S. Biazzo, and U. S. Bititci. 2005. “Performance Measurement Systems in SMEs: A Review for a Research Agenda.” International Journal of Management Reviews 7 (1): 25–47.
  • Gaynor, G. H. 2002. Innovation by Design: What it Takes to Keep your Company on the Cutting Edge. New York, NY: AMACOM American Management Association.
  • Germak, A. J., and J. A. Robinson. 2014. “Exploring the Motivation of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 5 (1): 5–21.
  • Ghisellini, P., C. Cialani, and S. Ulgiati. 2016. “A Review on Circular Economy: The Expected Transition to a Balanced Interplay of Environmental and Economic Systems.” Journal of Cleaner Production 114: 11–32.
  • Gray, R. 2002. “The Social Accounting Project and Accounting Organizations and Society Privileging Engagement, Imaginings, New Accountings and Pragmatism over Critique?” Accounting, Organizations and Society 27 (7): 687–708.
  • Gray, R. 2010. “Is Accounting for Sustainability Actually Accounting for Sustainability… and How Would We Know? An Exploration of Narratives of Organisations and the Planet.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 35 (1): 47–62.
  • Grieco, C. 2015. Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises: Does One Size Really Fit All?. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.
  • Grieco, C., L. Michelini, and G. Iasevoli. 2015. “Measuring Value Creation in Social Enterprises a Cluster Analysis of Social Impact Assessment Models.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 44 (6): 1173–1193.
  • Guilding, C., K. S. Cravens, and M. Tayles. 2000. “An International Comparison of Strategic Management Accounting Practices.” Management Accounting Research 11 (1): 113–135.
  • Hall, B. H., & Lerner, J. (2010). The financing of R&D and innovation. Handbook of the Economics of Innovation 1, 609–639.
  • Haugh, H. 2005. “A Research Agenda for Social Entrepreneurship.” Social enterprise journal 1 (1): 1–12.
  • Haugh, H. M., and A. Talwar. 2016. “Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment.” Journal of Business Ethics 133 (4): 643–658.
  • Herrera, M. E. B. 2016. “Innovation for Impact: Business Innovation for Inclusive Growth.” Journal of Business Research 69 (5): 1725–1730.
  • Hoogendoorn, B., H. P. G. Pennings, and A. R. Thurik. 2010. “What Do We Know About Social Entrepreneurship? An Analysis of Empirical Research.” International Review of Entrepreneurship 8 (2): 71–112.
  • Hoogendoorn, B. 2011. Social Entrepreneurship in the Modern Economy: Warm Glow, Cold Feet. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • Hoogendoorn, B., S. Bacq, and C. Hartog. 2016. “Beyond the Moral Portrayal of Social Entrepreneurs.” Journal of Business Ethics 133: 703–718. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2446-7
  • Husted, B. W., and J. de Jesus Salazar. 2006. “Taking Friedman Seriously: Maximizing Profits and Social Performance.” Journal of Management Studies 43 (1): 75–91.
  • Jack, S. L., and A. R. Anderson. 2002. “The Effects of Embeddedness on the Entrepreneurial Process.” Journal of Business Venturing 17 (5): 467–487.
  • Jennings, P. D., R. Greenwood, M. D. Lounsbury, and R. Suddaby. 2013. “Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and Communities: A Special Issue on Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing 28 (1): 1–9.
  • Korosec, R. L., and E. M. Berman. 2006. “Municipal Support for Social Entrepreneurship.” Public Administration Review 66 (3): 448–462.
  • Kramer, M. R. 2005. Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship. Boston, MA: Foundation Strategy Group.
  • Le Ber, M., P. Bansal, and O. Branzei. 2010. “Managing the Tensions Between Social and Economic Value in Hybrid Organizations.” Conference proceedings A.S.A.C conference: Enterprising our world, sustainable business in action, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 22–25.
  • Lepoutre, J., R. Justo, S. Terjesen, and N. Bosma. 2013. “Designing a Global Standardized Methodology for Measuring Social Entrepreneurship Activity: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social Entrepreneurship Study.” Small Business Economics 40 (3): 693–714.
  • Light, P. C. 2006. “Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 4 (3): 47–51.
  • Liket, K. C., M. Rey-Garcia, and K. E. Maas. 2014. “Why Aren't Evaluations Working and What to Do About It: A Framework for Negotiating Meaningful Evaluation in Nonprofits.” American Journal of Evaluation 35 (2): 171–188.
  • Liu, G., T. Y. Eng, and S. Takeda. 2015. “An Investigation of Marketing Capabilities and Social Enterprise Performance in the UK and Japan.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 39 (2): 267–298.
  • Maas, K., and F. Boons. 2010. “CSR as a Strategic Activity.” In Innovative CSR, edited by C. Louche, S. O. Idowu and W. Leal Filho, 154–172. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing. S.
  • Maas, K., S. Schaltegger, and N. Crutzen. 2016. “Integrating Corporate Sustainability Assessment, Management Accounting, Control and Reporting.” Journal of Cleaner Reporting (in print).
  • Maas, K. E. H. 2009. Corporate Social Performance: From Output Measurement to Impact Measurement. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
  • Maas, K. E. H., and K. C. Liket. 2011a. “Social Impact Measurement: A Classification of Methods.” In Environmental Management Accounting, Supply Chain Management and Corporate Responsibility Accounting, edited by R. Burrit, 171–202. Netherlands: Springer.
  • Maas, K. E. H., and K. C. Liket. 2011b. “Talk the Walk: Impact Measurement of Corporate Philanthropy.” Journal of Business Ethics 100 (3): 445–464.
  • Maas, K. E. H., and K. C. Liket. 2016. “Strategic Philanthropy: A Happy Marriage of Business and Society?” Business and Society 55 (6): 889–921. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650314565356
  • Mair, J., J. Battilana, and J. Cardenas. 2012. “Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models.” Journal of business ethics 111 (3): 353–373.
  • Mair, J., and J. Marti. 2006. “Social Entrepreneurships Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction and Delight.” Journal of World Business 41 (1): 36–44.
  • Mair, J., and O. Schoen. 2007. “Successful Social Entrepreneurial Business Models in the Context of Developing Economies: An Explorative Study International.” Journal of Emerging Markets 2 (1): 54–68.
  • Martin, R. J., and S. Osberg. 2007. “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for a Definition.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 5 (2): 29–39.
  • Massetti, B. L. 2008. “The Social Entrepreneurship Matrix as a “Tipping Point” for Economic Change.” In Complexity Science and Social Entrepreneurship: Adding Social Value Through Systems Thinking, edited by J. Goldstein, J. K. Hazy and J. Silberstang, 31–42. Garden City: Adelphi.
  • Meadows, M., and M. Pike. 2010. “Performance Management for Social Enterprises.” Systemic Practice and Action Research 23 (2): 127–141.
  • Meyer, J. W., and B. Rowan. 1977. “Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony.” The American Journal of Sociology 83 (2): 340–363.
  • Miller, T. L., and C. L. Wesley II. 2010. “Assessing Mission and Resources for Social Change: An Organizational Identity Perspective on Social Venture Capitalists' Decision Criteria.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 34 (4): 705–733.
  • Mort, G., J. Weerawardena, and K. Carnegie. 2003. “Social Entrepreneurship: Towards Conceptualisation.” International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 8 (1): 76–88.
  • Ney, S., M. Beckmann, D. Gräbnitz, and R. Mirkovic. 2014. “Social Entrepreneurs and Social Change: Tracing Impacts of Social Entrepreneurship Through Ideas, Structures and Practices.” International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 6 (1): 51–68.
  • Nicholls, A. 2005. Measuring Impact in Social Entrepreneurship: New Accountabilities to Stakeholders and Investors? Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. http://eureka.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  • Nicholls, A. 2009. “We do Good Things, don't we?: Blended Value Accounting in Social Entrepreneurship.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (6): 755–769.
  • Nicholls, A. 2010. “The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre-Paradigmatic Field.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 34 (4): 611–633.
  • Nicholls, A., and A. H. Cho. 2006. “Social Entrepreneurship: TheStructuration of a Field.” Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change 1: 99–118.
  • Nicholls, J. 2007. “Why Measuring and Communicating Social Value Can Help Social Enterprise Become More Competitive.” Cabine Office, Office of the Third Sector. http://evpa.eu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Why-measuring-and-communicating-social-value-can-help-social-enterprise-become-more-competitive1.pdf.
  • OECD. 2005. “Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005. Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data.” http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/2367580.pdf.
  • OECD. 2010. “SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3746,en_2649_33956792_44938128_1_1_1_1,00.html.
  • OECD. 2015. “Policy Brief on Social Impact Measurement for Social Enterprises.” http://www.oecd.org/industry/Policy-Brief-social-impact.pdf.
  • Ormiston, J., and R. Seymour. 2011. “Understanding Value Creation in Social Entrepreneurship: The Importance of Aligning Mission, Strategy and Impact Measurement.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 2 (2): 125–150.
  • Peredo, A. M., and M. Mclean. 2006. “Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review of the Concept.” Journal of World Business 41 (1): 56–65.
  • Perrini, F., and C. Vurro. 2006. “Social Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Social Change Across Theory and Practice”. In Social Entrepreneurship, edited by J. Mair, J. Robinson and K. Hockerts, 57–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Phills, J. A., K. Deiglmeier, and D. T. Miller. 2008. “Rediscovering Social Innovation.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 6 (4): 34–43.
  • Pless, N. M. 2012. “Social Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice – an Introduction.” Journal of Business Ethics 111 (3): 317–320.
  • Porter, M. E., G. Hills, M. Pfitzer, S. Patscheke, and E. Hawkins. 2012. “Measuring Shared Value. How to Unlock Value by lLinking Social and Business Results.” FSG. http://www.fsg.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/PDF/Measuring_Shared_Value.pdf.
  • Porter, M. E., and M. R. Kramer. 2011. “Creating Shared Value.” Harvard Business Review 89 (1/2): 62–77.
  • Prabhu, G. N. 1999. “Social Entrepreneurial Leadership.” Career Development International 4 (3): 140–145.
  • Renko, M. 2013. “Early Challenges of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 37 (5): 1045–1069.
  • Roy, M. J., C. Donaldson, R. Baker, and S. Kerr. 2014. “The Potential of Social Enterprise to Enhance Health and Well-Being: A Model and Systematic Review.” Social Science & Medicine 123: 182–193.
  • Ruttman, R. 2012. “New Ways to Invest for Social and Environmental Impact.” In Credit Suisse Research, Investing for Impact: How Social Entrepreneurship is Redefining the Meaning of Return. World Economic Forum. www.weforum.org/pdf/schwabfound/Investing_for_Impact.pdf.
  • Salazar, J., B. W. Husted, and M. Biehl. 2012. “Thoughts on the Evaluation of Corporate Social Performance Through Projects.” Journal of Business Ethics 105 (2): 175–186.
  • Schaltegger, S., and R. Burritt. 2015. “Business Cases and Corporate Engagement with Sustainability: Differentiating Ethical Motivations.” Journal of Business Ethics 1–19. doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2938-0.
  • Foundation, S. 2011. Social Entrepreneur of the Year India 2011, Social Entrepreneurship for Inclusive Growth. http://www.jubilantbhartiafoundation.com/seoy-profile-booklet-2011.pdf.
  • Schildt, H. A., S. A. Zahra, and A. Sillanpää. 2006. “Scholarly Communities in Entrepreneurship Research: A Co-citation Analysis.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 30 (3): 399–415.
  • Seelos, C., and J. Mair. 2007. “How Social Entrepreneurs Enable Human, Social, and Economic Development.” In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Rangan, J. Quelch, G. Herrero and B. Barton, 271–294. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Seelos, C., J. Mair, J. Battilana, and M. Tina Dacin. 2011. “TheEmbeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation Across Local Communities.” In Communities and Organizations, 333–363. Emerald Group Publishing.
  • Sen, A. 2000. “Development as Freedom.” Development in Practice-Oxford 10 (2): 258–258.
  • Shane, S., and S., Venkataraman. 2001. “Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research: A Response to Zahra and Dess, Singh, 725 and Erikson.” Academy of Management Review 26 (1): 13–16.
  • Shanmugalingam, C., J. Graham, T. Simon, and G. Mulgan. 2011. “Growing Social Ventures. The Role of Intermediaries and Investors: Who They Are, What They Do, and What They Could Become.” The Young Foundation. Accessed 15 May 2013. http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/Growing_Social_Ventures.pdf.
  • Shorrock, A. 2008. “Opening Address.” Presented at the United Nations University-WIDER Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Short, J. C., T. W. Moss, and G. T. Lumpkin. 2009. “Research in Social Entrepreneurship: Past Contributions and Future Opportunities.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 3 (2): 161–194.
  • Smith, B. R., G. M. Kistruck, and B. Cannatelli. 2016. “The Impact of Moral Intensity and Desire for Control on Scaling Decisions in Social Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Ethics 133 (4): 677–689.
  • Stevens, R., N. Moray, and J. Bruneel. 2015. “The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 39 (5): 1051–1082. doi: 10.1111/etap.12091.
  • Swanson, L. A., and D. D. Zhang. 2010. “The Social Entrepreneurship Zone.” Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing 22 (2): 71–88.
  • Terjesen, S., J. Lepoutre, R. Justo, and N. Bosma. 2012. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report on Social Entrepreneurship. Babson Park, MA: Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA).
  • Thompson, J. 2002. “The World of the Social Entrepreneur.” International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (5): 412–431.
  • Tobias, J. M., J. Mair, and C. Barbosa-Leiker. 2013. “Toward a Theory of Transformative Entrepreneuring: Poverty Reduction and Conflict Resolution in Rwanda's Entrepreneurial Coffee Sector.” Journal of Business Venturing 28 (6): 728–742.
  • Tracey, P., and O. Jarvis. 2007. “Toward a Theory of Social Venture Franchising.” Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice 31 (5): 667–685.
  • Tracey, P., and N. Stott. 2016. “Social Innovation: A Window on Alternative Ways of Organizing and Innovating.” Innovation 1–10.
  • Vanclay, F. 2003. “International Principles for Social Impact Assessment.” Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 21 (1): 5–11. doi: 10.3152/147154603781766491.
  • Van Tulder, R., M. Seitanidi, A. W. Crane, and S. Brammer. 2016. “Enhancing the Impact of Cross-Sector Partnerships. Four Impact Loops for Channelling Partnership Studies.” Journal of Business Ethics 135 (1): 1–17. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2756-4.
  • Wallace, S. L. 1999. “Social Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Purpose Enterprises in Facilitating Community Economic Development.” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 4: 153–174.
  • WBCSD. 2014. Reporting Matters. Improving the Effectiveness of Reporting One Year On. Geneva: World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
  • Witjes, S., and R. Lozano. 2016. “Towards a more Circular Economy: Proposing a Framework Linking Sustainable Public Procurement and Sustainable Business Models.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 112: 37–44.
  • Wood, D. J. 2010. “Measuring Corporate Social Performance: A Review.” International Journal of Management Reviews 12 (1): 50–84.
  • Yunus, M. 2009. “Social Business as the Future of Capitalism: Let's put Poverty in the Museum.” Hitotsubashi Business Review 57 (1): 7–13.
  • Zahra, S. A., E. Gedajlovic, D. O. Neubaum, and J. M. Shulman. 2009. “A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, Search Processes and Ethical Challenges.” Journal of Business Venturing 24 (5): 519–532.
  • Zahra, S. A., L. R. Newey, and Y. Li. 2014. “On the Frontiers: The Implications of Social Entrepreneurship for International Entrepreneurship.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 38 (1): 137–158.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.