Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship:  a critical realist abstraction

Xiaoti Hu; Susan Marlow; Angelika Zimmermann; Lee Martin; Regina  Frank

doi:10.1177/1042258719879633

Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship: a critical realist abstraction

Xiaoti Hu, Susan Marlow, Angelika Zimmermann , Lee Martin, Regina Frank

Management

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

8 Citations (Scopus)

565 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1032-1056
Journal	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Volume	44
Issue number	5
Early online date	13 Oct 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719879633
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

Keywords

China
context
critical realism
opportunities
social entrepreneurship

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1177/1042258719879633Licence: None: All rights reserved

Hu_et_al_Understanding_opportunities_in_social_entrepreneurship_a_critical_realist_abstraction_Entrepreneurship_Theory_and_Practice_2019
This is the peer reviewed version of an article accepted for publication in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Accepted author manuscript, 711 KBLicence: None: All rights reserved

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1042258719879633Licence: None: All rights reserved

Cite this

@article{97e5373146ce4c8bacb1940b4cab65f2,

title = "Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship: a critical realist abstraction",

abstract = "This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.",

keywords = "China, context, critical realism, opportunities, social entrepreneurship",

author = "Xiaoti Hu and Susan Marlow and Angelika Zimmermann and Lee Martin and Regina Frank",

year = "2020",

month = sep,

doi = "10.1177/1042258719879633",

language = "English",

volume = "44",

pages = "1032--1056",

journal = "Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice",

issn = "1042-2587",

publisher = "Wiley",

number = "5",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship

T2 - a critical realist abstraction

AU - Hu, Xiaoti

AU - Marlow, Susan

AU - Zimmermann , Angelika

AU - Martin, Lee

AU - Frank, Regina

PY - 2020/9

Y1 - 2020/9

N2 - This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.

AB - This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.

KW - China

KW - context

KW - critical realism

KW - opportunities

KW - social entrepreneurship

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074328063&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1042258719879633

DO - 10.1177/1042258719879633

M3 - Article

SN - 1042-2587

VL - 44

SP - 1032

EP - 1056

JO - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

JF - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

IS - 5

ER -