Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion

Journal of Business Venturing, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 38(2), P. 106283 - 106283

Published: Jan. 7, 2023

Language: Английский

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Navigating the Complexity of Entrepreneurial Ethics: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(14), P. 11099 - 11099

Published: July 16, 2023

Entrepreneurship is a multifaceted and constantly evolving process that often marked by various challenges, such as environmental uncertainty, resource constraints, intense competition, ambiguous roles. These complexities can give rise to ethical dilemmas, including conflicts of interest unethical behavior, which further be compounded the incorporation digital technology in entrepreneurship. Despite growing recognition significance entrepreneurial ethics, research this area remains limited fragmented. Therefore, study aims navigate complexity ethics address knowledge gaps conducting systematic review extant literature field entrepreneurship, management between 2003 2023 using PRISMA protocol. The focuses on three key aspects: (1) factors shape perception climate, (2) influence decision making (3) consequences decisions behavior. This proposes future avenues deepen our understanding interplay stakeholder making, relationship leadership performance. Ultimately, findings from provide comprehensive framework for examining comprehending critical domain effectively dilemmas establish socially conscious ventures positively impact both economy society.

Language: Английский

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Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 45(1), P. 59 - 84

Published: Sept. 14, 2023

In this paper, we examine community collectives – place-based, community-led initiatives for sustainable livelihood, as an alternative to the top-down, efficiency-driven economic model. Drawing on theoretical framework of prefigurative organizing, examined strategies employed by members in confronting entrenched inequalities and overcoming marginalization they envision engage inclusive futures. We conducted a comparative case study two exemplary India that exhibited differences degrees internal external marginalization. identified key cross-cutting themes organizing: projective cultural adjustment whether leverages their traditional culture or breaks away from it, tempered autonomy negotiating without overtly challenging dominant groups, exercising self-imposed restraints make independent decisions. show how these manifested across three processes prefiguring self-governance; commoning; cultivating discursive spaces. These findings help us theorize communities where degree is high due persisting social hierarchies, breaking past discriminatory practices, incorporating suspension consent decision-making process, introducing multiple constructive works are essential components organizing. high, building past, refusal decision-making, unified work important suggest organizing against power structure, within hierarchies exploitative political-economic structures, based selective strategic engagement seeking exit, exit might not be option place-based communities. discuss practical implications research grand challenges.

Language: Английский

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Empowering rural micro-entrepreneurs through technoficing: A process model for mobilizing and developing indigenous knowledge

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 33(2), P. 101836 - 101836

Published: April 13, 2024

The micro-entrepreneurship sector, as the second-largest employment generator in rural areas, plays a crucial role alleviating poverty. This study explores how social enterprises can assist micro-entrepreneurs mobilizing and leveraging indigenous knowledge to align production with demand. We propose technoficing strategic approach micro-entrepreneurship. conducted case of CommunityLink, enterprise implementing ICT-enabled practices facilitate growth India. Our findings reveal disconnections impeding development Importantly, we four-phase – basic, internal, external, offline-online that effectively mobilize leverage for minimal resource investment. synthesize our into comprehensive process model. research contributes discourse on ICT emerging academic dialogue decoloniality by highlighting significance empowering local institutions through use off-the-shelf technologies. Practitioners policymakers propel efforts toward improve livelihoods.

Language: Английский

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The Best of Firms, the Worst of Firms: Ethical Bifurcation in Family Businesses During Crises

Journal of Business Ethics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

Language: Английский

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Nurturing Resilient Communities: An Overview

India studies in business and economics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 25

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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Digital activism to achieve meaningful institutional change: A bricolage of crowdsourcing, social media, and data analytics

Research Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 53(3), P. 104951 - 104951

Published: Jan. 9, 2024

Language: Английский

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Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need

Journal of Business Venturing, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 39(1), P. 106342 - 106342

Published: Sept. 22, 2023

Language: Английский

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Contextually balanced engagement: Navigating paradoxes of localisation and cultural embedding in rural health information systems implementation

Information Systems Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(6), P. 2024 - 2059

Published: April 10, 2024

Abstract Although health information systems (HIS) play an important role in elevating standards, a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively implement HIS rural areas is lacking. This issue becomes more significant when considering that globally majority the approximately 1.5 million deaths children under age five 2019 were attributable vaccine‐preventable diseases occurred areas. Accordingly, we ask two questions. How does rurality influence implementation and communication technology for development (ICT4D) projects? do organisations navigate challenges associated with during these Our findings, derived from in‐depth case study social enterprise India, reveal paradoxes pose effective settings: localisation paradox cultural embedding paradox. We found contextually balanced engagement was comprised four organisational responses—prioritising; localising; adjustment; engaging stakeholders—that help posed by paradoxes. Synthesising develop process model shows shaped descriptive sociocultural characteristics rurality. Further, require dynamic approach, multiple responses over time inherent implementation. suggest paradoxical tensions stemming lead e nabled findings contribute ICT4D projects

Language: Английский

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How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development

Business & Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 63(8), P. 1842 - 1886

Published: June 15, 2024

Although the simultaneous presence of multiple ambitions is inherent in hybrid venturing, pursuing social and/or environmental missions while securing commercial viability can generate ambivalence among stakeholders. In this study, we draw on notion “holism” to show how venture founders both embrace tensioned and sustain hybridity during critical development phases. Based 6 years data The People’s Supermarket United Kingdom, identify three distinct practices— fantasizing, bartering, conjuring—used by harness tensions productively, without compromising their venture’s ambitions. These practices demonstrate founders’ ability maintain a nature throughout ideation, organizational, scale-up phases, thereby shedding light application within realm venturing.

Language: Английский

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