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Hu, Xiaoti, Marlow, Susan, Zimmermann, Angelika, Martin, Lee and Frank, Regina (2020) Understanding opportunities in social entrepreneurship : a critical realist abstraction. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , 44 (5). pp. 1032-1056. doi:10.1177/1042258719879633
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719879633
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social entrepreneurship -- China, Opportunity -- Economic aspects , Critical realism, Empiricism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1042-2587 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 September 2020 | ||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 November 2019 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 44 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1032-1056 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1042258719879633 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | Hu, X., Marlow, S., Zimmermann, A., Martin, L., & Frank, R. (2019). Understanding Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Realist Abstraction. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719879633 Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website (http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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