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

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This paper 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 paper, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.

Original language	English
Article number	0
Pages (from-to)	1032-1056
Number of pages	25
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 - 1 Sept 2020

Keywords

social entrepreneurship
critical realism,
China
context
opportunity

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Xiaoti Hu, Susan Marlow, Angelika Zimmermann, Lee Martin & Regina Frank. 'Understanding Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Realist Abstraction'. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1042258719879633. © 2019 The Author(s). All rights reserved.
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