Social Entrepreneurship and the Common Good
Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings
ISBN: 978-1-80382-662-2, eISBN: 978-1-80382-661-5
Publication date: 22 September 2022
Abstract
The common good refers to contextual conditions that contribute to human wellbeing and flourishing, such as prosperous communities and environmental sustainability. In this paper, we consider how entrepreneurship impacts society by investigating the generalized outcomes of social entrepreneurship on the common good. From a qualitative study of ten large and profitable social enterprises in the United Kingdom, we theorize how social entrepreneurship contributes to the common good in the short and long term. We also conjecture how some commercial practices undermine the common good and further, explain how the common good performs as a conceptual anchor for social entrepreneurship.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the ESRC award of Impact Accelerator. We also thank participants at the Hybrid Organizing workshop (University of York, 2019) and the Reversing the Arrow Conference (2020), in particular Professors Bob Eberhart, Andreea Gorbatai, Dev Jennings, and Michael Lounsbury.
Citation
Haugh, H.M. and Doherty, B. (2022), "Social Entrepreneurship and the Common Good", Eberhart, R.N., Lounsbury, M. and Aldrich, H.E. (Ed.) Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 82), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 89-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000082005
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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