Citation
Doherty, B. (2014), "Editorial", Social Enterprise Journal, Vol. 10 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-03-2014-0017
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: Social Enterprise Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1
I am delighted to introduce to you the Social Enterprise Journal’s first edition of 2014 published by Emerald publishers. First, I would like to thank the journal board, the selected reviewers and of course the authors for the papers enclosed.
The first paper by Chris Cornforth (Open University Business School) is titled “Understanding and combating mission drift in social enterprises”. This paper highlights how high dependence on a resource provider and the demands of “competing” institutional environments can lead to mission drift. In addition, the paper sets out practical steps social enterprises can take in terms of governance to try to prevent mission drift. The second paper by David Sarpong and Clayton Davies (Bristol Business School, University of West England) titled “Managerial organizing practices and legitimacy seeking in social enterprises” investigates the organizing practices and activities that social enterprises use to build legitimacy to attract the necessary support, relationships and investments they require to function and grow.
The third paper by Marcello Bertotti, Younghee Han, Gopalakrishnan and Kevin Sheridan (University of East London) is titled ‘Governance in South Korean social enterprises: are there alternative models?’ and is the first published paper to investigate social enterprise governance in a South Korean context. Our fourth paper by Aileen Karla Boluk (Dalarna University, Human Geography, Sweden) and Zienne Mottiar (Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Hospitality Management and Tourism) titled “Motivations of social entrepreneurs: blurring the social contribution and profits dichotomy” unveils other motivations for social entrepreneurs in addition to community interests.
Our final paper by Cynthia Van Hulle and Nico Dewaelheyns (University of Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, Accountancy, Finance and Insurance) is titled “Why do private non-profit organizations provide information on the Internet?” This paper measures information provision on the Internet by private non-profit organizations and provides insight in underlying drivers.
The Social Enterprise Journal will also support the Sixth International Social Innovation Research Conference 2-4th September 2013 at Northampton Business School. We look forward to article submissions from this conference.
Bob Doherty