Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment

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• 作者：Helen M. Haugh ; Alka Talwar
• 关键词：Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneuring ; Social enterprise ; Emancipation ; Empowerment
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：133
• 期：4
• 页码：643-658
• 全文大小：481 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

Entrepreneurship is increasingly considered to be integral to development; however, social and cultural norms impact on the extent to which women in developing countries engage with, and accrue the benefits of, entrepreneurial activity. Using data collected from 49 members of a rural social enterprise in North India, we examine the relationships between social entrepreneurship, empowerment and social change. Innovative business processes that facilitated women’s economic activity and at the same time complied with local social and cultural norms that constrain their agency contributed to changing the social order itself. We frame emancipatory social entrepreneurship as processes that (1) empower women and (2) contribute to changing the social order in which women are embedded.