...Chengcheng Song; Echo Lei Wang Purpose The paper examines the key driving factors behind the rapid and uneven growth of social enterprises in China based on Kerlin’s Macro-Institutional Social Enterprise (MISE) model of social enterprise development, with an emphasis on testing key local...

...Silvia Cachero-Martínez; Nuria García-Rodríguez; Noelia Salido-Andrés Purpose This research analyzes the role of happiness associated with sustainable purchases in social enterprises (SEs) as a key precursor of prosocial behavioral responses through satisfaction with such purchases. Design...

... ; Choi et al., 2016). Social enterprises (SEs) play a vital role in society by solving social problems through commercial solutions (Doherty et al., 2014). SEs are different from profit-seeking firms because the social mission comes before profitability in SEs (Bornstein, 2007...

...Zhong Wang; Yating Zhou Yating Zhou can be contacted at: 471814535@qq.com 31 05 2019 02 12 2019 22 01 2020 28 01 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social enterprises pursue growth through...

...Yenchun Jim Wu; Tienhua Wu; Jeremiah Arno Sharpe Purpose This study aims to reach academic consensus on key factors and boundaries used in defining the concepts of “social entrepreneurship” (SEsh), “social entrepreneur” (SE), and “social enterprise” (SEV). This study also explores the complex...

...Juelin Yin; Huan Chen Purpose Taking China as a research context, the purpose of this paper is to delineate how social and business tensions manifest in Chinese nascent social enterprises and to disentangle the strategies that they adopt to manage the business-social dual goals to achieve...

... unclear to many. There exists no literature that objectively compares this model from empowerment and economic growth perspectives with other seemingly similar concepts, such as social enterprise, non-governmental organization (NGO) and corporate social responsibility. Although many NGOs have been showing...