... such questions, we propose an approach that embraces Polanyi’s core concept of “embeddedness” to unpack the conditions under which social enterprises might help facilitate the democratic organisation of society: embedding economic activity in non-economic values, instead of merely securing the conditions...

... capital are alienated from state institutions, whereas enterprises that offer alternative solutions to governmental priorities are seen as competitors by political agents. Originality/value Applying Granovetter’s theory of “embeddedness” and Herold et al.’s (2019) and Popov et al.’s...

... with the aim of increasing the potential for social enterprise and networks literature to be detected. Boolean operations were used in the search which was based on the following key word string: Social entrepreneurship Social innovation Embeddedness Social capital Networks Actor-network theory...