...Laíse Nascimento; Linnik Lima; José Carlos Lázaro da Silva-Filho; Bruno Lessa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how social enterprises build local infrastructures of care and (re)compose social value in contexts marked by institutional voids in Brazil’s Northeast. Design...

... (innovation vs. impact), incubation duration (up to 2 years in Brazil, up to 4 in Portugal), and support for different hybrid typologies. Policies such as PIS 2030 (Portugal) mitigate institutional voids, while in Brazil challenges remain regarding access to capital and regulation. Research limitations...

... using their social network and understanding of the highly personalised setting, are key in attaining legitimacy for their social enterprises in Africa. Another subtheme is the concept of institutional voids (Sydow et al., 2022 ; Nason and Bothello, 2022). This term is commonly understood...