...Alejandro Ojeda-Cortés; José Luis Camarena Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a social circular economy ( SCE ) as a hybrid business model that combines elements from the circular economy and social business to promote sustainable development and illustrates how, through...

...Jeffrey S. S. Cheah; Azlan Amran; Mahendran Kirubakaran; Daniel J. Lang; Pek-Fuen Su; Jenn-Weng Chu Purpose This study aims to illuminate the limited understanding of viable social business among corporate actors in developing countries. It addresses pressing environmental and societal problems...

... capability Trust Marketing capabilities Social impact Social business Social enterprises are characterized by prioritizing their social mission over their economic objectives, despite the tension that can arise between meeting social demands and making profits (Mair and Marti, 2006). They have...

... entrepreneurship Social impact Social business The phenomenon of socially oriented entrepreneurship has become a topic of growing attention in recent years (Dionísio, 2018 ; Latif and Ali, 2020 ; Gupta et al., 2020). There is an increasing number of businesses (Barboza et al., 2017...

...Artur Steiner; Simon Teasdale Purpose This paper aims to explore how nascent social businesses move beyond the incubation phase and it develops understanding of how early-stage social businesses access finance to achieve growth. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory and inductive study...