Johanna Mair

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and/or addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: The authors examines in microcosm such institutional voids and illustrates the activities of an entrepreneurial actor in rural Bangladesh aimed at addressing them, and depicts the crafting of new institutional arrangements as an ongoing process of bricolage and unveil its political nature as well as its potentially negative consequences.

TL;DR: The term social entrepreneurship is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms, and the role of governing boards in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and maintain organizational hybridity in social enterprises.