David M. Townsend

The Emergence of Dual-Identity Social Entrepreneurship: Its Boundaries and Limitations

Abstract This paper delineates the conceptual domain of dual-identity social entrepreneurship (DISE) and grounds its components theoretically. DISE entails the creation of ventures whose business model is designed by individual founders to create demonstrable and continued public value from strategic actions while simultaneously creating continued economic value. Because the growing interest in social entrepreneurship spans academic areas, boundaries are established among DISE and four related areas: i.e. conventional entrepreneurship, non-governmental organizations which engage in economic transactions, individual social activism, and corporate social performance. This paper proposes key research questions, discusses the conceptualizations theoretical implications and provides a research agenda.

Bringing It All Back Home: Corporate Venturing and Renewal through Spin-ins:

More often than not, corporate acquisitions are expensive and difficult, especially those transacted for the purpose of advancing the aims of corporate entrepreneurship (CE). Motivated by frequent, high-cost failures, firms are experimenting with novel organizational structures and fresh approaches to acquisition-driven CE. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of corporate spin-ins—acquisitions in which the acquired company is founded by former employees of the acquiring firm—in resolving key challenges of CE-motivated acquisitions Using a matched pairwise dataset of spin-in and non-spin-in acquisitions, we discover that spin-ins generate superior outcomes, positioning them as a high-potential facet of CE portfolios.

Re-Imagining Rural Entrepreneurship: Towards a Multi-Paradigm Research Agenda

The evolving face and function of rural entrepreneurship has out-stripped existing efforts to define, describe and predict important entrepreneurial phenomena in the domain. This is problematic for...