Malin Gawell

Building Social Capital For Social Entrepreneurship

By entrepreneurial combinations of voluntary resources, project means from public and private sources, commissions on contracts and other ways of financing, the youth house Fryshuset, with a great ...

Building Social Capital for Social Entrepreneurship

By entrepreneurial combinations of voluntary resources, project means from public and private sources, commissions on contracts and other ways of financing, the youth house Fryshuset, with a great ...

Social entrepreneurship – innovative challengers or adjustable followers?

Purpose – Social entrepreneurial initiatives are often ascribed innovative roles for the public good. However, it is also argued that the same initiatives react to conditions in different contexts as well as to local or global trends. But, what roles and values are brought into practice by initiatives today and how can these be conceptualised as innovative? The aim of this paper is to empirically describe and analyse social entrepreneurship initiatives and contribute to the understanding of their role in the development of society.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a framework focusing on entrepreneurial dynamics, organisations and institutions. Empirically, it is grounded in four studies of social enterprises and their entrepreneurial initiatives in Sweden. Findings – The results reveal an intricate interplay between innovative challenges and institutional inertia as well as a combined role for social entrepreneurship initiatives in which innovative aspects can be more or less extensive....

Social entrepreneurship and the negotiation of emerging social enterprise markets

Purpose – Sweden, and many other countries, has, during the twentieth century, developed a rather large public sector providing social welfare services to citizens. Only to a small extent were private for- or nonprofit organizations providing these services. During the last decade we have seen a shift towards more services being provided by private for- and nonprofit actors. This shift means that roles are reconsidered, renegotiated and reconstructed. In this debate social entrepreneurship, social enterprises and innovation are emphasized. The aim of this paper is to problematize and analyze how social entrepreneurship and social enterprises relate to public sector management and governance. Design/methodology/approach – In the paper theories on (social) entrepreneurship and innovation is combined with theories focusing on welfare structures. Empirically, the analysis is based on the current policy development in Sweden and five social entrepreneurship initiatives. Findings – The analysis discloses the re...

Soci(et)al Entrepreneurship and Different Forms of Social Enterprise

For many years there has been discussion about the definitions and issues at stake in entrepreneurship research. Adding a social or societal element does little to clarify matters, even in the emerging field of social or societal entrepreneurship and social enterprises. In this chapter, the use of these conceptualizations in theory as well as practice, is elaborated on primarily in a Swedish setting; however, as we will see, similar expressions are just as relevant in other countries. The aim here is to chart this emerging field with an eye to the critical discussions of tensions and priorities.

Social Entrepreneurship, Gendered Entrepreneurship

In recent decades, the gendered dimensions of management, organizations, and traditional entrepreneurship have been disclosed by research. The expanding practice of social entrepreneurship raises questions about whether similar patterns are reconstructed there too, or whether gender is constructed differently in this field. In this chapter, the results from a number of studies are combined with a problematization of social entrepreneurship’s specific context—its close connection with how welfare services are organized, including both the public sector and the third sector—to address questions about gender. There are challenges in the shape of the complexity of the issues and a lack of sufficient data, which means it is as much an exploration as an analysis of such practices, but even so it is possible to indicate the gender systems and gender order in the emerging field of social entrepreneurship.

Sweden: Tracing Social Enterprise Across Different (Social) Spheres : The Dynamic Interplay Among Institutions, Values, and Individual Engagement

Sweden: Tracing Social Enterprise Across Different (Social) Spheres : The Dynamic Interplay Among Institutions, Values, and Individual Engagement