Bricolage, Collaboration and Mission Drift in Social Enterprises
Journal article
Cheung, C, Kwong, C and Tasavori, M (2017). Bricolage, Collaboration and Mission Drift in Social Enterprises. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2017.1328904
Authors | Cheung, C, Kwong, C and Tasavori, M |
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Abstract | Increasingly, social enterprises are relying on collaboration with partners to tackle the resource constraints that they face. In this research we focus on the strategy of bricolage to explore whether and how the different types of partner becoming involved may impact on the mission of social enterprises. Grounded in resource dependency and transaction cost theories, we explore how power asymmetry and the nature of involvement may impact on the outcomes of bricolage. Our findings demonstrate that in the more integrated relationships with high power asymmetry, more instances of mission drift might be observed compared to when social enterprises develop the more collaborative or complementary nature of partnerships with symmetrical power dependency, or when the partners’ involvements are mainly transaction-based. |
Keywords | 1503 Business And Management; Business & Management |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Entrepreneurship and Regional Development |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0898-5626 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2017.1328904 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08985626.2017.1328904?journalCode=tepn20 |
Publication dates | |
14 Aug 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Jan 2017 |
Accepted | 17 Dec 2016 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File description Journal Article File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/86y3q
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License: CC BY 4.0 | ||
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