A typology of social entrepreneuring models continued : empirical evidence from South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Bignotti, Alex
dc.contributor.author Myres, K
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-23T10:45:18Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-23T10:45:18Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description The present study was based on data from a research project led by the GIBS Entrepreneurship Development Academy at the University of Pretoria, in academic partnership with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, with funding from the Government of Flanders and the SAB Foundation. en_US
dc.description.abstract There have been calls in social entrepreneurship research to move beyond conceptual arguments and to ground definitions and conceptualizations of this field in empirical research, especially pertaining to the developing world. Owing to the socially embedded nature of social enterprises, the context in which social enterprises originate is a key determinant of their modus operandi. In South Africa, a context fraught with social ills, the lack of clarity on the nature and form of social enterprises constrains research and policy formulation. Using a survey methodology, we collected data from a sample of 453 social enterprises on domains of social entrepreneuring identified in previous studies and performed a cluster analysis to identify different types of social entrepreneuring models. The findings point to the existence of two main types of social entrepreneuring models in South Africa: beneficiary-centric entrepreneurial nonprofits and customer-centric social businesses. This paper contributes a more contextual understanding of social entrepreneuring models in South Africa. By showing that social enterprises in South Africa are partly unique to their context, this paper underscores the theoretical and empirical importance of the context in which social enterprises originate and operate when testing the universal validity of social entrepreneuring models. en_US
dc.description.department Business Management en_US
dc.description.department Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) en_US
dc.description.librarian hj2023 en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rajm20 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Alex Bignotti & Kerrin Myres (2022) A typology of social entrepreneuring models continued: Empirical evidence from South Africa, Africa Journal of Management, 8:3, 324-346, DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071576. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2332-2373 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2332-2381 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071576
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89793
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group) en_US
dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). en_US
dc.subject Social enterprises en_US
dc.subject Social entrepreneuring models en_US
dc.subject Typology en_US
dc.subject Cluster analysis en_US
dc.subject South Africa (SA) en_US
dc.title A typology of social entrepreneuring models continued : empirical evidence from South Africa en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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