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The Clash of Missions: Juxtaposing Competing Pressures in South Africa's Social Enterprises

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  • Emmanuel T. Kodzi

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Social enterprises seek resource combinations to provide some assurance of sustainability as they create social value in a defined domain of action. However, this resource-seeking mandate also constitutes a distraction that complicates the operations of any social enterprise. How do social enterprises manage the implicit duality of maintaining a commercial mission in order to achieve their social mission? Using the context of South Africa, this study examines the process trade-offs that enhance or limit social impact under the referenced duality. The study clarifies the nature of these trade-offs, as a basis for appropriating efficiency-enhancing process design in enterprises that create, but do not capture value. The author proposes a unique intersection between the logic of control and the logic of empowerment in the field of social entrepreneurship, and suggests that value chain processes be controlled to the extent that the enterprise acts as a custodian of community empowerment for its target beneficiaries.

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  • Emmanuel T. Kodzi, 2015. "The Clash of Missions: Juxtaposing Competing Pressures in South Africa's Social Enterprises," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 278-298, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsocen:v:6:y:2015:i:3:p:278-298
    DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2014.981844
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    1. Reeti Kulshrestha & Arunaditya Sahay & Subhanjan Sengupta, 2022. "Constituents and Drivers of Mission Engagement for Social Enterprise Sustainability: A Systematic Review," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 31(1), pages 90-120, March.
    2. Bacq, Sophie & Hertel, Christina & Lumpkin, G.T., 2022. "Communities at the nexus of entrepreneurship and societal impact: A cross-disciplinary literature review," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 37(5).
    3. Syrus M Islam, 2022. "Social impact scaling strategies in social enterprises: A systematic review and research agenda," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 47(2), pages 298-321, May.
    4. Dwivedi, Abhishek & Weerawardena, Jay, 2018. "Conceptualizing and operationalizing the social entrepreneurship construct," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 32-40.

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