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Drivers of social impact measurement for nascent social enterprises

In: Navigating Entrepreneurial Contexts

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  • Georgios Polychronopoulos

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Social entrepreneurship, focusing on market-based approaches to address societal challenges, has gained significant attention in recent academic discourse. Despite the critical role of social impact measurement in legitimating social enterprises’ (SEs) contributions and optimizing their operations, understanding of the innate characteristics influencing their adoption of such practices remains limited. This study, employing an imprinting lens, explores how imprinted innovativeness and social imprinting shape the adoption of social impact measurement practices in nascent SEs. Using a novel dataset of over ten thousand nascent SEs from 103 countries, we find that imprinted innovativeness positively associates with the adoption of impact measurement, whereas social imprinting has a counterintuitive negative association. This research contributes to social entrepreneurship research by introducing imprinted innovativeness, shedding light on SE hybridity tensions, and emphasizing imprinting theory’s role in impact measurement disparities.

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  • Georgios Polychronopoulos, 2024. "Drivers of social impact measurement for nascent social enterprises," Chapters, in: Navigating Entrepreneurial Contexts, chapter 9, pages 157-174, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:23859_9
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