Title: Social Enterprise as an Institutional Innovation in China: Challenges to Institutional Isomorphism
Abstract:This paper examines the development of social enterprises in China to better understand social enterprise as institutional innovation and challenge aspects of the theory of institutional isomorphism. ...This paper examines the development of social enterprises in China to better understand social enterprise as institutional innovation and challenge aspects of the theory of institutional isomorphism. Drawing on 29 in-person surveys of nonprofit social enterprises in Shanghai, this paper shows that, while institutional isomorphic pressures are present as an important mechanism that assists in the legitimization of social enterprises, institutional innovation in the broader organizational field is occurring. In the process, it challenges several assumptions inherent in DiMaggio and Powell’s (1983) theory of institutional isomorphism and opens new insights for needed social innovation on an organizational level in developing countries.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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