Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the motivations of social entrepreneurs in East Africa to create a social enterprise and their identified links to successful social entrepreneurship in East Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The authors employed a qualitative method by performing...

This study aims to empirically verify whether the entrepreneurial strategic orientation of social enterprises has any effect on organizational effectiveness with the mediation of dynamic capabilities. In the consideration of social enterprises' features, strategic orientation consisted of social...

1. Introduction -- 2. Role and Characteristics of Social Enterprises (SEs) within Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) -- 3. Intellectual Capital Within Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) -- 4. Intellectual Capital and Firm Performance -- 5. Intellectual Capital: An Empirical Analysis -- 6. Discussion of...

This study explores the complementary role of acquisition/assimilation and transformation/exploitation in the absorptive capacity in the perspective of knowledge absorptive capacity. For this, depending on human capital and resource-based view, this study pays attention to the interaction effect...

This study applies human capital theory to link social entrepreneurs' characteristics and the performance of social ventures. Especially, considering the dualistic nature of social ventures, we investigate two specific human capital of entrepreneurs, such as prior social experience and prior...