This thesis attempts to provide a comprehensive list of factors that explain success in social entrepreneurship. In doing so, it defines success for social ventures to consist of three parts: 1) creating social impact, 2) ensuring implementation and survival, and 3) having the capacity to grow,...

This dissertation is one of the earliest to systematically apply and empirically test the resource-based view (RBV) in the context of nascent social ventures in a large scale study. Social ventures are entrepreneurial ventures organized as nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations whose...

This paper looks at the under-researched area of assessing organisational green performance and its drivers from the consumer’s point of view. Drawing on the green literature, a model is advanced in which certain environmental attitudes held by consumers drive or restrain the performance...