The multi-leveled processes taking place in crowdfunding, when tapping a large heterogeneous crowd for resources, and the often fundamentally different intentions of individual crowd members in the case of highly desirable social ventures with little prospect for economic gains, may lead to a...

The main goal of social entrepreneurship is to achieve organisational performance while facing various challenges, including a lack of financial support and difficulty harmonizing commercial activities with social missions. The authors suggest that government institutional support can revitalize...

Over the last decade, the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has experienced impressive growth in different countries. Using a market- based approach, Social Enterprises (SEs) incorporate commercial forms of revenue generation (creating economic value) as a vehicle to accomplish their social...

The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...

The economic success and innovative outcomes of the high performing East Asian countries, albeit often characterized as low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that...

The last two decades represented the scarce discussion of the organizational social capital (SC) and its impact upon the social enterprises’ sustainable performance in the developing economies like Pakistan. The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact of social capital on...