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Title
Social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.462209 |
Date
2015 |
Author(s)
M. Rivera-Santos; D. Holt; D. Littlewood; A. Kolk |
Abstract
Responding to calls for a better understanding of the relationship between social enterprises and their environments, this article focuses on contextual influences on social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four predominantly African contextual dimensions, i.e., acute poverty, informality, colonial history, and ethnic group identity, and explore their influence on the way social ventures perceive themselves and on their choice of activities. Our empirical study of 384 social enterprises from 19 sub-Saharan African countries suggests that ethnic group identity and high poverty levels influence both self-perception and activity choices, while the country's colonial history only influences self-perception and informality has no significant influence on either. These findings point to the need to consider both self-perception and the choice of activities in defining social entrepreneurship. Our study also highlights the importance of African contextual dimensions for understanding social entrepreneurship, and underlines the added value of incorporating insights from African data into management research more broadly. |
Language
en |
Relation
10.5465/amp.2013.0128 |
Type of publication
article |
Source
The Academy of Management Perspectives (15589080) vol.29 (2015) nr.1 p.72-91 |
Rights
It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content licence (like Creative Commons). |
Repository
Amsterdam - UvaPub, University of Amsterdam
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