TY - JOUR A1 - Ebrahim, Alnoor A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations JF - Research in Organizational Behavior N2 - We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two ideal types of such hybrids, differentiated and integrated, and we conceptualize two key challenges of governance they face: accountability for dual performance objectives and accountability to multiple principal stakeholders. We revisit the potential and limitations of recently introduced legal forms to address these challenges. We then theorize about the importance of organizational governance and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational hybridity in social enterprises. Finally, we discuss future research directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. KW - Governance KW - Accountability KW - Social enterprise KW - Nonprofit KW - Organizational hybridity Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2014.09.001 VL - 34 SP - 81 EP - 100 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Cárdenas, Julian T1 - Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models JF - Journal of Business Ethics N2 - In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a global sample of 200 social entrepreneurial organizations to develop a typology of social entrepreneuring models. This typology is based on four possible forms of capital that can be leveraged: social, economic, human, and political. Furthermore, our findings reveal that these four social entrepreneuring models are associated with distinct logics of justification that may explain different ways of organizing across organizations. This study contributes to understanding social entrepreneurship as a field of practice and it describes avenues for theorizing about the different organizational approaches adopted by social entrepreneurs. KW - Entrepreneuring KW - Organizational field KW - Social change KW - Social entrepreneurship Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1414-3 N1 - Available as e-publication in your Hertie Library. Als elektronische Ausgabe in der Hertie Bibliothek verfügbar. VL - 111 IS - 3 SP - 353 EP - 373 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Dacin, M. Tina ED - Lounsbury, Michael T1 - The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across geographic communities T2 - Communities and Organizations N2 - Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim of achieving social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local “face of poverty” in different communities and how this relates to variations in the emergence and strategic orientations of SEOs. We develop a model of the productive opportunity space for SEOs as a basis of and an inspiration for further scholarly inquiry. KW - Social entrepreneurship KW - Civil Society or Community Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-78052-284-5 SN - 0733-558X VL - 33 SP - 333 EP - 363 ET - Research in the Sociology of Organizations ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rimac, Tomislav A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Battilana, Julie T1 - When Social Entrepreneurs Act as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Sekem. T2 - Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations (Organization and Management) KW - Social Change KW - Social Entrepreneurship KW - Institutional Entrepreneurship Y1 - 2012 SN - 0415878861, 978-0415878869 SP - 71 EP - 89 PB - Routledge ER - TY - GEN A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Kimsey, Marissa A1 - Zogbi, Priscilla A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale N2 - Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in 1991 to try to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After introducing the seeds of this approach, the case examines the evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption. Y1 - 2018 PB - Harvard Business School Case Study ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Butler, Brittany A1 - Kimsey, Marissa A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Marquis, Christopher A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - George, Gerard ED - Baker, Ted ED - Tracey, Paul ED - Joshi, Havovi T1 - Problem, person, and pathway: A framework for social innovators BT - The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation T2 - Handbook of Inclusive Innovation Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781786436009 SN - 9781786436016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436016 SP - 61 EP - 74 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER -