TY - JOUR
T1 - Politicising Social Entrepreneurship
T2 - Three Social Entrepreneurial Rationalities Toward Social Change
AU - Barinaga, Ester
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Scholars in the field of social entrepreneurship are challenging the researchers to produce empirical research on the social dimension of this phenomenon. Drawing on Foucault, this paper proposes the notion of ‘social entrepreneurial rationality’ to capture the social dimension of social entrepreneurship. The article builds on a comparative case study of three social ventures, each adopting a different rationality to bring about change in regards to the organisation of their societies along ethnicity. The first introduces micro-finance in Sweden to address long-term unemployed women of immigrant background; the second is an immigrant youth association working to promote the group's values; the third is the collective production of public art in traditional immigrant suburbs of Stockholm. Whereas the first uses an economic rationality to address ethnic inequality, the second and the third make use of discursive and community rationality, respectively. This challenges social entrepreneurship scholars to acknowledge the political mileage of social entrepreneurial rationalities toward social change.
AB - Scholars in the field of social entrepreneurship are challenging the researchers to produce empirical research on the social dimension of this phenomenon. Drawing on Foucault, this paper proposes the notion of ‘social entrepreneurial rationality’ to capture the social dimension of social entrepreneurship. The article builds on a comparative case study of three social ventures, each adopting a different rationality to bring about change in regards to the organisation of their societies along ethnicity. The first introduces micro-finance in Sweden to address long-term unemployed women of immigrant background; the second is an immigrant youth association working to promote the group's values; the third is the collective production of public art in traditional immigrant suburbs of Stockholm. Whereas the first uses an economic rationality to address ethnic inequality, the second and the third make use of discursive and community rationality, respectively. This challenges social entrepreneurship scholars to acknowledge the political mileage of social entrepreneurial rationalities toward social change.
KW - Social Entrepreneurial Rationality
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Economic Rationality
KW - Discursive Rationality
KW - Community Rationality
KW - Comparative Study
U2 - 10.1080/19420676.2013.823100
DO - 10.1080/19420676.2013.823100
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1942-0676
VL - 4
SP - 347
EP - 372
JO - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
JF - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
IS - 3
ER -