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About being entrepreneurial in challenging environments – theorizing on the social enterprise behavior in Poland
Abstract
Entrepreneurial behaviors in challenging institutional environments have been widely investigated in the literature. One of the characteristics of these environments is resource scarcity. This is particularly valid in the context of social entrepreneurship. The aim of this paper is to identify entrepreneurial behaviors in social entrepreneurship and what is happening behind these processes in the context of transition country, against the backdrop of weak institutions in Poland. We use a purposive sample of 5 social cooperatives, and report the data from several in-depth interviews with their representatives as well as observation in the cooperatives too.We have attempted to widen the existing categories on entrepreneurial behavior namely boundary blurring and diversification, and discuss them in social entrepreneurship context.
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- Category:
- Conference activity
- Type:
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Title of issue:
- 15th EURAM Annual Conference strony 1 - 30
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Bibliographic description:
- Starnawska M.: About being entrepreneurial in challenging environments – theorizing on the social enterprise behavior in Poland// 15th EURAM Annual Conference / Warsaw, Poland: European Academy of Management, 2015, s.1-30
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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