Profits and purpose: Organizational tensions in social enterprises

IF 1 Q4 MANAGEMENT
Intangible Capital Pub Date : 2018-10-29 DOI:10.3926/IC.1208
Mario Vázquez-Maguirre, Luis Portales
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Abstract

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the way in which three indigenous social enterprises from Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, solve the paradox of simultaneously producing social and economic value, which creates organizational tensions.Design/methodology/approach: This research follows a qualitative method based on a case study research strategy. Three different data collection techniques are applied: Analysis of internal reports, direct observation, and semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholder, mainly employees and managers.Findings: Indigenous social enterprises deal with organizational tensions by adopting different organizational structures and privileging one dimension over the other (social or economic) in decision making Social implications. Indigenous social enterprises generate quality of life and reduce historical exclusion patterns by strengthening local economy dynamics through social innovation.Originality/value: Social innovations, appreciated in different organizational structures, contribute to alleviate the tension that arises from managing entities with double purpose. Also, this research provides evidence of how marginalized groups can overcome exclusion and poverty conditions by creating indigenous social enterprises.
利润与目的:社会企业的组织张力
目的:本文旨在探讨来自危地马拉、墨西哥和秘鲁的三家本土社会企业如何解决同时产生社会和经济价值的悖论,这种悖论造成了组织紧张。设计/方法论/方法:本研究采用基于案例研究策略的定性方法。采用了三种不同的数据收集技术:内部报告分析、直接观察和与相关利益相关者(主要是员工和经理)的半结构化访谈。研究发现:土著社会企业通过采用不同的组织结构和在决策中优先考虑一个维度而不是另一个维度(社会或经济)来处理组织紧张关系。本土社会企业通过社会创新加强地方经济活力,从而提高生活质量,减少历史上的排斥模式。原创性/价值:在不同的组织结构中受到重视的社会创新有助于缓解因双重目的管理实体而产生的紧张关系。此外,本研究还提供了边缘化群体如何通过创建本土社会企业来克服排斥和贫困状况的证据。
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Intangible Capital
Intangible Capital MANAGEMENT-
CiteScore
1.50
自引率
16.70%
发文量
21
审稿时长
33 weeks
期刊介绍: The aim of Intangible Capital is to publish theoretical and empirical articles that contribute to contrast, extend and build theories that contribute to advance our understanding of phenomena related with management, and the management of intangibles, in organizations, from the perspectives of strategic management, human resource management, psychology, education, IT, supply chain management and accounting. The scientific research in management is grounded on theories developed from perspectives taken from a diversity of social sciences. Intangible Capital is open to publish articles that, from sociology, psychology, economics and industrial organization contribute to the scientific development of management and organizational science. Intangible Capital publishes scholar articles that contribute to contrast existing theories, or to build new theoretical approaches. The contributions can adopt confirmatory (quantitative) or explanatory (mainly qualitative) methodological approaches. Theoretical essays that enhance the building or extension of theoretical approaches are also welcome. Intangible Capital selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. Intangible Capital publishes three regular issues per year following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Intangible Capital defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. Intangible Capital publishes articles in English, Spanish and Catalan.
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