Resource Tension Areas

Goal of the chapter: Social businesses differ from profit enterprises by the phenomenon of a high density of socially embedded resources. These resources are not owned by the social business but by the social investors or the social network. How to allocate resources that are not available to the ex...

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1. Verfasser: Jäger, U. P
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Goal of the chapter: Social businesses differ from profit enterprises by the phenomenon of a high density of socially embedded resources. These resources are not owned by the social business but by the social investors or the social network. How to allocate resources that are not available to the executives? This chapter concentrates on this challenge at the interface of markets and civil societies. It asks the question: What are resource tensions between social mission and market rationale? Reading the chapter, the readerlearns about the concept of embeddedness and path dependency,about the tension concerning resources andabout possible practices of balancing in the area of tension.
DOI:10.1057/9780230292420_6