Social Enterprise Journal: Volume 18 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Complexity as a model for social innovation and social entrepreneurship: is there order in the chaos?

Max French, Katharine McGowan, Mary Lee Rhodes, Sharon Zivkovic

Social innovation and temporary innovations systems (TIS): insights from nature-based solutions in Europe

Mary Lee Rhodes, Siobhan McQuaid, Gemma Donnelly-Cox

The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of the complexity-based temporary innovation system (TIS) framework to social innovation and examine the extent to which…

Engaging complexity theory to explore partnership structures: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi as a structural attractor for social innovation in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Billie Lythberg, Jamie Newth, Christine Woods

The purpose of this paper is to explore how a complexity informed understanding of Indigenous–settler relationships helps people to better understand Indigenous social innovation…

Digital elixir? The Aakash tablet as a social innovation in information and communication technology for development (ICT4D)

John Abraham, Sean Geobey

The Aakash tablet was developed as a social innovation (SI) to transform India’s higher education sector. This paper aims to explain the failure of the Aakash tablet beyond the…

“Harmful to the commonality”: the Luddites, the distributional effects of systems change and the challenge of building a just society

Katharine McGowan, Sean Geobey

When complex social-ecological systems collapse and transform, the possible outcomes of this transformation are not set in stone. This paper aims to explore the role of social…

The hybrid nature of social enterprises how does it affect their revenue sources?

Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Simone Poledrini, Dennis R. Young, Marthe Nyssens

This paper aims to examine the applicability of the benefits theory of nonprofit finance to an international sample of social enterprises (SEs).

Social entrepreneurial sustainability during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mohammed Faiz Kamaludin, Jesrina Ann Xavier, Muslim Amin

The purpose of this paper is to explore and understand the needed entrepreneurial actions required to attain sustainability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social entrepreneurial…

Delineating novel aspects of social enterprise theory

Patrick J. Murphy, Artem Kornetskyy, Joseph T. Nixon

Social enterprises are defined in practice in terms of one operational model generating measurable value in more than one of the economic, social and natural/ecological value…

The mediating role of entrepreneurial intention between creativity and social innovation tendency

Jorge Cunha, Carla Ferreira, Madalena Araújo, Manuel Lopes Nunes

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between creativity, entrepreneurial intention and social innovation tendency within academic community members (namely, students…