Imprinting Perspective on the Sustainability of Commitments to Competing Institutional Logics of Social Enterprises
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This study examines the conditions under which dual commitments to competing institutional logics, particularly a social vs. a commercial logic, are both important to organizational functioning for social enterprises. Using hand-collected data from a survey of 190 social enterprises in South Korea, we identify a reliable measure for the sustainability of competing logics. We also identify the factors associated with variation in a social enterprise’s capacity to sustain dual commitments to competing institutional logics. Using an imprinting perspective, we show that a social entrepreneur’s non-profit experience has a curvilinear effect on the sustainability of competing logics. Moreover, the non-linear effect of a social entrepreneur’s non-profit experience on the sustainability of competing logics is less profound in social enterprises with a highly ambivalent founder.
Source: Sustainability
DOI: 10.3390/su13042014
Authors: Tae Jun Bae, James O. Fiet
Institutions: Hanyang University, University of Louisville
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,052
OpenAlex ID: W3132394649