Experience derived from having worked in the same industry before starting a new business provides the founder of social enterprises with valuable resources, such as networks, base of stakeholders and the ability to seek new opportunities.
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Resourced-Based View and Internationalisation of Social Enterprises: An Exploratory Study
José Carlos M. R. Pinho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Isabel Maria Macedo (University of Minho, Portugal), and Marcelo Dionisio (Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4387-0.ch003
Abstract
Due to recent economic, social, and public health drawbacks, social enterprises (SEs) play an increasingly important role in addressing a wide range of social problems, as part of their market-based approach to social value creation. Since SEs operate mainly in challenging contexts characterized by scarce resource environments, they need to develop strategies in order to effectively accomplish their missions while achieving organisational sustainability. Often, SEs expand their activity overseas within an internationalisation strategy. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of resources in the internationalisation strategy undertaken by SEs. The study applies the resource-based view (RBV) to understand how the type and nature of resources may influence the international activities pursued by these organisations. The findings highlight the important role of different key resources in the growth, sustainability and internationalisation of SEs.