Purpose Social entrepreneurs (SEs) often face various challenges whereby they rely on the
support of others to realize their objectives. In this context, ecosystem thinking is very helpful …

Research summary Enterprises in low‐resource contexts often rely on bricolage (ie, making
do by applying resources at hand to new problems). However, bricolage has traditionally …

This article reviews existing literature on scaling social impact and proposes a new
theoretical framework to understand the ecosystem of scaling social impact beyond …

Despite efforts to address societal ills, social enterprises face challenges in increasing their
impact. Drawing from the RBV, we argue that a social enterprise's scale of social impact …

This paper examines the process through which ventures scale their social impact in base-of-
the-pyramid communities. A careful review of extant literature reveals two distinct modes of …

Social enterprises (SEs) are firms that employ a business-oriented approach to tackling
social problems. This paper quantitatively analyzes the importance of SEs' business models …

Nonprofit organizations addressing societal challenges such as hunger, poverty, and racial
inequities want to grow the impact of their promising solutions to these problems—scaling …

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

While the literature on social scaling adopts a linear perspective in which a social enterprise
first tests and validates its business model and then scales it up to other settings, this study …

Social entrepreneurship differs from traditional forms of entrepreneurship in that the primary
goal of the social venture is to address social problems and needs that are as yet unmet …