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- Title
Social Entrepreneurship as a Performance Landscape: The Case of 'Front Line.'.
- Authors
Rhodes, Mary Lee; Donnelly-Cox, Gemma
- Abstract
In this paper we explore how the complexity theory concepts may be applied to social entrepreneurship to generate new insights for theory and practice, along with some of the challenges that social entrepreneurship presents for complexity theorists. The first part of the paper deals with issues in the development of theories of social entrepreneurship and the case of 'Front Line' as an example of the phenomenon. The second part of the paper analyzes the case of Front Line as an 'agent' within the complex system of Human Rights NGOs using a performance landscape framework (Siggelkow & Levinthal, 2003) to draw out the implications for organizational complexity theory, while also identifying insights into the nature and dynamics of social entrepreneurship. We conclude that the performance landscape model, along with concepts from Complexity Leadership Theory (Uhl-Bien et al., 2007) could provide a solid theoretical basis for progressing research into social entrepreneurship, and we highlight future directions that this approach might take.
- Publication
Emergence: Complexity & Organization, 2008, Vol 10, Issue 3, p35
- ISSN
1521-3250
- Publication type
Academic Journal