Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-2015
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Department
Entrepreneurship
Degree Program
Entrepreneurship, PhD
Committee Chair
Fiet, James
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Lucas, Kristen
Committee Member
Lucas, Kristen
Committee Member
Manikas, Andrew
Committee Member
Shepherd, Dean
Subject
Organizational sociology; Associations, institutions, etc.--Philosophy; Associations, institutions, etc.--Psychological aspects
Abstract
Social enterprises have recently been recognized as organizations located in the field where two competing institutional logics co-exist preeminently. My dissertation attempts to examine the conditions under which the centrality of competing institutional logics, referring to the degree to which two competing institutional logics are both important to organizational functioning, is higher or lower in social enterprises. Using hand-collected data from the survey of 190 social enterprises in South Korea, this dissertation not only presents a validated and reliable measure for the centrality of competing logics, but also identifies the factors associated with variation in a social enterprise’s centrality of competing logics. Building on the perspective of heterogeneity in intra-stakeholder group, the Study 1 reveals that the heterogeneity within stakeholders can play a role in shaping the degree of centrality of competing logics. Specifically, ethical investors within investor stakeholders and cross-workers within employee stakeholder may enhance the centrality of competing logics. Drawing on imprinting perspective, Study 2 shows that there is the curvilinear effect of social entrepreneurs’ non-profit experience on the centrality of competing logics. Social entrepreneurs’ non-profit experience has a positive influence on the centrality of competing logics until reaching a certain point, beyond which that point is likely to be negative. Moreover, the effect of social entrepreneurs’ non-profit experience on the centrality of competing logics is less profound in the social enterprises with a highly ambivalent founder. This dissertation contributes to connect distinct research areas together, which are: (1) social entrepreneurship, (2) institutional logics, (3) stakeholder theory, and (4) imprinting perspective.
Recommended Citation
Bae, Tae Jun, "An investigation of the centrality of competing institutional logics for social enterprises." (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2239.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2239
