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Abstract
This article develops a Hayekian perspective on social franchising that distinguishes between the end-connected logic of the small group and the rule-connected logic of the big group. Our key claim is that mission-driven social entrepreneurs often draw on the small-group logic when starting their social ventures and then face difficulties when the process of scaling shifts their operations toward a big-group logic. In this situation, social franchising offers a strategy to replicate the small group despite systemwide scaling, to mobilize decentrally accessible social capital, and to reduce agency costs through mechanisms of self-selection and self-monitoring. By employing a Hayekian perspective, we are thus able to offer an explanation as to why social franchising is a suitable scaling strategy for some social entrepreneurship organizations and not for others. We illustrate our work using the Ashoka Fellow Wellcome.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 502-522 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 8 Jan 2013 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2014 |
Keywords
- Social franchising
- social entrepreneurship
- Hayek
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3rd EMES Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Social Economy and Social Enterprise
Anica Zeyen (Speaker)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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“Zwischen Groß- & Kleingruppenlogik: Social Franchising aus einer Hayekianischen Perspektive)”
Anica Zeyen (Speaker)
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