Links & resources

Verb – operates massive entrepreneurship competitions that accelerate early-stage social entrepreneurs around the world by connecting them to the money and resources they need to grow.

Influential social innovation papers in the major management journals

Ashforth, B.E. and Reingen, P.H. (2014) “Functions of dysfunction: managing the dynamics of an organizational duality in a natural food cooperative”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 59: 474-516 (DOI:10.1177/0001839214537811)

Battilana, J. and Dorado, S. (2010) “Building sustainable hybrid organizations: the case of commercial microfinance organizations.” Academy of Management Journal, 53(6): 1419-1440

Besharov, M.L. (2014) “The relational ecology of identification: How organizational identification emerges when individuals hold divergent values.” Academy of Management Journal (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0761)

Hwang, H. and Powell, W. (2009) “The rationalization of charity: the influences of professionalism in the nonprofit sector.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(2): 268-98

Kistruck, G. and Smith, B. (2013) “Mitigating principal-agent problems in Base-of-the-Pyramid markets: an identity spillover perspective.” Academy of Management Journal, 56: 659-682 (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0336)

Mair J., Martí I., and Ventresca M. (2012) “Building inclusive markets in rural Bangladesh: how intermediaries work institutional voids.” Academy of Management Journal, 55(4): 819-850.

Miller, T.I., Grimes, M.G., Mcmullen, J.S. and Vogus, T.I. (2012) “Venturing for others with heart and head: how compassion encourages social entrepreneurship.” Academy of Management Review, 37(4): 616-640

Nicholls, A. (2009) “We do good things don’t we? blended value accounting in social entrepreneurship.” Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34(6-7): 755-769

Pache, A.C. and Santos, F. (2013) “Inside the hybrid organization: selective coupling as a response to competing institutional logics.” Academy of Management Journal, 56(4): 972-1001 (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0405)

Tracey, P., Phillips, N. and Jarvis, O. (2011) “Bridging institutional entrepreneurship and the creation of new organizational forms: a multilevel model.” Organization Science, 22(1): 60-80 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0522)