Abstract

Our understanding of how social enterprises enable social change is still limited. Empowerment could be a valid mediating construct to explain the processes occurring between entrepreneurial practices and achievement of social goals. Based on an ethnography case study in a South African social enterprise, this study reveals the entrepreneurial practices that contribute to women’s empowerment and the power-accruing processes that provide female workers access and control over resources and a sense of individual and collective achievement that facilitates the rupture of patriarchal gender roles. This empowerment-based model contributes to explain social change processes inherent in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship.

摘要

我们对社会企业如何推动社会变革的理解仍然有限。赋权可以是一个有效的中介结构来解释创业实践和社会目标实现之间发生的过程。基于对南非一家社会企业的民族志案例研究，本研究揭示了有助于赋予女性权力的创业实践，以及为女性员工提供获取和控制资源的权力积累过程，以及促进女性职业发展的个人和集体成就感。父权制性别角色的破裂。这种基于赋权的模型有助于解释社会企业家精神现象中固有的社会变革过程。