Despite the growing interest in social businesses, knowledge about and theorization of how these businesses change social and institutional conditions in emerging economies is scarce. This research investigates how an innovative social business model acts on institutional voids and creates social value for deprived communities. Building on insights from the literature and a longitudinal case study of a local, grassroots social business venture operating in Brazilian slums and shantytowns (favelas), we uncover and theorize eight mechanisms by which an innovative social business model brings about institutional change and creates social value. These mechanisms are: orchestrating local business networks, developing local business networks, upgrading and building cognitive capacity, legitimizing, assigning multiple roles, empowering, building a positive territorial identity (territorial de-stigmatization), and boundary spanning. Our findings have important implications for social entrepreneurs and organizations supporting social business ventures in transforming economies.

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制度空白与商业模式创新：草根社会企业如何推动新兴经济体中的贫困社区

尽管人们对社会企业的兴趣与日俱增，但关于这些企业如何改变新兴经济体的社会和制度条件的知识和理论却很少。这项研究调查了创新的社会商业模式如何作用于制度空白并为贫困社区创造社会价值。基于文献的见解和对在巴西贫民窟和棚户区（贫民窟）运营的当地草根社会企业企业的纵向案例研究，我们揭示并理论化了创新社会企业模式带来制度变革和创造社会价值的八种机制. 这些机制是：协调本地业务网络、发展本地业务网络、升级和建立认知能力、合法化、分配多个角色、授权、建立积极的领土认同（领土去污名化）和边界跨越。我们的研究结果对社会企业家和支持社会企业在经济转型中的组织具有重要意义。