Abstract

Social entrepreneurs face the challenge of resource constraints that affect their ability to scale social impact and expand in various geographical locations. In order to overcome resource barriers and to scale up social impact, social ventures deploy resources currently owned, and form distinct partnerships to acquire new resources, and hence implement unique strategies to achieve a pre-determined social impact. Through the lens of the Resource Based View (RBV) and Resource Dependency Theory (RDT), this paper explores the current discourse on social venture growth and scale-up strategies, and employs a grounded theory approach on 20 social ventures in Egypt to further develop a matrix for social ventures’ scale-up strategies based on resources’ availability. In addition, the paper introduces a typology of social impact scaling strategies given social ventures’ social impact objectives.

摘要

社会企业家面临资源限制的挑战，这会影响他们扩大社会影响和在不同地理位置扩展的能力。为了克服资源障碍，扩大社会影响，社会企业将现有资源进行配置，形成独特的合作伙伴关系，获取新资源，从而实施独特的战略，实现预定的社会影响。本文通过基于资源的观点 (RBV) 和资源依赖理论 (RDT) 的视角，探讨了当前关于社会风险增长和规模化战略的论述，并采用扎根理论方法对埃及的 20 个社会风险进行了进一步发展。基于资源可用性的社会企业扩大战略矩阵。此外，