Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs

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dc.contributor.authorStervinou, Sandrine
dc.contributor.authorBayle-Cordier, Julie
dc.contributor.authorNarvaiza Cantín, Lorea
dc.contributor.authorAragón Amonarriz, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorIturrioz Landart, Cristina
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-29T15:53:16Z
dc.date.available2025-10-29T15:53:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-10
dc.date.updated2025-10-29T15:53:16Z
dc.description.abstractEntrepreneurship research views context as central to understanding entrepreneurship as a fluid social construction. Our study answers recent call to focus on a diversity of organizational forms to deepen theorizing and to broaden the domain of what is considered entrepreneurship. Worker cooperatives are a type of social enterprise under exposed in the entrepreneurship literature. Thus, we investigate how context impacts collective social entrepreneurial processes over time by exploring how worker cooperative entrepreneurs view their contexts and their own entrepreneurial initiatives’ purposes. We introduce the term ‘participative social entrepreneurship’, which we define as ‘democratic and collaborative action, amongst both similar and diverse actors to foster positive societal change’. Findings based on a longitudinal study of worker cooperative entrepreneurs from two European territories over 2011-2020 highlight the relevance of context and purpose interplay in shaping worker cooperative entrepreneurs’ perceptions and so, the construction of participative social entrepreneurship. The study reveals that while, in theory, the worker cooperative form has a prosocial purpose naturally embedded in its democratic governance structure, social entrepreneurship in action does not always translate into voices that contest the status quo and highlights the necessity of paying attention to the factors that make participative social entrepreneurship dynamic and real.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper is part of the following research project: “Cooperatives as an employment policy instrument to address new challenges in the world of work” (CIPERMT) (file number RTI2018–097715–B–I00) and has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the State Bureau of Investigation and the European Regional Development Fund within the call for proposals for 2018 on Research and Development Projects.en
dc.identifier.citationStervinou, S., Bayle-Cordier, J., Narvaiza, L., Aragón, C., & Iturrioz, C. (2021). Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 33(9-10), 758-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1914740
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08985626.2021.1914740
dc.identifier.eissn1464-5114
dc.identifier.issn0898-5626
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4131
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.subject.otherContextual entrepreneurship
dc.subject.otherParticipative social entrepreneurship
dc.subject.otherWorker cooperatives
dc.titleExploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneursen
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage788
oaire.citation.issue9-10
oaire.citation.startPage758
oaire.citation.titleEntrepreneurship and Regional Development
oaire.citation.volume33
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