Whose failure? Learning from the financial collapse of a social enterprise in 'Steeltown'
Whose failure? Learning from the financial collapse of a social enterprise in 'Steeltown'
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谁的失败？
DOI：
10.1332/204080512x649333
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
S. Teasdale
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文献类型：
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作者：
D. Scott;S. Teasdale
摘要社会企业文学以良好实践和英雄成就的故事为主。失败尚未得到广泛研究。有限的政策和实践文献将失败视为良好做法的另一面。对失败的解释几乎完全是个人主义的，与管理不善有关。然而，组织研究文献表明，如果不参考组织运作的更广泛的环境，就无法理解失败。本文是基于一个为期九年的深入案例研究的组织，以前的特点是在政策和从业者的文学作为一个例子，良好的做法和英雄的成就。我们试图通过研究组织与其更广泛的环境之间的相互作用来解释其“失败”。我们表明，简单的个人主义的解释是不足以理解社会企业的失败和概述的学术理解社会企业的影响。
Abstract The social enterprise literature is dominated by stories of good practice and heroic achievement. Failure has not been widely researched. The limited policy and practice literature presents failure as the flipside of good practice. Explanations for failure are almost wholly individualistic, and related to poor governance. However, organisational studies literature shows that failure cannot be understood without reference to the wider environment within which organisations operate. This paper is based on a nine year in depth case-study of an organisation previously characterised in the policy and practitioner literature as an example of good practice and heroic achievement. We seek to explain its ‘failure’ through studying the interaction between the organisation and its wider environment. We show that simple individualistic explanations are not sufficient by which to understand social enterprise failure and outline the implications for academic understanding of social enterprise.