Pronouncement of Embedded Agency in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship

• Authors: Starnawska Marzena

Title variants

PL

Manifestacja sprawczości zakorzenionej w obszarze przedsiębiorczości społecznej

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper provides insights into how social entrepreneurship and the institutional theory framework can be combined. The author situates the social entrepreneurship phenomenon here, and embarks on the traditional structure vs agency debate from social sciences, sociology of organizations in particular. The concept of embedded agency is referred to and employed to explain the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. In this paper, the author provides key arguments concerning how the institutional theory framework can be useful in the field of social entrepreneurship research and practice. The author also discusses how the embedded agency concept is more pronounced in the social entrepreneurship context.

PL

Wykorzystując obszerną analizę kluczowych tekstów w obszarze teorii instytucjonalnej oraz obszaru badawczego przedsiębiorczości, w tym przedsiębiorczości społecznej, autorka umiejscawia zjawisko i obszar badawczy przedsiębiorczości społecznej w ramach tejże teorii. Nawiązując do debaty agencja vs struktura, znanej z nauk społecznych, przywołuje ona koncepcję sprawczości zakorzenionej i przenosi ją na grunt badań nad przedsiębiorczością społeczną. W artykule przytoczono argumenty, dlaczego ramy teorii instytucjonalnej są szczególnie użyteczne dla zjawiska i obszaru badawczego przedsiębiorczości społecznej, jak również ukazują, w jaki sposób obszar ten może być bardziej wyjaśniony dzięki perspektywie paradoksu sprawczości zakorzenionej.

Keywords

EN

institutional theory; embedded agency; social entrepreneurship

PL

przedsiębiorczość społeczna; teoria instytucjonalna; sprawczość zakorzeniona

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Problemy Zarządzania
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 1/2018 (73), t.2
• Pages: 229-239

Dates

published

2018-04-27

Contributors

author

Starnawska Marzena

• Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology

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Identifiers

ISSN

1644-9584

DOI

10.7172/1644-9584.73.14