The authors work closely with academia and governmental organizations in the UK and abroad to develop new, innovative schemes for social impact investing. Such schemes include considerations for public-private collaborations, legislative actions, and especially in this case, for the leveraged...

<title>Abstract</title> Across the world, a new landscape of social investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10--15 years, yet there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date. This paper aims to address this important gap in social entrepreneurship research with new empirical and...

<title>Abstract</title> Social innovation will be essential for addressing today's complex social and ecological challenges. Social entrepreneurs involved in the generation and implementation of innovative endeavours have repeatedly pointed to the critical need for financial support. However, mainstream...

Over the past 10 years the sales of Fair Trade goods – particularly those carrying the Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) certification mark – have grown exponentially. Academic interest in Fair Trade has also grown significantly over the past decade with researchers...

Following Kuhn, this article conceptualizes social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre-paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology. Using approaches from neo-institutional theory, this research focuses on the microstructures of legitimation that characterize...

In 2005, the British parliament passed legislation to make available the first new legal form of incorporation in over a century: the Community Interest Company (CIC). This initiative represented an important element within a larger set of public policy measures that aimed to create a more...

Across the world, a new landscape of social investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10–15 years, yet there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date. This paper aims to address this important gap in social entrepreneurship research with new empirical and theoretical...

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the emergent reporting practices used by social entrepreneurs in terms of their institutional settings and strategic objectives. These reporting practices not only account for financial performance but also disclose more nuanced and contingent...

Purpose-The paper aims to investigate the value of a network perspective in enhancing the understanding of the business to consumer marketing of high-involvement product categories. This is achieved through the analysis of the development of fair trade marketing in the UK....