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In this paper, we apply the growing body of scholarship on entrepreneurial orientation to understanding organizational performance along social rather than financial metrics. In so doing, we contri...

This paper explores the implications of top management team (TMT) diversity and identity in fostering an organizational environment that promotes social intrapreneurship. We integrate upper echelon...

Economic forces don’t change, but the nature of competition does and has. Business has moved through a series of eras to reach the current one, which has been described as ‘post-industrial’, charac...

In the present manuscript, we develop and extend theory with respect to social intrapreneurship by examining the “how” of intrapreneurial championing. More specifically, we integrate the natural-re...

SWOT analysis is still ubiquitous in business courses, and yet it has been harshly criticized by scholars and is not used by top management consulting firms. It is atheoretical and overly simplisti...

Consultants and other professional service firms compete by bringing their knowledge resources to bear on their customers’ challenging problems. Such knowledge resources can reside in workers and/o...

Social entrepreneurs have a wider interest than traditional commercial firms, given their commitment to social improvement. Just as governments do, they may step in to facilitate research into solu...

Transaction cost economics (Williamson, 1985) has become a widely accepted theory for understanding firm boundary and governance choices in intermediate product market (IPM) transactions. TCE does ...

Uncertainty in production processes has proven to be a useful lens through which to explain the international entry mode choices of large manufacturing firms. This paper adapts that approach to sug...

This paper examines the question of whether and how systemic factors can impact the probability that an entire organizational field will collapse, using Complex Systems Theory. We develop a model for how such a collapse might occur and suggest that increasing levels of embeddedness within the organizational field allow even modest perturbations to bring down the entire system. The model is tested using a mathematical simulation, obtaining results consistent with our assertions.

This paper uses the concepts of organizational fitness and fitness landscapes to examine management challenges that arise from social entrepreneurship efforts. Organizations pursuing social entrepr...