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Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity

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dc.contributor.authorLechterman, Theodore
dc.contributor.authorMair, Johanna
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-24T15:41:23Z
dc.date.available2025-02-24T15:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-31
dc.description.abstractMany scholars of organizations see social enterprise as a promising approach to advancing social justice but neglect to scrutinize the normative foundations and limitations of this optimism. This article draws on Rawlsian political philosophy to investigate whether and how social enterprises can support social justice. We propose that this perspective assigns organizations a duty to foster institutional capacity, a concept we define and elaborate. We investigate how this duty might apply specifically to social enterprises, given their characteristic features. We theorize six different mechanisms through which social enterprises might successfully discharge this duty. These results affirm the value of conversation between organizational studies and political philosophy and shed new light on debates regarding social enterprise, institutional theory, and several other topics.
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dc.identifier.citationLechterman, T. M., & Mair, J. (2024). Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective on Institutional Capacity. Organization Studies, 01708406241261435. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241261435.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241261435
dc.identifier.issn0170-8406
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3596
dc.issue.number9
dc.journal.titleOrganization Studies
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.total53
dc.publisherSAGE Journals
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Humanities
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subject.keywordSocial enterprise
dc.subject.keywordSocial justice
dc.subject.keywordInstitutional capacity
dc.subject.keywordStrong institutions
dc.subject.keywordPolitical philosophy
dc.subject.keywordJohn Rawls
dc.titleSocial Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity
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dc.volume.number45
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