Summary:
Our understanding of how social enterprises enable social change is still limited. Empowerment could be a valid mediating construct to explain the processes occurring between entrepreneurial practices and achievement of social goals. Based on an ethnography case study in a South African social enterprise, this study reveals the entrepreneurial practices that contribute to women’s empowerment and the power-accruing processes that provide female workers access and control over resources and a sense of individual and collective achievement that facilitates the rupture of patriarchal gender roles. This empowerment-based model contributes to explain social change processes inherent in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship.
Keywords: Women’s empowerment, gender equality, social entrepreneurship, social change
JCR Impact Factor and WoS quartile: Q3 (2020)
DOI reference:
https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2020.1821753
Published on paper: January 2023.
Published on-line: October 2020.
Citation:
B. Pareja-Cano, C. Valor, A. Benito, How social enterprises nurture empowerment: a grounded theoretical model of social change. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Vol. 14, nº. 1, pp. 29 - 49, January 2023. [Online: October 2020]
