Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Strategic Sensemaking within Funding Relationships: The Effects of Performance Measurement on Organizational Identity in the Social Sector

Strategic Sensemaking within Funding Relationships: The Effects of Performance Measurement on... Researchers claim that social entrepreneurship represents a new phenomenon within the social sector. Their studies often distinguish social entrepreneurs according to their emphasis on tracking and measuring their performance. By applying sense making theory to three case studies of funding relationships within the social sector, this study finds that organizations within the social sector employ performance measurement not just as a means of accountability, but also as a tool for making sense of social entrepreneurship as an organizational identity. As such, the article refocuses scholarly attention on social entrepreneurship as a socially constructed phenomenon. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice SAGE

Strategic Sensemaking within Funding Relationships: The Effects of Performance Measurement on Organizational Identity in the Social Sector

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , Volume 34 (4): 21 – Jul 1, 2010

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/strategic-sensemaking-within-funding-relationships-the-effects-of-GpNExnX9JK

References (72)

Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2010 SAGE Publications
ISSN
1042-2587
eISSN
1540-6520
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00398.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Researchers claim that social entrepreneurship represents a new phenomenon within the social sector. Their studies often distinguish social entrepreneurs according to their emphasis on tracking and measuring their performance. By applying sense making theory to three case studies of funding relationships within the social sector, this study finds that organizations within the social sector employ performance measurement not just as a means of accountability, but also as a tool for making sense of social entrepreneurship as an organizational identity. As such, the article refocuses scholarly attention on social entrepreneurship as a socially constructed phenomenon.

Journal

Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE

Published: Jul 1, 2010

There are no references for this article.