Entrepreneurial teams in social entrepreneurship: when team heterogeneity facilitates organizational hybridity

Frédéric Dufays; Benjamin Huybrechts

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Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Teams

Theory and Practice

Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

Edited by Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and Thomas M. Cooney

This book reinforces the value and importance of entrepreneurial teams within the entrepreneurship literature. The expert group of contributors identifies and develops various key areas of research on entrepreneurship teams and suggests the way ahead for future research in the area. The contributors expand on the existing literature on entrepreneurial teams by first revisiting the most recent framework applied to entrepreneurial teams (that is the Inputs-Mediators-Outputs-Inputs model) and then advancing our understanding of issues such as formation, structuring, deep-level diversity and emergent states. The book additionally considers different contexts of application with reference to their commonalities and specificities and investigates under-researched areas such as entrepreneurial teams within indigenous communities, ethnically diverse groups and women entrepreneurs. The contributors present practice-relevant research and offer researchers a platform from which they can explore new insights into the phenomenon of entrepreneurial teams.

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Published in print:: 27 Jan 2017

ISBN:: 9781784713195

eISBN:: 9781784713263

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784713263

Pages:: 304

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Chapter 13: Entrepreneurial teams in social entrepreneurship: when team heterogeneity facilitates organizational hybridity

Frédéric Dufays and Benjamin Huybrechts

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Published:: 27 January 2017

Category:: Handbook Chapter

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784713263.00021

Pages:: 273–288 (16 total)

Collection: Business 2017

Abstract

The composition of teams involved in social entrepreneurship, and more particularly their heterogeneity in terms of ‘institutional logics’, has received little attention in entrepreneurship literature. This chapter highlights that when social welfare and market logics are integrated within founding teams, such hybridity is likely to infuse the whole entrepreneurial process to ultimately lead to the creation of a social enterprise as a ‘hybrid’ organization. To theorize this process, a model is proposed that examines the implications of entrepreneurial team heterogeneity in social entrepreneurship. It makes clear that complexity and dynamism, in particular with regard to individuals’ social network structure, as well as interactions between team members, are necessary to understand the impact of team composition on the entrepreneurial process. An illustrative case study is presented to demonstrate the practical relevance of the model.

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