Outside vs. Inside Entrepreneurs: When Institutions Bind and Favors Blind

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Economic Issues on 12 May 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2016.1176483In some societies outside-entrepreneurs are more active than community-inside entrepreneurs. Institution, and relationships entrepreneurs entertain may hamper insiders from starting or succeeding. Institutional economics and anthropology suggest that, rather than outside-entrepreneurs having more resources, inside-entrepreneurs may be hampered by a community’s institutions that blind and social relations that bind. Outsiders may, however be less inclined to generate societal value

The dialectic of social exchange: theorizing corporate-social enterprise collaboration”, Organization Studies

We augment social exchange theory with dialectical theory to build a framework to exam-ine corporate–social enterprise collaborations. These cross-sector collaborations repre-sent a novel form of political-economic arrangement seeking to reconcile the efficient functioning of markets with the welfare of communities. We propose that corporate–social enterprise collaborations are shaped by (1) the value that each member of the collabora-tion attributes to their partner’s inputs, (2) competing practices and priorities intrinsic to the corporation and the social enterprise, and (3) expected benefits of the collaboration to each partner. For a synthesized state of collaboration to emerge and the partnership to be sustained, we posit that the antithetical forces inherent within the relationship must be resolved