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Institutional and organizational trajectories in social economy enterprises: Resilience, transformation and regeneration
Author(s) -
Bretos Ignacio,
Bouchard Marie J.,
Zevi Alberto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/apce.12279
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , field (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , psychological resilience , regeneration (biology) , corporate governance , organizational field , degeneration (medical) , organizational change , public relations , business , sociology , economic system , political science , institutional theory , management , economics , social science , psychology , medicine , paleontology , physics , mathematics , pathology , biology , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics , microbiology and biotechnology
Abstract Social economy enterprises (SEEs) are arousing notable interest as promising alternatives where social innovation, business ownership and governance are concerned. In this context, a renewed debate about the internal changes and organizational trajectories experienced by these organizations has emerged in the scholarly literature. This special issue aims to contribute to ongoing debates in this field by advancing our understanding of the external pressures and internal dynamics that can trigger degeneration in SEEs, the conditions and factors that allow SEEs preserving their hallmark values and practices, and the resources and processes of organizational change that SEEs can deploy to overcome degeneration and regenerate. In this editorial introduction we introduce the topic of research, describe the content of the current special issue, and highlight some conclusions and possible directions for future research.