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Research Summary
Institutional entrepreneurship in the social enterprise sector
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Julie Battilana
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Description
Most recently, Professor Battilana has started studying institutional entrepreneurship in the social enterprise sector. Social entrepreneurs can be broadly characterized as individuals or organizations engaged in entrepreneurial activities with a social goal, such as commercial microfinance organizations. In attempting to achieve this social goal, social enterprise initiatives often break with existing institutions, thus providing a particularly adequate setting for examining the process of institutional entrepreneurship.