Explaining the viability of social entrepreneurship support and incubation units in higher education: Critical realist case studies

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2021
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Abstract
Purpose, theoretical foundations, and research design. This dissertation aimed to explain the viability of higher education institution (HEI)-based units in charge of social entrepreneurship (SE) support and incubation through a critical realist approach. This research provided narrative accounts of HEI stakeholder experiences related to SE support and incubation. This study was employed in two phases: (1) a critical realist multiple case study research design of cases in the Philippines and (2) cases outside the Philippines. The theoretical foundations of this dissertation are systems theory, specifically the Viable Systems Model (VSM), and stakeholder theory. Due to the risks brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, primary and secondary data were collected through online video conferences and storing relevant published data on websites and social media. The data were analyzed through qualitative coding aligned with the VSM approach and the critical realist RRREIC schema of event resolution, theoretical redescription of events, retrodiction of initial causal mechanisms, elimination of alternative explanations, and the identification and correction of current-best causal mechanisms. This research primarily employed online data gathering techniques given the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This dissertation focused only on SE support and incubation within the higher education context. Standalone social incubators and social incubators are excluded from this study. Key findings. Social entrepreneurship support and incubation within higher education is still a nascent field. SE support and incubation units within the HEI context has two primary purposes: (1) developing students as social entrepreneurs or social innovators and (2) incubation of social enterprises in partnership with communities. Social impact units that support student social entrepreneurs and incubate social enterprises do not necessarily self-identify as social enterprise incubators. Thus, the viability of SE support and incubation refers to (1) the capability of an HEI and its social impact unit to functionally exist over time considering external conditions and (2) capability for continuous fulfillment of purpose. The seven mechanisms of viable SE support and incubation units in higher education are (1) community-as-partners mechanism, (2) recursive systems identity mechanism, (3) systems and stakeholder multidimensionality mechanism, (4) key person mechanism, (5) institutionalization mechanism, (6) digitalization mechanism, and (7) ecosystem of support mechanism. This study discovered that the general principles of VSM (recursiveness, complexity, variety, cohesiveness, and responsiveness) are applicable, but the depiction of a standalone incubator’s VSM diagram is not applicable to HEI-based social impact units. Moreover, the narrative descriptions of viability, based on the case studies,
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Authors Aure, Patrick Adriel H.
Journal Malay Journal
Year 2021
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