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"In light of Emil Walter-Busch's (1996) seminal Organisationstheorien von Weber bis Weick, we investigate how Weick's dealing with the process, cause and style of theorizing transformed the coordinates of our academic discipline into a post-Weickian form of organization theory. We delineate how Weick's theorizing artistically probed and shifted the existing limits of the mainstream way of theorizing by emphasizing the aesthetic side of theorizing. Furthermore, we connect Weick's poetic understanding of theorizing with the controversial emergence of a postmodern view an organizational theory and its claim that theorizing cannot be stripped off its political implications. Claiming that organization theory today is still characterized by an illustrious, elitist group that enforces order by categorizing, structuring and coding our academic territory, we stage a plea for a minor organizational theorizing, which might be achieved by allowing for dissensus, so as to enable the expression and phrasing of the conflicts within and between discursive regimes. By making way for modes of enunciation that re-connect the aesthetical and the political, we might engender new epistemes and imaginative ways for representing the notoriously silent and silenced of organization theory." (author's abstract)

Purpose
That social franchising programs induce favorable outcomes is readily taken for granted, albeit lacking robust empirical support. Addressing this situation, this paper takes a closer look at a fractional social franchising program in the public health-care sector in Vietnam to better understand how such programs work. This paper aims to expand the nascent body of empirical research that has examined the inner workings of social franchising programs from the perspective of clients by focusing on the health professionals who work there.


Design/methodology/approach
Using an exploratory qualitative research design, the authors conducted 25 semistructured interviews with health professionals of a fractional franchising program called Sisterhood, which introduced reproductive health and family planning services into existing health facilities in Vietnam. Interviews were triangulated with Sisterhood's internal documents as well as with publicly available reports.


Findings
The analysis highlights two pathways through which the social franchising program brought about positive change. On the one hand, the analysis suggests that many of the positive outcomes reported by public health professionals were consistent with the stated goals and measures used by the Sisterhood program, providing evidence that improving the quality of health care for disadvantaged communities can be achieved through careful design and execution. On the other hand, the analysis revealed beneficial outcomes that were outside the scope of the Sisterhood program and, in this sense, "unexpected." Specifically, the paper sheds light on unintended knowledge spillover effects in which nonfranchised health professionals began to adopt new practices and principles introduced by the social franchising program.


Originality/value
The paper taps into a largely under-researched phenomenon – fractional social franchising – from the perspective of health professionals. Unpacking how the social franchising program created favorable outcomes, some by design and others by accident, the paper opens new empirical and policy insights into how social franchising can improve public health in hard-to-reach communities in the global South. Based on the findings, the authors argue for the intentional promotion and institutionalization of knowledge transfers from franchised to nonfranchised health facilities to reinforce and scale up the positive impact of social franchising. The authors conclude by emphasizing the need for future research to adopt a complexity-sensitive approach that accounts for the dynamic, nonlinear adoption pathways social franchising can take. Such an approach is essential to uncover the beneficial outcomes that can result from social franchising programs but cannot be readily predicted by program design.

Unser Beitrag versteht sich als Inter-Text zwischen ausgewählten FQS-Artikeln – welche in der einen oder anderen Art die Identitätspolitik qualitativer Forschung zum Ausdruck bringt – und der breit angelegten Qualitätsdiskussion sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Anhand einer Diskursanalyse wird untersucht, wie die Bedeutung "qualitativer Forschung" durch deren Verknüpfung mit dem positivistischen Verständnis von Forschung eingeschränkt wird. Das Ziel dabei ist, zwei besonders rigide binäre Hierarchien kritisch zu beleuchten und zu zeigen, wie diese konträr zu einem kreativen/ästhetischen Verständnis von (qualitativer) Forschung verlaufen. Die Untersuchung sieht sich zudem als Versuch, den Horizont qualitativer Forschung durch die Erweiterung von deren Begrifflichkeit zu öffnen. Dazu wird in einem ersten Schritt auf die binäre Unterscheidung von qualitativer und quantitativer Forschung eingegangen. Es wird dabei verdeutlicht, dass diese Trennung – nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Reifizierung quantitativer Qualitätskriterien – zu einer chronischen Nachrangigkeit des qualitativen Wissenschaftsverständnisses führt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird auf die binäre Unterscheidung zwischen qualitativer Forschung und "Nicht-Forschung" – wie beispielsweise Kunst, Journalismus oder Dichtung – eingegangen, wobei diskutiert wird, dass diese Unterscheidung in erster Linie im Dienste der wissenschaftlichen Legitimation qualitativer Forschung steht. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass beide binäre Unterscheidungen zu einem eingeschränkten Verständnis und oft auch zu einem untergeordneten Status qualitativer Forschung führen, werden ausgewählte postmoderne Ansätze herbeigezogen, um ein alternatives Verständnis von (qualitativer) Forschung und Forschungsqualität zu etablieren. Wir schließen unseren Beitrag mit einem Appell für eine "Politik der Differenz", welche sich unter anderem für die Erweiterung der Identität qualitativer Forschung – anhand der Vervielfältigung ihrer Genres, Stile und Tropoi – stark macht. URN: ...

Unser Beitrag versteht sich als Inter-Text zwischen ausgewählten FQS-Artikeln – welche in der einen oder anderen Art die Identitätspolitik qualitativer Forschung zum Ausdruck bringt – und der breit angelegten Qualitätsdiskussion sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Anhand einer Diskursanalyse wird untersucht, wie die Bedeutung "qualitativer Forschung" durch deren Verknüpfung mit dem positivistischen Verständnis von Forschung eingeschränkt wird. Das Ziel dabei ist, zwei besonders rigide binäre Hierarchien kritisch zu beleuchten und zu zeigen, wie diese konträr zu einem kreativen/ästhetischen Verständnis von (qualitativer) Forschung verlaufen. Die Untersuchung sieht sich zudem als Versuch, den Horizont qualitativer Forschung durch die Erweiterung von deren Begrifflichkeit zu öffnen. Dazu wird in einem ersten Schritt auf die binäre Unterscheidung von qualitativer und quantitativer Forschung eingegangen. Es wird dabei verdeutlicht, dass diese Trennung – nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Reifizierung quantitativer Qualitätskriterien – zu einer chronischen Nachrangigkeit des qualitativen Wissenschaftsverständnisses führt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird auf die binäre Unterscheidung zwischen qualitativer Forschung und "Nicht-Forschung" – wie beispielsweise Kunst, Journalismus oder Dichtung – eingegangen, wobei diskutiert wird, dass diese Unterscheidung in erster Linie im Dienste der wissenschaftlichen Legitimation qualitativer Forschung steht. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass beide binäre Unterscheidungen zu einem eingeschränkten Verständnis und oft auch zu einem untergeordneten Status qualitativer Forschung führen, werden ausgewählte postmoderne Ansätze herbeigezogen, um ein alternatives Verständnis von (qualitativer) Forschung und Forschungsqualität zu etablieren. Wir schließen unseren Beitrag mit einem Appell für eine "Politik der Differenz", welche sich unter anderem für die Erweiterung der Identität qualitativer Forschung – anhand der Vervielfältigung ihrer Genres, Stile und Tropoi – stark macht.

In the context of recurrent economic crises, 'alternative' models of economic organising such as social enterprise offer compelling examples of utopian imageries of a better future 'to come'. Social enterprise qua utopia implies not only that alternative ways of being and co-existence are desirable, but that there is often a disjuncture between the desirable futures such utopian imaginaries project and the extent to which they are actualised or even actualisable in practice. The UK, which has long been considered the most conducive environment for social enterprise activity, offers a fertile ground to study this tension between utopian imagination and empirical actualization. Drawing from three large-scale research projects focusing on the social economy in Scotland and the North of England, this paper explores the link between social enterprise as a political program and as lived material practices unfolding under conditions of extreme resource scarcity caused by austerity measures. Our findings reveal that whatever utopian impulse social enterprise might contain, it is constituted, in the last instance, in the movement between ideas and everyday life, i.e. the aggregate of mundane practices, routines and experiences. Attentiveness to the precariousness instigated through austerity measures, such as social budget cuts, the key contribution this paper makes is to jettison approaches that treat social enterprise as a context-independent and totalizing ideal that divorces its utopian potential from the everyday practices through which this potential is being realized.

In the context of recurrent economic crises, 'alternative' models of economic organising such as social enterprise offer compelling examples of utopian imageries of a better future 'to come'. Social enterprise qua utopia implies not only that alternative ways of being and co-existence are desirable, but that there is often a disjuncture between the desirable futures such utopian imaginaries project and the extent to which they are actualised or even actualisable in practice. The UK, which has long been considered the most conducive environment for social enterprise activity, offers a fertile ground to study this tension between utopian imagination and empirical actualization. Drawing from three large-scale research projects focusing on the social economy in Scotland and the North of England, this paper explores the link between social enterprise as a political program and as lived material practices unfolding under conditions of extreme resource scarcity caused by austerity measures. Our findings reveal that whatever utopian impulse social enterprise might contain, it is constituted, in the last instance, in the movement between ideas and everyday life, i.e. the aggregate of mundane practices, routines and experiences. Attentiveness to the precariousness instigated through austerity measures, such as social budget cuts, the key contribution this paper makes is to jettison approaches that treat social enterprise as a context-independent and totalizing ideal that divorces its utopian potential from the everyday practices through which this potential is being realized.

Purpose
In today's "market society" almost every aspect of the everyday lives is shaped by market forces. In this essay, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the potential role of social enterprise as one means of re-embedding the economy into society to ensure the economy works for people, rather than the other way around.


Design/methodology/approach
This is primarily a conceptual paper: a provocation.


Findings
The authors argue that to work as an embedding force, social enterprise needs to ensure both reciprocity and market exchange while acting in a way that attempts to compensate for the retreat of the state through providing public services and promoting collective decision-making and public deliberation.


Originality/value
Drawing upon the work of Karl Polanyi to conceptualise social enterprise as an "alternative" economic actor within a plural economic system, the authors contribute to on-going debates about social enterprise as an alternative way of organising markets and society. The authors highlight the challenges involved in achieving such a vision and suggest ways these might be overcome.

Purpose In today's "market society" almost every aspect of the everyday lives is shaped by market forces. In this essay, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the potential role of social enterprise as one means of re-embedding the economy into society to ensure the economy works for people, rather than the other way around. Design/methodology/approach This is primarily a conceptual paper: a provocation. Findings The authors argue that to work as an embedding force, social enterprise needs to ensure both reciprocity and market exchange while acting in a way that attempts to compensate for the retreat of the state through providing public services and promoting collective decision-making and public deliberation. Originality/value Drawing upon the work of Karl Polanyi to conceptualise social enterprise as an "alternative" economic actor within a plural economic system, the authors contribute to on-going debates about social enterprise as an alternative way of organising markets and society. The authors highlight the challenges involved in achieving such a vision and suggest ways these might be overcome.

Critical entrepreneurship studies : a manifesto / Caroline Essers, Pascal Dey, Deirdre Tedmanson and Karen Verduyn -- Contesting neo-liberal aspects of traditional entrepreneurship approaches -- Social entrepreneurs : precious and precarious / Karin Berglund -- Social enterprise and the everydayness of precarious indigenous cambodian villagers : challenging ethnocentric epistemologies / Isaac Lyne -- Reasons to be fearful : the "google model of production", entrepreneurship, corporate power, and the concentration of dispersed knowledge / Gerard Hanlon -- Locating new forms of indigenous and community-based entrepreneurship -- Emerging entrepreneurship in South America / Miguel Imas -- Challenging leadership in discourses of indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia / Deirdre Tedmanson and Michelle Evans -- Feeding the city : the importance of the informal warung restaurants for the urban economy in Indonesia / Peter de Boer and Lothar Smith -- Critiquing the archetype of the White, Christian entrepreneur -- Injecting reality into the migrant entrepreneurship agenda / Monder Ram, Trevor Jones and Maria Villares -- Bringing strategy back : ethnic minority entrepreneurs' construction of legitimacy by "fitting in" and "standing out" in the creative industries / Annelies Thoelen and Patrizia Zanoni -- A critical reflection on female migrant entrepreneurship in the Netherlands / Karen Verduyn and Caroline Essers -- Challenging the gendered sub-text in entrepreneurship -- Critically evaluating contemporary entrepreneurship from a feminist perspective / Susan Marlow and Haya Al-Dajani -- On entrepreneurship and empowerment : postcolonial feminist interventions / Banu Ozkazanc-Pan -- Bridging the gap between resistance and power through agency : an empirical analysis of struggle by immigrant woman entrepreneurs / Huriye Aygören -- Deconstructing entrepreneurship -- Governance of welfare and expropriation of the common : Polish tales of entrepreneurship / Dorota Marsh and Pete Thomas -- Deconstructing ecopreneurship / Annika Skoglund -- Index

Purpose
As a critical and intimate form of inquiry, ethnography remains close to lived realities and equips scholars with a unique methodological angle on social phenomena. This paper aims to explore the potential gains from an increased use of ethnography in social enterprise studies.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors develop the argument through a set of dualistic themes, namely, the socio-economic dichotomy and the discourse/practice divide as predominant critical lenses through which social enterprise is currently examined, and suggest shifts from visible leaders to invisible collectives and from case study-based monologues to dialogic ethnography.


Findings
Ethnography sheds new light on at least four neglected aspects. Studying social enterprises ethnographically complicates simple reductions to socio-economic tensions, by enriching the set of differences through which practitioners make sense of their work-world. Ethnography provides a tool for unravelling how practitioners engage with discourse(s) of power, thus marking the concrete results of intervention (to some degree at least) as unplannable, and yet effective. Ethnographic examples signal the merits of moving beyond leaders towards more collective representations and in-depth accounts of (self-)development. Reflexive ethnographies demonstrate the heuristic value of accepting the self as an inevitable part of research and exemplify insights won through a thoroughly bodily and emotional commitment to sharing the life world of others.


Originality/value
The present volume collects original ethnographic research of social enterprises. The editorial develops the first consistent account of the merits of studying social enterprises ethnographically.

The term 'social innovation' has come to gather all manner of meanings from policymakers and politicians across the political spectrum. But while actors may unproblematically unite around a broad perspective of social innovation as bringing about (positive) social change, we rarely see evidence of a shared vision for the kind of social change that social innovation ought to bring about. Taking inspiration from methods that recognise the utopian thinking inherent in the social innovation concept, we draw upon Erik Olin Wright's concept of 'real utopias' to investigate the moral underpinnings inherent in the public statements of Ashoka, one of the most prominent social innovation actors operating in the world today. We seek to animate discussion on the moral principles that guide social innovation discourse through examining the problems that Ashoka is trying to solve through social innovation, the world they are striving to create, and the strategies they propose to realise their vision.