TY - JOUR
T1 - Social enterprise and community resilience
T2 - Examining a Greek response to turbulent times
AU - Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos
AU - Newbery, Robert
AU - Gkartzios, Menelaos
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - Using community resilience and institutional entrepreneurship as conceptual lens, the paper explores whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems. Whilst drawing on narratives of enabling a bottom-up response to market failure, rather than radical or reformist adaptation, social enterprise may have produced a reluctant and state reliant response which may weaken the resilience of communities to survive continued austerity. The research selected and interviewed 30 social enterprises operating within non-metropolitan Greece during 2016. It contributes to knowledge through a novel framing, which clarifies that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.
AB - Using community resilience and institutional entrepreneurship as conceptual lens, the paper explores whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems. Whilst drawing on narratives of enabling a bottom-up response to market failure, rather than radical or reformist adaptation, social enterprise may have produced a reluctant and state reliant response which may weaken the resilience of communities to survive continued austerity. The research selected and interviewed 30 social enterprises operating within non-metropolitan Greece during 2016. It contributes to knowledge through a novel framing, which clarifies that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.
KW - Crisis
KW - Greece
KW - Institutional entrepreneurship
KW - Resilience
KW - Social enterprise
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068044271&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.017
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068044271
VL - 70
SP - 215
EP - 224
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
SN - 0743-0167
ER -