Social Capital and Management Strategies in Social Ventures: A Comparative Analysis

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530507
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Osaka University of Commerce
• Principal Investigator: MATSUNAGA Yoshiho 大阪商業大学, 総合経営学部, 教授 (60325561)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMAUCHI Naoto 大阪大学, 国際公共政策研究科, 教授 (90243146) ; OKUYAMA Naoko 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (80617556) ; MATSUSHIMA Midori 大阪商業大学, 総合経営学部, 助教 (20634520)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的企業家精神 / リーダーシップ / ソーシャルキャピタル / NPO / 社会的企業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Social enterprises, unlike ordinary nonprofit organizations, are expected to play extremely important roles as financially sustainable suppliers of quasi-public goods as alternatives to central or local governments encountering significant budget deficits. However, most of the previous research regarding social enterprises reported case studies in terms of management skills of unique social entrepreneurs and no previous paper gives a clue in how to train the new generation of social entrepreneur. Since social entrepreneurship is a main engine for the creation of social enterprise, it is very important to examine what factors impetus to grow social entrepreneurship. The original survey in this paper revealed that an increase in social capital enhanced social entrepreneurship. Consequently, this paper suggests that not only opportunities for their followers to hone their business skills but also those to accumulate social capital should create the new leaders in social enterprises.

Free Research Field

社会的企業論、応用計量経済学、NPO論、公共政策