Investigate the antecedents in regions whose nature ecosystems are diversified, which may deepen the knowledge about the natural environment factors antecedent discovered herein. |
Qualitative approach, such as ethnography and life story. |
Understand interactional phenomena among the natural environment factors and the other antecedents that lead to the emergence of social enterprises. |
Qualitative approach, such as phenomenology. |
Concerning the scope of social enterprise actions, they can be compensatory (arise in order to compensate for the local failures of the capitalist system, such as marginalization and unemployment) or transformative (arise in order to change the global hegemonic system through transnational actions) (Newey, 2018Newey, L. R. (2018). ‘Changing the system’: Compensatory versus transformative social entrepreneurship. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 9(1), 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2017.1408671 https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2017.14...
). Thus, future studies may specifically analyze whether or not the antecedents that lead to the emergence of compensatory social enterprises are the same as those of transformative social enterprises, since such classification was not adopted in this paper. |
Qualitative approach, such as multi-case studies. |
Analyze whether a compensatory social enterprise can migrate towards a transformative one, trying to identify and to understand which antecedents are responsible for this change of local action to an international one, since the entrepreneur may not have experienced the local social problems of other countries. |
Qualitative approach, such as ethnomethodology and grounded theory. |
Would the antecedents be the same in the three main views on social enterprises? This investigation is intriguing because as the formation logic of these social businesses is different, it is necessary to analyze whether the antecedents can also be. |
Qualitative approach, such as comparative multi-case studies among USA, Europe, and developing countries. |
Analyze the framework proposed here in social enterprises that operate in other regions of Brazil, as well as in other countries, allowing a cross-cultural analysis of the antecedents that lead to the emergence of social enterprises. |
Qualitative approach, such as multi-case studies. |
Develop scales to measure each of the antecedents, which can enable greater appropriation of these constructs through quantitative analysis. |
Quantitative approach, such as fuzzy logic. |
Validate the proposed framework using large samples. |
Quantitative approach, such as multivariate linear regression. |
Replication of this research may lead to the discovery of other antecedents, being possible to complement the framework proposed in this paper. |
A variety of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approaches can be adopted. |
Analyze the innovation capabilities of social enterprises, investigating whether and how they differ or not from those found in traditional enterprises. The innovation performance of companies is driven by the innovation capabilities, which are: technological development capability, operations capability, management capability, and transaction capability (Zawislak, Alves, Tello-Gamarra, Barbieux, & Reichert, 2012Zawislak, P. A., Alves, A. C., Tello-Gamarra, J., Barbieux, D., & Reichert, F. M. (2012). Innovation capability: From technology development to transaction capability. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 7(2), 14-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242012000200002 http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242012...
). As much as these capabilities are widely discussed in traditional entrepreneurship, the specific context of social enterprises requires a deeper understanding of how these capabilities are related to social and economic issues, especially on social innovation. |
Qualitative approach, such as multi-case studies. |
Analyze whether and how the strategic foresight techniques that are widely adopted in traditional entrepreneurship can be adopted by social enterprises. As innovation requires constant change, strategic foresight is a way of predicting weak signals and technological trends that can change the future, allowing for prior adaptation to these changes - innovations development. As the social and economic context of social enterprises tends to be complex, strategic foresight can be an innovative action so that these enterprises propagate the social impact. |
Qualitative approach, such as multi-case studies. |
Investigate whether and how social enterprises can boost the development of public policies and, in contrast, how these policies at the local, regional, or national level can boost the social impact of these enterprises. |
Qualitative approach, such as grounded theory. |
Understand social entrepreneurship as a complex process composed of different agents (entrepreneurs, enterprises, citizens, communities, government, etc.) in various social and economic interactions. |
Qualitative and quantitative approaches, such as social network analysis. |