社会企业是创业研究的新兴领域,企业成长是管理研究的经典命题,本文从社会企业成长角度对国外现有研究成果进行了梳理与整合。首先,对社会企业成长进行概念界定,并根据社会企业连续光谱分析了该类企业的成长异质性。其次,基于成长异质性对社会企业的成长驱动因素及主要挑战进行了识别。其中,驱动因素包括内生和外生两个层面,挑战包括经济和社会两个层面。最后,从手段导向、合法性和社会网络三个视角对社会企业成长的未来研究进行了探讨,进而为该类企业成长研究提供了可参考的研究视角和具体命题。
Social enterprises are an emerging field of the entrepreneurship research, and enter prise growth is a classic proposition of management research. This paper reviews and integrates for- eign existing studies from the perspective of enterprise growth. First of all, this paper defines social enterprise growth. Based on the continuous spectrum of social enterprise, this paper analyzes the heterogeneity of social enterprises growth. Secondly, based on the heterogeneity of social enterpri- ses growth, this paper identifies driving factors and main growth challenges of social enterprise growth. Among them, driving factors include the endogenous and exogenous level and growth chal- lenges include the economic and social level. Finally, this paper discusses three future perspectives including effectuation, legitimacy and social network in order to provide a reference for research perspectives and specific issues for future research.