Aligning multiple mandates and mission simultaneously : a case of small and medium-sized social enterprises in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorOsembo, Emmanuel Simiyu
dc.contributor.authorMyres, Kerrin
dc.contributor.authorJankelowitz, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T09:05:13Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T09:05:13Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractResearch has shown that social enterprises balance dual-mandated goals emanating from the respective social and commercial logics, to avoid mission drift. However, little is known about the practical ways to simultaneously align multiple goals stemming from multiple external mandates and core social mission. These multiple mandates are embodied within multiple logics. To address this issue, this research analyses how small and medium-sized social enterprises (SMSEs) in resource-constrained environments like South Africa act as melting pots of multiple mandates and core mission that require simultaneous alignment. The study reveals that at a meso-level, the SMSEs leverage community embeddedness, mission agility, and proactive monitoring and evaluation to simultaneously exploit and explore opportunities. The study introduces a framework for internal-external practising facilitating innovative exploration to align multiple mandates with the core missions at a meso-level in social enterprises. With these findings, this study adds to the emergent literature on multiple mandates alignment in social enterprises.en_US
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en_US
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-17:Partnerships for the goalsen_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tepn20en_US
dc.identifier.citationEmmanuel Simiyu Osembo, Kerrin Myres & Lauren Jankelowitz (07 Mar 2025): Aligning multiple mandates and mission simultaneously: a case of small and mediumsized social enterprises in South Africa, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2025.2473097.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0898-5626 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1464-5114 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/08985626.2025.2473097
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/101991
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectSmall and medium-sized social enterprises (SMSEs)en_US
dc.subjectSocial missionen_US
dc.subjectMandatesen_US
dc.subjectMonitoring and evaluationen_US
dc.subjectMission agilityen_US
dc.subjectInternal-external practisingen_US
dc.subjectCommunity embeddednessen_US
dc.subjectSocial enterprisesen_US
dc.subjectSDG-17: Partnerships for the goalsen_US
dc.titleAligning multiple mandates and mission simultaneously : a case of small and medium-sized social enterprises in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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