Data envelopment analysis and social enterprises: Analysing performance, strategic orientation and mission drift
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Data envelopment analysis and social enterprises : Analysing performance, strategic orientation and mission drift. / Staessens, Matthias; Kerstens, Pieter Jan; Bruneel, Johan; Cherchye, Laurens.
In: Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 159, No. 2, 2019, p. 325–341.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - Data envelopment analysis and social enterprises
T2 - Analysing performance, strategic orientation and mission drift
AU - Staessens, Matthias
AU - Kerstens, Pieter Jan
AU - Bruneel, Johan
AU - Cherchye, Laurens
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study endorses the use of data envelopment analysis, which uses benefit-of-the-doubt weighting to evaluate the social, economic and overall performance of social enterprises. This methodology is especially useful for creating composite indicators based on multiple outputs expressed in different measurement units, and allows for enterprise-specific weighting of the different objectives. Applying this methodology on a unique longitudinal dataset of Flemish sheltered workshops suggests that social enterprises may face different types of mission drift. Further, our results show that top-performing social enterprises are more economically and socially efficient than low performers. These top performers also have a stronger economic orientation, which sheds new light on the balance between social and economic orientations in social enterprises.
AB - This study endorses the use of data envelopment analysis, which uses benefit-of-the-doubt weighting to evaluate the social, economic and overall performance of social enterprises. This methodology is especially useful for creating composite indicators based on multiple outputs expressed in different measurement units, and allows for enterprise-specific weighting of the different objectives. Applying this methodology on a unique longitudinal dataset of Flemish sheltered workshops suggests that social enterprises may face different types of mission drift. Further, our results show that top-performing social enterprises are more economically and socially efficient than low performers. These top performers also have a stronger economic orientation, which sheds new light on the balance between social and economic orientations in social enterprises.
KW - Mission drift
KW - Performance measurement
KW - Social entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-018-4046-4
DO - 10.1007/s10551-018-4046-4
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85056308442
VL - 159
SP - 325
EP - 341
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
SN - 0167-4544
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 209170468