The Crucial Factors in the Sustainable Development of Social Enterprises

Based on a quantitative survey, this paper investigates the current situation of the development forsocial enterprises by drawing data from charity shops in Guangdong province, China. The paper seeks to identifythe crucial factors associated with charity shops sustainable development, which lead to significant changes in thesocial transformation, and common patterns across a small set of successful charity shops through employingparticipant observation and in-depth interviews. After using the business anthropological methods, severalconclusions which have formed as preliminary hypotheses are drawn. Four general observations are important forfurther learning on the sustainable development of charity shop, and four crucial factors such as, organizationalarrangements, characteristics of leaders, characteristics of innovations in operation, scaling up and socialtransformation will affect the sustainable development of charity shop. It will contribute to the understanding ofthe determining factors for sustainable development of social enterprise. Finally, relevant implications are drawnand limitations of the study are discussed accordingly

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