What's Love Got to Do with It? Religion and the Multiple Logic Tensions of Social Enterprise

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ID3286343
AuthorsBruce R Borquist (0000-0001-6870-7991, International Ministries—ABCUSA, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue8
Pages655
Publication date2021-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12080655
OpenAlexW3194313814
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited95

This paper develops a model that advances our understanding of how social enterprises respond to the complexity of a constellation of multiple, often competing goals, referred to here as institutional logics. Introducing a religious logic to the recognised social welfare and commercial logics of social enterprise, this model builds on a religious worldview foundation and incorporates religion-inspired altruistic love and non-transactional giving as its scaffolding. A comparative case study of faith-based, faith-inspired and secular organisations located in Southeast Asia demonstrates the origin and applicability of the model. Findings highlight that religion serves as an overarching logic, or "metalogic", and frame of reference. Faith-based social enterprises use this religious logic to redefine perceived paradoxical tensions between the social welfare and commercial objectives they embody. Study results advance knowledge on organisational responses to multiple logic prescriptions, underscores the influence of religion, altruistic love and giving on organisational behaviour and contributes to the scarce literature on faith-based social enterprises

Epistemology · Faith · Institutional logic · Social science · Sociology · Transactional leadership · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership

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