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A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/82271 A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises Myres, Kerrin ichelp@gibs.co.za Hewitt, Julian UCTD Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2021. Social enterprises play an important role in addressing issues of social welfare and catalysing social change. In a context characterised by inequality, poverty, and unemployment, the core social enterprise mandate of creating social value is an important one. Yet social enterprises struggle to grow and scale their impact. The strategic management framework of dynamic capabilities and its components of sensing, seizing, and transforming is concerned with how businesses maintain and sustain competitive advantage. This research study replicated a dynamic capabilities scale and an associated business performance survey instrument with social enterprise and commercial enterprise respondents. Statistical analysis was undertaken to determine how dynamic capabilities differed across these two enterprise groups and whether dynamic capabilities were levers of business performance for social enterprises. The results concluded that the dynamic capabilities scale showed strong validity and reliability within a social enterprise environment, but there was not a strong overall correlation to business performance. The findings of the study also revealed two potential barriers to growth where social enterprises differed markedly from their commercial enterprise counterparts around certain dynamic capability items. Finally, the study found that the organisational age and size of a social enterprise had a significant bearing on business performance. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil (Corporate Strategy) Unrestricted 2021-10-27T13:27:52Z 2021-10-27T13:27:52Z 2021 2021 Mini Dissertation * http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82271 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title | A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title_full | A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title_fullStr | A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title_full_unstemmed | A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title_short | A dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth: comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| title_sort | dynamic capabilities view of barriers to growth comparison of social and commercial enterprises |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82271 |