Abstract
Using community resilience and institutional entrepreneurship as conceptual lens, the paper explores whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems. Whilst drawing on narratives of enabling a bottom-up response to market failure, rather than radical or reformist adaptation, social enterprise may have produced a reluctant and state reliant response which may weaken the resilience of communities to survive continued austerity. The research selected and interviewed 30 social enterprises operating within non-metropolitan Greece during 2016. It contributes to knowledge through a novel framing, which clarifies that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.
DOI
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.017
Publication Date
2018-04-03
Publication Title
Journal of Rural Studies
Publisher
Elsevier
ISSN
0743-0167
Embargo Period
2024-11-19
Recommended Citation
Apostolopoulos, N., Newbery, R., & Gkartzios, M. (2018) 'Social enterprise and community resilience: Examining a Greek response to turbulent times', Journal of Rural Studies, . Elsevier: Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.017
