TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Contingencies of Scaling Social Impact: A Replication and Extension of the SCALERS Model
AU - Cannatelli, Benedetto Lorenzo
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - While the scaling of impact remains to be one of the most important issues in the field of social entrepreneurship, limited empirical research has been focused on the topic. One of the first scholarly attempts to build a research agenda to better understand the scaling of social impact was the SCALERS model. Building on initial theoretical and empirical work, this study is based on a sample of 179 nonprofit organizations in Italy. It also extends prior work by providing theoretical grounding through contingency theory and conducting the first empirical test of the situational contingencies of the SCALERS model. A positive relationship between each of the SCALERS variables and scaling—except replicating—has been found. Initial evidence of five contingencies that moderate the relationship between the SCALERS and scaling of social impact has also been found.
AB - While the scaling of impact remains to be one of the most important issues in the field of social entrepreneurship, limited empirical research has been focused on the topic. One of the first scholarly attempts to build a research agenda to better understand the scaling of social impact was the SCALERS model. Building on initial theoretical and empirical work, this study is based on a sample of 179 nonprofit organizations in Italy. It also extends prior work by providing theoretical grounding through contingency theory and conducting the first empirical test of the situational contingencies of the SCALERS model. A positive relationship between each of the SCALERS variables and scaling—except replicating—has been found. Initial evidence of five contingencies that moderate the relationship between the SCALERS and scaling of social impact has also been found.
KW - Social Entrepreneurship
KW - Social Entrepreneurship
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/87316
UR - http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/49/art%253a10.1007%252fs11266-016-9789-x.pdf?originurl=http%3a%2f%2flink.springer.com%2farticle%2f10.1007%2fs11266-016-9789-x&token2=exp=1479302404~acl=%2fstatic%2fpdf%2f49%2fart%25253a10.1007%25252fs11266-016-9789-x.pdf%3foriginurl%3dhttp%253a%252f%252flink.springer.com%252farticle%252f10.1007%252fs11266-016-9789-x*~hmac=b6482b056d25d7c41aa1cf1c149eac3c5c9b4d05be56bfb21e3b2fed088e5a07
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-016-9789-x
DO - 10.1007/s11266-016-9789-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-8765
SP - N/A-N/A
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
ER -
