Hi, I am doing a quantitative research on the determinants of the performance of social enterprises in South East Asia.
Recently, I read few interesting articles written by Bob Doherty on how "tiny" FT social enterprises like Divine and Cafedirect, established a mainstream competitive advantages confront those giant competitors like Nestle, by expanding their "social resources" grounded by Resource-Advantage Theory.
I would be very delighted if any seniors could advice, whether there is any tested instrument or survey questions to identify the "social resource": ethical & social commitments, connections with parthers, consistency of behaviour, in any social enterprise? All comments are welcome. Thanks.
1. B. Doherty (2006) Competing on social resources: the case of the DayChocolate Company in the UK confectionery sector.
2. B.Doherty (2011) Resource advantage theory and fair trade social enterprises
Hello Prof. Cheah,
Have a look at the World Bank social capital survey and see if it can be adapted for your purposes, especially pt. 2 on trust and solidarity as well as pt. 3 on collective action and cooperation. The questions need to be rephrased either (a) from the perspective of customers/beneficiaries of the social enterprise or (b) from within--including the proponents of the social enterprise. I would think that the survey questions would be more suitable in situation (a).
i hope this helps.
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/15033/281100PAPER0Measuring0social0capital.pdf?sequence=1
Hi Prof. Cheah,
Great initiative!
I'm not aware of any measurementes. But it is a topic I'm also working on and would love to keep in touch.
Best regards.
Hi Dr Emmanuel Yujuico, thank you so much for the sharing. However, the World Bank social capital is very much difference from the "social resource" context.
Hi, Dr. Jacqueline Pels, I tried very hard but yet to find. I had emailed my question to the article's author Dr Bob Doherty. I will share if I got any feedback from him.
By the way, I am still a Ph.D. candidate, you may just call me Cheah.
Keep in touch. Best wishes.
Hi Cheah,
Please call me Jaquie. I think your work will be very valuable. Please let me know how it moves on. I find it more practical if you write to my email: [email protected]
Best wishes.