Social entrepreneurship in the rural areas - a sports club's mobilisation of people, money and social capital Online publication date: Thu, 01-Sep-2016
by Yvonne Von Friedrichs; Olof Wahlberg
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), Vol. 29, No. 2, 2016
Abstract: This paper is about the growth, roots and concerns of social entrepreneurship in a small, peripheral society, where the sports club has taken over common public responsibilities and become a change agent for the community development. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge about the conditions and challenges of social entrepreneurship when the voluntary sector in the form of a sports club takes over traditional public commitments in small, rural societies. An exploratory case study approach is used. The club's social embeddedness is found to have given it credibility in the local society, and its geographical proximity has turned it into a bricoleur, while its ability to mobilise critical resources has been key to its success as a social entrepreneur. The study contributes to the growing field of social entrepreneurship with empirical evidence on how volunteers can serve as important change agents in rural local societies.
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