Social enterprise and community resilience: Examining a Greek response to turbulent times

Nikolaos Apostolopoulos, Robert Newbery, Menelaos Gkartzios
2018 Journal of Rural Studies  
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
more » ... ected 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 fatcat:pyw5b324lncp5dnrbuhjtucjtu