Understanding Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Realist Abstraction
从批判实在论视角分析社会创业机会涌现中的动态结构/能动关系，基于实证证据揭示了机会实现的过程和所需的结构条件，为相关实证研究提供了理论框架和实用工具。
This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrate an agential aspect (opportunity actualisation following a path-dependent seeding-growing-shaping process) and a structural aspect (institutional, cognitive and embedded structures necessary for SE opportunity emergence) related to SE opportunities. These structures provide three boundary conditions for SE agency: institutional discrimination, an SE belief system and social feasibility. Within this article, we develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse SE opportunities plus, an applicable tool to advance related empirical research.