City of ‘social saints’: the role of place in driving impact entrepreneurship in Turin, Italy
本文提出一个多维框架，分析地方感、社区嵌入与影响力创业如何相互作用，以意大利都灵为例，揭示个体如何基于地方使命感找到志同道合的社区，共同推动社会与环境挑战的解决。
This paper theorizes impact entrepreneurship (IE) in relation to place by examining dynamics at the individual, community, and organizational levels. While existing IE literature emphasizes entrepreneurship aimed at addressing grand challenges, it often adopts an aggregate view that overlooks how locally embedded entrepreneurs access and mobilize social and economic resources. We introduce a novel, multidimensional framework to show how sense of place, community embeddedness and IE interrelate to shape approaches to current social/environmental challenges. Adopting a qualitative approach, this paper investigates how different actors in Turin, Italy, contribute to IE through building on a legacy of social sector institutions. We find that individuals identifying with a place-based vocation of social impact find communities with a shared volition to work together and across organizations. We contribute to understanding how individuals’ senses of place can be leveraged into wider community efforts to support IE in the region. The paper advances the IE concept to account for the individual perspectives influencing local organizing practices and visions for IE rooted in place.