Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector : Individual and Collection Action Views

Liang SHANG*, Yanto CHANDRA

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal PublicationsJournal Article (refereed)peer-review

Abstract

From a humble experiment to tackle social problems, social enterprises (SEs) have transformed into key co-producers for a wide range of social services. However, despite an increasing interest in co-production, most SE studies in the field adopted a single-sided view of co-production, thereby limiting what co-production entails and how it works in SE. Drawing upon the New Public Governance (NPG) framework and an integrative view of co-production that embraces individual and collective action, we explored how the co-production process is enacted and designed from a service provider’s perspective and presented qualitative insights from eight SEs in providing work-integration services for people with disabilities. Our findings revealed strategic, operational and identity dimensions of co-production in SE. We also showed the different roles that SEs and their stakeholders play in co-production and how these affect the processes. We offer a new contribution to SE co-production literature by highlighting a multi-dimensional co-production process model of SEs in their quest to deliver social services.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberS0047279423000077
Number of pages23
JournalJournal of Social Policy
Early online date17 Feb 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 17 Feb 2023

Keywords

  • social enterprises
  • co-production
  • disability
  • employment
  • stakeholders

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