Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs
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Social entrepreneurship Responsible innovation Sustainable management Mexican SMEs
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2019-07-07Referencia bibliográfica
Bahena-Álvarez, I. L., Cordón-Pozo, E., & Delgado-Cruz, A. (2019). Social entrepreneurship in the conduct of responsible innovation: Analysis cluster in Mexican SMEs. Sustainability, 11(13), 3714.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grant ECO2017-88222-P.Résumé
Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common
to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as “social entrepreneurs”. The present study of 100 Mexican
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), provides knowledge of an exploratory nature about
what the models of organization are conducive to SMEs in the generation and development of
responsible innovations. Through the statistical technique of cluster analysis, this study identified
and characterized four models of organization according to the level of social entrepreneurship
intentions reached: (1) “The techno-scientific organization”, (2) “The techno-social organization”,
(3) “The capitalist-social organization” and (4) “The capitalist organization”. While in Europe the
dominant discourse about responsible innovation focuses on the control of the risk of social rejection
of the advance of science and technology. In contexts, such as the Mexicans, the phenomenon is
configured as the mechanism through which entrepreneurs articulate its technological and scientific
capabilities to solve priority and specific problems of the society, however, the social impact does not
crucially affect their business initiatives. The techno-scientific organization (50% of studied SMEs) is
proposed as the model of organization with greater viability for Mexican entrepreneurs.