Identifying the determinants of social impact: an exploratory empirical test of SCALERS
- Abhigyan
- 38(2), Jul-Sep, 2020: p.1-10
The concept of scaling social impact emerges as one of the top-priority themes in the world of social entrepreneurship, even though the topic has been treated with constrained theoretical and empirical evidence. One of the first impact-building and thought provoking research studies enabling a fair understanding of the scaling of social impact was the valuable work of the SCALERS model. The current study attempts to stretch the preceding work on the determinants of scaling social impact by appending to the existing theoretical base upon which the SCALERS model is built and also by conducting an empirical investigation in different geographical areas with the same set of constructs and scales, although modified after conducting pilot studies of the model. The correlations between the drivers of the SCALERS model (organization capabilities) and scaling of social impact was found to be significant and moderate in magnitude, except for the construct lobbying where the association was found to be insignificant. Finally, the findings of the study contribute to a broader realization of the dominant drivers that facilitate the effective scaling up in social entrepreneurship. – Reproduced
Social entrepreneurship, Scaling, Organization capabilities, Secondary education, Assam.