Do Gooders Versus Good Doers: An Empirical Examination of Growth Versus Efficiency in Social Entrepreneurship

Constrained by the regulatory requirements of a nonprofit, researchers have been tempted to posit that commercial ventures and nonprofit social ventures share different interpretations of the contribution of growth and profit to success measures. Social ventures must nonetheless tackle sustainability or they too risk marketplace failure. Robb-Post et al (2010) posited that a model of sustainable contributive advantage can explain