Exploring the multi-level processes of legitimacy in transnational social enterprises |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economic and Management Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 5, Via Necchi, Milan, Italy;2. Department of Education Studies \"G. M. Bertin\", University of Bologna, 6, Via Filippo Re, Bologna, Italy;3. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;1. Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA;2. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA;3. Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R6, Canada;1. ETH Zurich, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Weinbergstrasse 56/58, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;2. University of Oldenburg, Department of Business Administration, Economics, and Law, Ammerlaender Heerstr. 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany;1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business, 916 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America;2. Miami University, Farmer School of Business, 2074 Farmer School of Business, Oxford, OH 45056, United States of America;3. The University of Queensland, Room 513, Joyce Ackroyd Building, St. Lucia Campus, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Transnational entrepreneurship has emerged as a form of migrants' participation in the social, economic, and political lives of both their countries of origin and of residence. Leveraging increasing evidence about migrants' involvment in transnational social enterprises, we examine the multi-level processes through which organizational legitimacy is molded by transnational entrepreneurs to reflect country-level institutional settings, and how organizational-level legitimacy affects entrepreneurs' social status. We longitudinally examine the multi-level processes of legitimation in a transnational social enterprise operated by Ghanaian migrants across Italy and Ghana. We analyze secondary and ethnographic data for two years, observing how transnational social enterprises harvest moral and pragmatic legitimacy from the institutional contexts in which they operate. We study how entrepreneurs construe their social status through pragmatic legitimacy obtained from their transnational ventures, and their institutional environments inspired by micro- and meso legitimacy reconfigurations. We discuss theoretical implications for social and transnational entrepreneurship and practical contributions for policy-making. |
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