Commons organizing differs from social enterprises by prioritizing communal flourishing over financial sustainability.

Evidence

Although commons organizing adopts prosocial behavior, it does not fit with the hybrid approach supported by social entrepreneurship (Battilana and Lee 2014; Pache and Santos 2012). As described, the main goal of social enterprises is to cope with social issues and support financial sustainability (Doherty et al. 2014), enhancing entrepreneurial activities (Santos 2012). In contrast, the main goal of commons organizing is to support communities of people to produce, distribute, provide and share commons resources and to achieve the common good for the community’s flourishing (Bollier and Helfrich 2015; Sison and Fontrodona 2012). In the case of commons organizing, its hybrid nature or dual mission is motivated by prosocial behavior towards others, but this motivation is mainly found in the notion of achieving the common good (Mele 2009) and promoting collective action (Ostrom 1990). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 203

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the distinction between commons organizing and the better-known social entrepreneurship hybrid model — a useful conceptual boundary.
• XREF: Connects to Ostrom’s collective action theory and the hybrid-organization literature the reader may already hold. — connects to: Prosocial organizing spans CSR, social enterprises, hybrids, and community ventures. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 199
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 203

Related

• Prosocial organizing spans CSR, social enterprises, hybrids, and community ventures. (similarity 0.88)
• Commons initiatives emerge as entrepreneurial community movements responding to member marginalization. (similarity 0.83)
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.80)
• Hybrid organizations embed social purpose and financial sustainability in a dual logic. (similarity 0.80)
• Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise. (similarity 0.79)
• Commons organizing generates tensions with markets, regulations, and economic sustainability. (similarity 0.79)