Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Existing research on sustainability transitions has primarily focused on technological change within national innovation systems, often overlooking social change and global interdependencies. This study examines the emergence of social entrepreneurship as a global sustainability niche that offers an alternative institutional rationality to the prevailing commercial entrepreneurship regime. We introduce a framework that depicts how sustainability transitions unfold across regional subsystems, where intermediaries connecting the Global North and South facilitate niche transfer through institution-building initiatives. Applying the framework to Colombia, we examine how intermediaries from the Global North shape the institutionalization of social entrepreneurship in the Global South along regulative, cognitive, and normative domains. The results reveal how an inchoate institutional environment enables well-resourced Northern intermediaries to play an outsized role in shaping local institutions. Power asymmetries and limited downward accountability reduce the reflexivity of intermediaries leading institutionalization processes, creating tensions with the country's indigenous solidarity economy organizations. The study contributes to the literature on sustainability transitions by unravelling the promises and challenges of foreign-led institutionalization of sustainability niches in the Global South. • Social entrepreneurship constitutes a sustainability niche with a distinct institutional rationality. • The study examines how intermediaries from the Global North institutionalize social entrepreneurship in the Global South. • In Colombia, Northern intermediaries play a significant role in building regulative, normative and cognitive institutions. • Power asymmetries and limited downward accountability limit reflexivity in institutionalization. • The institutionalization of social entrepreneurship generated tensions with Colombia's indigenous solidarity economy.
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Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.
| Model arm | Categories | Study design | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemma | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Observational | low |
| gpt | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Qualitative | low |
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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