Social enterprise and community resilience: Examining a Greek response to turbulent times

Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos, Newbery, Robert and Gkartzios, Menelaos (2019) Social enterprise and community resilience: Examining a Greek response to turbulent times. Journal of Rural Studies, 70. pp. 215-224. ISSN 0743-0167

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Abstract

Using community resilience and institutional entrepreneurship as conceptual lens, the paper explores whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems. Whilst drawing on narratives of enabling a bottom-up response to market failure, rather than radical or reformist adaptation, social enterprise may have produced a reluctant and state reliant response which may weaken the resilience of communities to survive continued austerity. The research selected and interviewed 30 social enterprises operating within non-metropolitan Greece during 2016. It contributes to knowledge through a novel framing, which clarifies that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.

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