The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the collective dynamics of commitment that underlie the survival of social ventures. We argue that the traditional individual/project nexus – associating business survival to individual persistenceis insufficient to account for the complexity of social entrepreneurship. …

There is growing recognition of the important role that collective enterprises for social impact can play in resolving grand challenges. New forms of collective organisation are appearing on a global basis, yet we still know little about the process by which they are created. Paradoxically, the literature tends to r…