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June 11, 2026International Journal of Management ReviewsOpen Access

Beyond collaboration: A pluralistic review of interorganizational relationships in social entrepreneurship

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WHWiebke HeinzeJOJarrod Ormiston

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Overview

Systematic review reveals diverse interorganizational relationships in social entrepreneurship, suggesting new frameworks for understanding.

Key Points

  • This article aims to explore the complexity and diversity of interorganizational relationships in social entrepreneurship by adopting an ecosystem perspective.
  • Systematic literature review of 221 peer-reviewed articles
  • Development of a typology of interorganizational relationships
  • Analysis of collaborative and adversarial relationships among social entrepreneurs.
  • Identified a broad range of interorganizational relationships, including mutualism and competition.
  • Differentiated between antecedents, characteristics, and outcomes of each relationship type.
  • Extended entrepreneurial ecosystem scholarship by linking micro-level relationships with ecosystem-level dynamics.

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Heinze et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2a528480c8f91e7f39e82ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.70031
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