Caught Between Welfare and Market: Institutional Logics and the Hybridity Problem in Disability-Led Social Enterprises in Taiwan

This article examines how welfare and market institutions shaped access to resources for disabled social entrepreneurs in Taiwan. The secondary analysis draws on 14 entries in a published dissertation covering eight contributors to a 2019 qualitative study. Welfare programs often recognised disability status but discounted commercial capability. Mainstream programs offered market resources but sometimes made accessibility conditional on venture scale. This pattern illustrates split recognition: each audience partly legitimated founders, yet their judgments failed to provide the combined support founders needed. The resulting hybridity penalty included fragmented access, additional administrative work and delayed opportunities.