Between civil society and market: Rise of social enterprises in Türkiye

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2025-9-30

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Şavlı Akbulut, Zeynep Tuğba

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This dissertation examines the rise and institutional positioning of social enterprises in Türkiye under conditions of limited formal recognition and uneven public support. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork with twenty-six organizations, it explains how actors assemble viable arrangements through capacity building as market access, self-imposed mission safeguards, and cross-sector brokering. The study develops a contextual typology—Civic–Mission Enterprises, Entrepreneurial–Commercial Hybrids, Empowerment Cooperatives, and Ecosystem-Oriented Social Enterprises—and proposes a comparative heuristic linking welfare configuration and regulatory clarity to expected organizational formulas. The analysis shows that uncertainty can be generative of adaptive designs rather than merely constraining. The thesis concludes with policy recommendations on flexible recognition, social procurement, fit-for-purpose finance, capacity development, and coordination mechanisms to strengthen the enabling environment for social enterprise growth.

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social entrepreneurship, hybrid organizations, contextual typology, institutional uncertainty

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116106

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis