In order for social entrepreneurship and social innovation to take off for real in Mexico, two major inhibitors on structural level needs to be addressed and eliminated/reduced. One inhibitor is material and the other is discursive in nature. The material inhibitor is the lingering power of oldmoney, old elites, old solutions, old thinking, and old ways of organizing economic activity that still dominates economic and social life in Mexico. Inter-twinned with this material inhibitor is the discursive inhibitor; the skills of old power representatives in using "new and fresh vocabulary" to discursively obscure, blur and distort that their activities still are based on the aforementioned old power logic. The purpose of this article is to contribute to remedy the problem with the discursive inhibitor, via proposing an actionable conceptual framework for social entrepreneurs and social innovators in Mexico. If achieving some success on the discursive arenas, gains and wins therefrom can be used to take on the material inhibitor on the political-legal arenas. The henequen industry in Yucatan is used as an illustrative case to support the purpose.
Para que el emprendimiento social y la innovación social despeguen de verdad en México, se deben abordar y eliminar, o reducir, dos obstáculos principales a nivel estructural. Estos impedimentos son de carácter material y discursivo; el de naturaleza materialista se refiere al poder persistente de la vieja costumbre por el dinero, de las viejas élites, las viejas soluciones, el viejo pensamiento y las viejas formas de organizar la actividad económica que aún domina la vida económica y social en México. Este inhibidor material se entrelaza con el discusivo, ya que los viejos representantes en el poder hábilmente usan un "vocabulario nuevo y fresco" para oscurecer, distorsionar y desdibujar actividades que todavía se basan en la lógica del antiguo régimen.
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The time of publishing this research volume marks the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Interest Group (SIG) Entrepreneurship of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). After various back-office formation efforts in 2010 (see Lundberg, 2014: vii-xiv for more details), the SIG Entrepreneurship was founded and launched in 2011 with a dedicated symposium, and had its first full scale operations in 2012. This new SIG Entrepreneurship acknowledges the growing interest in entrepreneurship as a major knowledge domain with high practical and political relevance. With its contrasting perspective of value and venture creation, entrepreneurship both complements and challenges traditional management research in its research topics as well as its methodological approaches. Rather than dictating topics and trends, the SIG Entrepreneurship has pursued since its beginning in 2010 a bottom-up approach by letting its active members determine the research foci, which are captured each year anew in the conference tracks of the EURAM annual meeting. The growth of the SIG Entrepreneurship is the result of the strong commitment of its current and all past SIG officers – the editors of this research volume – to promote entrepreneurship as a strong an innovative field of research with a broad spectrum of socially and politically relevant themes, which can be addressed through a variety of modern methodological approaches. This approach has resulted in attracting ever and ever more members devoted to share their research results, to develop networking activities together, and to be actively involved in the management of the SIG. We are proud to say that after 10 years, Entrepreneurship is the SIG featuring the most research contributions at the annual EURAM conference in Dublin 2020. To emphasize and promote the diversity of innovative research topics, as well as the multiple nationalities of the researchers representing the SIG Entrepreneurship, we decided in 2014 to publish our first research volume on "entrepreneurship as a working attitude, as a mode of thinking and an everyday practice." With the growing diversity of the field and our SIG, we see today the necessity of a renewed snapshot of what is currently going on within the European entrepreneurship research community. Accordingly, our second volume on "European Entrepreneurship Research and Practice" carries the representative subtitle "A Multifaceted Effort Towards Integration of Different Perspectives." In the subsequent chapters, we are very fortunate and proud to present eight innovative contributions by researchers of our SIG. By promoting these advances in entrepreneurship, we wish to invite, in particular, young entrepreneurship researchers from Europe and all over the world to join our SIG and contribute to a distinct European perspective of entrepreneurship research, practice, and policy.
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