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Mas-Machuca, Marta
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Akhmedova, Anna
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Marimon, Frederic
2026-03-06T10:50:02Z
2026-03-06T10:50:02Z
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Mas-Machuca, Marta; Akhmedova, Anna & Marimon, Frederic. The social mission works: internalizing the mission to achieve organizational performance in social enterprises. Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18(4), 965-989. Disponible en <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11846-023-00627-y>. Fecha de acceso: 4 mar. 2026. DOI: 10.1007/s11846-023-00627-y
1863-6691
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/5232
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-023-00627-y
Social enterprises (SE) are mission-driven organizations that pursue both: (1) financial
independence from grants or charity by achieving at least small profitability, and (2) positive
social and / or environmental impact. While the two objectives are mostly framed as
contradictory to each other in the recent literature, we scrutinize this assumption in this
investigation. We examine how internalization of mission (IM) by employees impacts on
employee mission engagement (EME) by employees and how EME is related to the perceived
social mission achievement (PSMA), and perceived organization performance (POP) within
the social enterprise setting. A sample of 143 social enterprises was used to confirm the scale
and validate the model by structural equation modelling. The findings reveal that
internalization of mission impacts on EME and that EME, as expected, is related to
organizational outcomes: PSMA and POP. Given that PSMA fully mediates POP, we conclude
that the social and economic objectives are fully compatible when the social mission is put at
the centre. Even more: POP cannot be achieved without PSMA. The lesson learnt is that the
social mission works if it is truly internalized. By focusing on internalization of mission, SEs
can avoid tensions among social and economic goals. While hybridity (focus on social and
economic ends) is what characterises the mission in a social enterprise, the majority of articles
still focus just on achieving one end. We provide a conceptual model (and its empirical
validation) of how social organizations achieve both: social objectives and business objectives.
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Social mission
Internalization of the mission
Employee mission performance
Employee mission engagement
Social mission achievement
Misión social
Internalización de la misión
Desempeño de la misión por parte de los empleados
Compromiso de los empleados con la misión
Cumplimiento de la misión social
Missió social
Internalització de la missió
Assoliment de la missió per part dels empleats
Compromís dels empleats amb la missió
Assoliment de la missió social
The social mission works: internalizing the mission to achieve organizational performance in social enterprises
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