Whom to Ask for Feedback: Insights for Resource Mobilization From Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurs need resources to develop their organizations and catalyze social impact. Existing research focuses on how access use resources, yet it neglects they search for resource holders. This issue is particularly salient in entrepreneurs’ decisions about whom approach interpersonal feedback as a valuable resource. The current literature offers lists of individuals implies these can be easily accessed. Thus, little insight into select why, or why struggle feedback. We conducted an in-depth inductive study based 82 interviews with 36 nascent investigate within outside networks through iterative appraisal process. Our findings start open the black box searching holders mobilization process offer insights power stigma entrepreneurship.