Abstract Social enterprises (SEs) have emerged throughout the world to address societal challenges through market-based activities and innovation. Research has focused on how SEs manage the tensions arising from the combination of social-welfare and market logics, neglecting the institutional complexity that arises in authoritarian regimes where the state plays a dominant role. Based on the institutional logics perspective and interview data of 42 SE leaders in China, we find that key tensions arise from the state and social-welfare logics and that state logic (re)configures the social–market relationships to be compatible. Chinese SEs employed depoliticization and localization to adapt to this unique form of institutional complexity in their social innovation efforts. This study advances research on SEs, institutional complexity, and hybrid organizing.

Jiawei Sophia Fu

Shipeng Yan

VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

The official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, Voluntas is an interdisciplinary international journal that aims to be the central forum for worldwide research in the area between the state, market, and household sectors. The journal combines full-length articles with shorter research notes (reflecting the latest developments in the field) and book reviews. Voluntas is essential reading for all those engaged in research into the Third Sector (voluntary and nonprofit organizations) including economists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and social and public policy analysts. It aims to present leading-edge academic argument around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers.

Voluntas is the official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, aiming to be the central forum for global research at the intersection of the state, market, and household sectors. This interdisciplinary international journal combines full-length articles with shorter research notes that reflect the latest developments in the field, as well as book reviews. Voluntas is essential reading for all those engaged in research into the Third Sector (voluntary and nonprofit organizations), including economists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and social and public policy analysts. The journal aims to present leading-edge academic arguments around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers.

《Voluntas》是国际第三部门研究学会的官方期刊，旨在成为全球在国家、市场和家庭部门之间研究的核心论坛。这本跨学科的国际期刊结合了完整的研究文章、反映该领域最新发展的短篇研究笔记和书评。《Voluntas》是所有从事第三部门（志愿和非营利组织）研究的学者必读的期刊，包括经济学家、律师、政治科学家、心理学家、社会学家以及社会和公共政策分析师。期刊旨在以易于实践者和政策制定者理解的风格，呈现关于公民社会问题的前沿学术论点。

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Institutional Complexity and Social Innovation: The Case of Chinese Social Enterprises

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