Saurabh, Rohit Bharadwaj, Manoj Pandey, Devendra Kumar Pandey
The social enterprises (SEs) often face the challenge of generating and managing their tangible and intangible resources at different stages of their venture. From the startup to scaling the operations or diversifying of the operations, they have to match their mission with their resources. The paper investigates the importance of significant resource approaches at different venture stages of social enterprises (SEs). It is based on a study that follows an alternate template strategy to examine different theoretical perspectives with respect to entrepreneurial actions involved in four different cases of SEs based in India. With the help of cases of four different SEs, the study emphasizes the significance of different resource approaches at their various venture stages. The study presents novel insights on the basis of comparison of different resource approaches. It provides a conceptual contribution to the dimension of resourcing strategies in social entrepreneurship (SE) literature. This paper will be useful for the scholars as well as practitioners who are looking forward to understand the role of different resource approaches for amassing, mobilizing and reconfiguring resources in SEs.