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Upon completing this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following:
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Explain the difference between organizational growth and replication by others.
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Explain major scaling strategies and their distinctive features.
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Understand advantages and disadvantages of the scaling strategies.
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Recognize the perspective of social investors towards scaling.
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Explain implications of scaling and how hurdles could be overcome.
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Ahlert, D., Ahlert, M., Duon Dinh, H.V., Fleisch, H., Heußler, T., Kilee, L. and Meuter, J. (2008), Social Franchising: A Way of Systematic Replication to Increase Social Impact, Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen, Berlin.
Dees, J.G., Anderson, B.B. and Wei-Skillern, J. (2004), "Scaling social impact", in Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 1, pp. 24–32.
Bradach, J. (2003). “Going to Scale The Challenge of Replicating Social Programs”, in Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 1, pp. 19–25.
Waitzer, J.M.P. and Paul, R. (2011), "Scaling Social Impact: When Everybody Contributes, Everybody Wins", in Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 143–155.
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Heinecke, A., Mayer, J. (2012). Strategies for Scaling in Social Entrepreneurship. In: Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K., Ernst, K. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-7093-0_10
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