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After having analyzed each of the elements included in Phases I, II, and III, social entrepreneurs have gathered a significant amount of information about the business model they will use to design the scaling strategy. In this chapter we provide examples of established scaling strategies that social entrepreneurs might use when developing their strategy. This list is not exhaustive, but rather illustrates examples of market-based scaling strategies that can be constructed using our proposed three-phased approach. In this light, we will analyze three different scaling strategies: co-creation in low-income contexts, collective impact, and replicating business models. This chapter introduces one example case for each of these strategies.
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Author: Urs Jäger, Associate Professor INCAE Business School and Academic Director VIVA Idea.
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Authors: José Pablo Valverde Coto, Researcher VIVA Idea and PhD student University of St. Gallen; Felipe Symmes, Senior Researcher Viva Idea Researcher and PhD Candidate University of St. Gallen; and Urs Jäger, Associate Professor INCAE Business School and Academic Director VIVA Idea.
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Authors: Felipe Symmes, Senior researcher VIVA Idea and PHD Candidate University of Saint Gallen; Urs Jäger, Associate Professor INCAE Business School and Academic Director VIVA Idea; and Christina Katsianis, Research consultant VIVA Idea.
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Jäger, U., Symmes, F., Cardoza, G. (2020). Examples of Scaling Strategies. In: Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31160-5_6
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