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Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management (2024)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J., & Muñoz, P. (2024). Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management. Organization, 31(7), 1113-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231196102

Despite long-standing criticisms of the paradigm, New Public Management (NPM) retains a strong influence over organizations in public administration. Social Impact Bonds (SIB) are an outcomes-oriented investment entity which has emerged from NPM with... Read More about Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management.

Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context (2024)
Journal Article
Newbery, R., McKague, K., Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2024). Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12826

This paper proposes and tests a new conceptual framing for franchisee performance that draws on institutional complexity to explore the interaction of corporate, market, and relational logics of performance. Extant research draws on corporate and mar... Read More about Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context.

Entrepreneurial Finance and Institutional Logics in an Emerging Economy (2024)
Journal Article
Worakantak, J., Newbery, R., & Kimmitt, J. (2024). Entrepreneurial Finance and Institutional Logics in an Emerging Economy. International Small Business Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426241240136

Entrepreneurs raise money from multiple funding sources over time, however studies of entrepreneurial finance typically focus on a dyadic view based on Global North institutional scaffolds. Taking a contextualised approach that understands funding as... Read More about Entrepreneurial Finance and Institutional Logics in an Emerging Economy.

Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation (2023)
Journal Article
FitzGerald, C., Fraser, A., Kimmitt, J., Knoll, L., & Williams, J. (2023). Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation. International Public Management Journal, 26(3), 329-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2170504

A decade after the launch of the world’s first social impact bond (SIB) at Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough in England, a further 250 SIBs have been developed in over 30 countries raising over $750 m (USD) of capital and serving some 1.7 million peo... Read More about Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation.

Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery (2023)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., Kimmitt, J., & Spigel, B. (2024). Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery. Small Business Economics, 62(2), 607-628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00772-4

This study explores how entrepreneurs “do” contexts in peripheral areas. Through the examination of changes in roles, practices, and relationships across peripheral areas in Chile, we found that substantive transformations result from the momentary r... Read More about Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery.

Place in entrepreneurial storytelling: A study of cultural entrepreneurship in a deprived context (2023)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J., Kibler, E., Schildt, H., & Oinas, P. (2024). Place in entrepreneurial storytelling: A study of cultural entrepreneurship in a deprived context. Journal of Management Studies, 61(3), 1036-1073. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12912

We extend the cultural entrepreneurship perspective by investigating how entrepreneurs in deprived contexts gain legitimacy by leveraging proprietary and public places in their entrepreneurial storytelling. Inspired by the sociology of place, we pres... Read More about Place in entrepreneurial storytelling: A study of cultural entrepreneurship in a deprived context.

Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action (2022)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J., Mandakovic, V., & Muñoz, P. (2022). Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 28(6), 1391-1413. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-07-2021-0556

Purpose. Social entrepreneurs engage in action because they want to solve social problems. Consequently, it is expected to see more social entrepreneurship in contexts with the most severe social problems. This paper argues that this is an oversimpli... Read More about Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action.

Data for outcome payments or information for care? A sociotechnical analysis of the management information system in the implementation of a social impact bond (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, D., Wilson, R., Martin, M., Lowe, T., Kimmitt, J., Gibbon, J., & French, M. (2020). Data for outcome payments or information for care? A sociotechnical analysis of the management information system in the implementation of a social impact bond. Public Money & Management, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1714306