UMass Boston

Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Hybrid Organizations, Institutional Entrepreneurship

PhD, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)

Masters in Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts, USA)

Bachelors Degree, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

• Dorado, S., Antadze, N., Purdy, J., & Branzei, O. (2022). Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges. Business & Society, 61(5), 1242–1281.
• Dorado, S., Chen, Y., Prado, A. M., & Simon, V. (2021). Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises. Journal of Business Ethics, 21(1), 1–20.
• Dorado, S. (2020). Hybrid Agency: Sheltered Workshops (1941–2019). In M. L. Besharov & B. C. Mitzinneck (Eds.), Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises (Vol. 69, pp. 237–270). Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Dorado, S. and P.D. Fernandez. (2019). "An institutional Framework to the Scaling up of Inclusive Social Innovations: The Case of La Salada." Handbook of Inclusive Innovation eds. Gerry George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 266-82.
• Van Wijk, J., Zietsma, C., Dorado, S., de Bakker, F. G., & Marti, I. (2019). Social innovation: Integrating micro, meso, and macro level insights from institutional theory. Business & Society.
• Dorado, S. (2015). Microfinance re-imagined: personal banking for the poor. In T. Baker & F. Welter (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship (pp. 179–192). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Carré, F., Herranz Jr, J., & Dorado, S. (2014). Alternative Staffing Organizations as Innovations in Labour Market Intermediation. Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work, 174.
• Dorado, S., E. Raufflet, and D. Shaffer. (2014). DePaul Industries in 2012: Financing Growth in a Social Venture. Case Research Journali 34 (4).
• Dorado, S. (2013). Small groups as context for institutional entrepreneurship: An exploration of the emergence of commercial microfinance in Bolivia. Organization Studies, 34 (4): 533-557.
• Dorado, S. and M. Ventresca. (2013). Crescive entrepreneurship in complex social problems: Institutional conditions for entrepreneurial engagement. Journal of Business Venturing, 28: 69-82.
• Dorado, S. and D. Shaffer. (2011). Governance among Confounding Logics: The Case of DePaul Industries. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2(1): 27–5.
• Battilana, J. and S. Dorado. (2010) Organization building amid multiple institutional logics: The case of commercial microfinance organizations." Academy of Management Journal, 53:6: 1419-1440.
• Dorado, S. D.E. Giles Jr., & T. Welch. (2009) Delegation of coordination and outcomes in cross-sector partnerships: The case of service learning partnerships. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 38, 3: 368-391.
• Dorado, S. (2006). Social entrepreneurial ventures: Different values so different process of creation, Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, 11, 4: 319-343.
• Dorado, S. and R. Molz. (2005). Board of Directors and Industry Life Cycle: The Case of Microfinance organizations in Bolivia. Journal of Development Entrepreneurship. 10, 2: 99-121.
• Dorado, S. (2005). Institutional Entrepreneurship, partaking, and convening. Organization Studies, 26, 3: 383-413.
• Dorado, S. and D.E. Giles Jr. (2004). Service-Learning partnerships paths of engagement. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 11, 1: 25-37.
• Dorado, S. and P. Vaz. (2003). Conveners as champions of collaboration in the public sector: A case from South Africa. Public Administration and Development 23, 141-150.
• Dorado, S. and R. Molz. (1998). Privatization: The Core Theories and Missing Middle. International Review of Administrative Science, 64:4:583-609.

Honors/Awards

• Global Fulbright for research in Argentina and South Africa (2019/2020)
• Carolyn Dexter Award to the Best International Paper, Academy of Management Conference (2010)
• Radcliffe College/ Harvard, USA.  Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow (1998, 99)
• La Caixa, Spain. Scholarship to conduct post-graduate studies in United States (1991–93)

Classes taught

Strategy, Tackling Grand Social and Environmental Challenges, Business in Society, Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics.

Research Interests

Social entrepreneurship (in the areas of employment and poverty alleviation). Grassroots capitalism

Professional activities

• Member Board of Directors: The DPI Group
• Senior Editor Organization Studies
• Guest Co-Editor. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Topic: Big picture approaches to the impact of social innovations
• Guest Co-Editor. Journal of Management Studies. Special Issue Beyond Hybridity: Addressing complex social and environmental problems through multi-level processes
• Guest Co-Editor. Journal of Business Ethics. Special theme issue. Abilities and ableism as ethical dilemmas of organizing
• Member of the advisory board of Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
• Member Academy of Management