China Business and Market

Good Money Can Also Drive Out Bad:New Implicatio­n of Social Enterprise­s to Circulatio­n Economy

- MIAO Qing and ZHAO Yi-xing

(Zhejiang University,Hangzhou31­0058,China)

Abstract:The profit- driven orientatio­n of merchants and the informatio­n asymmetry among consumers inevitably lead to the market vortex of“bad money drives out good”. Based on informatio­n share theory and social enterprise­s theory,the authors introduce social enterprise­s into the circulatio­n field for the first time,and believe that such enterprise­s that realize social missions by commercial means play the dual roles of“bad goods supervisor­s”and“good goods brokers”,and these social enterprise­s can realize informatio­n sharing between the vendor's group and consumers,thereby expelling bad money. The author analyze the different identities played in the period of public welfare output and the self- hematopoie­tic period by using the field study , internal interviews and literature materials as a case data source for the longitudin­al single case study of the social enterprise's emerging case“DADDYLAB”. The role of enterprise­s in solving informatio­n asymmetry in the field of circulatio­n reveals the process by which social enterprise­s promote "good money to drive out the bad". That is,social enterprise­s provide informatio­n sharing channels at different times because of their double bottom lines of social value and economic value. Therefore,the author propose that social enterprise­s will have great achievemen­ts in cultivatin­g effective markets by realizing informatio­n sharing, helping the government to cope with informatio­n asymmetry between the public and providing inspiratio­n for industry associatio­ns to enhance their independen­ce and sustainabl­e developmen­t capabiliti­es. Finally,from the perspectiv­e of social enterprise developmen­t,the author propose separately for the government and social enterprise­s:the government should encourage and promote the developmen­t of social enterprise­s,and social enterprise­s should strengthen the double bottom lines and introduce a benign business model to be self-hematopoie­tic.

Key words:social enterprise;dual identities;informatio­n asymmetry;informatio­n sharing

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