Supporting Tables for "The Mission Drift Time Bomb: Mapping the Hidden Stages, Early Warning Signs, and Preventive Interventions in Social Enterprises" — A Systematic Literature Review

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This dataset contains seven supplemental tables supporting a systematic literature review on mission drift in social enterprises, published in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (Taylor & Francis). The review synthesises 42 peer-reviewed articles retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science (2015–2025), following PRISMA 2020 guidelines and assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) 2018. The central research hypothesis is that mission drift is not a singular failure event but a structured, multi-stage emergent process that can be mapped, anticipated, and interrupted through stage-specific preventive interventions. Table 3 presents the MMAT 2018 methodological quality assessment of all 42 included articles, covering study design classification and quality scores. It enables readers to verify the rigour and transparency of the inclusion process. Table 4 maps 34 causal factors of mission drift across ten thematic categories and three levels of analysis (macro, meso, micro), derived through NVivo 14 thematic coding. The relatively even distribution across categories — no single category exceeding 11.8% — is itself a substantive finding, indicating that mission drift has an architecture rather than a dominant cause. Table 5 catalogues 26 early warning indicators of mission drift across seven categories (Finance and Funding; Governance and Leadership; Human Resources; Operational and Practice; Measurement and Reporting; Tensions and Conflict; External Environment), enabling practitioners to deploy these as a diagnostic instrument before deviation becomes irreversible. Tables 6 and 7 jointly document the three-layer process of mission drift as a cascade of Triggering Factor Nodes (L1), Organisational Action Nodes (L2), and Outcome Nodes (L3), together with the directional relationships between layers (L1→L2 and L2→L3). These tables support the Sankey diagram (Figure 5 in the article) and allow readers to trace specific causal pathways from structural antecedents through organisational actions to outcomes. Tables 8 and 9 underpin the original six-stage emergence model of mission drift (Figure 6 in the article): Table 8 details the components of each stage — from hybrid organisational foundation through external and internal pressures, social-commercial tensions, gradual practice shifts, manifestation, and consequences — while Table 9 maps the inter-component relationships across stages, documenting how each stage reinforces the next in a decremental sequence. Data were gathered through systematic database searches, full-text screening by four independent researchers, thematic analysis using NVivo 14, and researcher triangulation to minimise interpretive bias. All tables are provided in editable format (.xlsx) and should be interpreted in conjunction with the article's Methods and Results sections. The dataset is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0; users may share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution.

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• University of Brawijaya

  East Java, Malang

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