Table 5 highlights several important insights for social enterprises. First, our findings reflect the important role performed by opportunity identification relationships. Not only do those relationships help identify social innovation opportunities, as noted previously, but they are most strongly associated with the innovation arising either from social enterprises working with partners or innovation from work conducted through partners. This first result is consistent with our interpretation of the opportunity identification function in which the social enterprise’s stakeholder relationships enable it to utilize its existing capabilities. The second result indicates a brokerage role being performed by the social enterprise as it is works through partners to implement the social innovation. We find that the implementation relationships used to develop skills, knowledge and expertise, do not result in innovation when the social enterprise attempts to innovate primarily by acting alone compared to either working with or through others. This supports the idea that social enterprises are too resource-constrained to adequately develop their capabilities to effectively implement social innovation that requires different or more resources. Our interviews and results point to a failure of the ‘‘lone’’ social enterprise to implement social innovation. Instead, we find that implementation relationships are more effective in creating innovation when working in partnership with others. This suggests that a capability for social enterprises is that of identifying and managing stakeholder relationships rather than developing its own operations to deliver the innovation in isolation. This finding supports Bridoux and Stoelhorst’s (2016) call to identify jointness of interests with stakeholders as a route through which value (in our case social innovation) can be created.