Social enterprises are reliant on a range of different types of stakeholder relationship to support them through the social innovation process, but it is at the implementation phase that social enterprises are most in need of support, requiring help in building capabilities through cooperation. Through these linkages, social enterprises should be able to adapt and configure their capabilities to develop social innovation, despite changes in resource availability. Such interactions emphasize the need for social enterprises to manage their stakeholder relationship-building capabilities as social enterprises are constantly required to integrate, reconfigure, renew and recreate their resources and capabilities in response to the changing social landscape and fluctuating resource base.