AbstractThis paper applies the assumptions of self-determination theory to study social entrepreneurial intention. We suggest that motivational forces, identified as autonomous and controlled, affect an individual’s intention to start a social venture. The study extends the social entrepreneurial intention research by examining the effect of prosocial and intrinsic motivations on an individual’s inclination to become a social entrepreneur and by testing the role of gender. Prosocial and intrinsic motivations are found to positively affect social entrepreneurial intention of individuals. Furthermore, females have demonstrated to be more influenced by the combination of motivational factors compared to males.

This article explores the influence of a host country's conditions on foreign equity investment decisions made by China‐based firms using the assumptions of the institutional theory and transaction cost approach. We use multinomial logit regression to analyze a sample of 1,018 cross‐border investments by Chinese firms categorized into majority acquisitions, minority acquisitions, joint ventures (JVs), and venture capital. According to our findings, Chinese investors prefer to conduct foreign direct investment in the same industry. This, in turn, highlights their desire to gain market influence and learn or obtain strategic knowledge and resources. Furthermore, taxation is proved to encourage the establishment of foreign JVs. The interaction between the host country's tax levels and majority acquisitions in the same industry reveals the concern of Chinese investors with after‐tax returns and influence in the new market.

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This study investigates the factors affecting the output of authors' cooperation. This cooperation can have a crucial role in the development of economics and technology in different fields. The investigated factors can create outputs that are more innovative and lead to better performance of intra-alliance and inter-alliance networks. The focus of this study is on transferring or exchanging intra information resources at the ego (small groups embedded in a network) and dyad levels of cooperation (individuals embedded in a group) shaped as an egocentric network using social network theory. The theory explains the effect that the strength of interpersonal ties at the dyad level has on knowledge exchange by considering how redundant information can be when it is received by an ego in networks. The authors of this paper demonstrate differences of information diffusion depending on the strength of interpersonal ties created by first authors. This study considered results of 206 studies in two areas of social science (economics and tourism) through an examination of quantitative data extracted from the Web of Science using the Histcite software. Amos was used for testing mediation effects, and SPSS version 23 was used to analyze the data via Hierarchal Learner Modeling (HLM) methodology.