Beyond the Moral Portrayal of Social Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Approach to Who They Are and What Drives Them

Bacq, Sophie; Hartog, Chantal; Hoogendoorn, Brigitte

doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2446-7

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“…Earlier research also operationalizes entrepreneurship in terms of these so-called nascent entrepreneurs and owner-managers of young businesses (Bacq et al 2013(Bacq et al , 2016Davidsson 2006;Johnson et al 2006;Van der Zwan et al 2012. We select exactly these individuals for our analysis for a second reason.…”

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

2017

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Entrepreneurs who start a business to serve both self-interests and collective interests by addressing unmet social and environmental needs are usually referred to as sustainable entrepreneurs. Compared with regular entrepreneurs, we argue that sustainable entrepreneurs face specific challenges when establishing their businesses owing to the discrepancy between the creation and appropriation of private value and social value. We hypothesize that when starting a business, sustainable entrepreneurs (1) feel more hampered by perceived barriers, such as the institutional environment and (2) have a different risk attitude and perception than regular entrepreneurs. We use two waves of the Flash Eurobarometer survey on entrepreneurship (2009 and 2012), which contains information on start-up motivations, start-up barriers, and risk perceptions of approximately 3000 (prospective) business owners across 33 countries. We find that sustainable entrepreneurs indeed perceive more institutional barriers in terms of a lack of financial, administrative, and informational support at business start-up than regular entrepreneurs. Further, no significant differences between sustainable and regular entrepreneurs are found in terms of their risk attitudes or perceived financial risks. However, sustainable entrepreneurs are more likely to fear personal failure than regular entrepreneurs, which is explained by their varied and complex stakeholder relations. These insights may serve as an important signal for both governments and private capital providers in enhancing the institutional climate.

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

2017

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“…The existing social entrepreneurship literature focusses on the importance of other-regarding values and prosocial-motivation of individuals as determinants of social entrepreneurship (e.g., Miller et al, 2012;Renko, 2013). The specific skills and broader abilities needed to act upon those values have been rarely considered (exceptions include: Bacq et al, 2014;Parker, 2008). Yet an occupational choice of social entrepreneurship is not necessarily purely driven by values: an individual characterised by other-regarding values may follow a commercial project and realise his/her values outside that project, say by philanthropic giving (Mickiewicz et al, 2016).…”

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Human Capital in Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship

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We advance research on human capital and entrepreneurial entry and posit that, in order to generate value, social entrepreneurship requires different configurations of human capital than commercial entrepreneurship. We develop a multilevel framework to analyse the commonalities and differences between social and commercial entrepreneurship, including the impact of general and specific human capital, of national context and its moderating effect on the human capital-entrepreneurship relationship. We find that specific entrepreneurial human capital is relatively more important in commercial entrepreneurship, and general human capital in social entrepreneurship, and that the effects of human capital depend on the rule of law.

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“…One major argument is that the motive to engage in social entrepreneurship must not necessarily be morally obliged. The motive may involve less altruistic reasons including personal fulfilment, such as the desire for status, recognition, respect, and friendship (Bacq, Hartog, & Hoogendoorn, 2016;Mair & Marti, 2006). Another possible reason is that perception matters.…”

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Beyond the Moral Portrayal of Social Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Approach to Who They Are and What Drives Them

Cited by 168 publications

References 83 publications

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

Human Capital in Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship

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