Comprehensive social competence and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of entrepreneurial tenacity

Nsereko, Isa

doi:10.1108/wjemsd-04-2020-0038

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“…It is also a person's influence to launch a social venture to advance social change through innovation (Ajzen, 1991). Social Entrepreneurial Intent (EI) is the willingness of individuals to perform entrepreneurial behaviour, to engage in social entrepreneurial venture creation or to establish new businesses (Hassan et al, 2016;Nabila et al, 2016;Ramayah et al, 2016;Nsereko, 2020). Intention even shows how hard a person is willing to try and how much effort he/she makes to perform a behaviour/action of starting a social entrepreneurial venture (Ajzen, 1991).…”

Section: Conditional Resources and Social Entrepreneurial Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conditional resource and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent

Nsereko

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this study is two-fold: to examine the relationship between conditional resources, social entrepreneurial intent and social entrepreneurial action and to test the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent in the relationship between conditional resources and social entrepreneurial action among social ventures in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a quantitative methodological approach were hypotheses were statistically tested using structural equation modelling based on survey data (n = 243) from community-based organization owner-managers in Uganda. Findings Results show that both conditional resources and social entrepreneurial intent are significantly associated with social entrepreneurial action. Results further indicate that social entrepreneurial intent partially mediates the relationship between conditional resources and social entrepreneurial action. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, this study provides a shred of initial empirical evidence on the relationship between conditional resources, social entrepreneurial intent and social entrepreneurial action using evidence from a developing African country – Uganda. Mostly, this study provides initial evidence of the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent in the relationship between conditional resources and social entrepreneurial action.

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Conditional resource and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent

Nsereko

2020

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“…Entrepreneurial resilience emphasizes the ability of an SME entrepreneur to recover and rebound under the impact of adverse events and grow against the trend in the process of reflection and improvement (Lafuente et al, 2019 ). Although flexibility, agility, and robustness are structurally similar to resilience, the former three are necessary to deal with everyday problems and changes, the resilience is seen as an essential success factor in coping with unexpected threats and responding to crisis changes (Nsereko, 2020 ).…”

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The effects of social capital on entrepreneurial resilience of SME from China: A moderated mediation model of entrepreneurial passion and Confucian traditional golden-mean thinking

Shan

Tian

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Small and medium-sized startups play a crucial role in a country's sustainable development. SMEs are at an early development stage, which means weaker institutional norms and successful paradigms, tending to suffer from exceptionally high failure rates because of many constraints, including a lack of resources and credit to access the core information. The higher the environmental uncertainty, the more likely that new start-ups rely on all kinds of social links for acquiring resources. As a critical ability to withstand and overcome obstacles, entrepreneurial resilience is an essential personal characteristic to ensure the sustainability of new ventures. The purpose of this study is to investigate the internal mechanism through which SME entrepreneurs' social capital affects entrepreneurial resilience. To reveal the internal mechanism, we propose a moderated and mediation model. Using survey data from SEM entrepreneurs in China, hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrapping model are adapted to test and verify mediation and moderation effects. The results show that social capital indeed positively influences entrepreneurial resilience directly and partly through the mediating effect of harmonious entrepreneurial passion and obsessive entrepreneurial passion. Moreover, findings suggest golden-mean thinking negatively moderates the relationship between obsessive entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial resilience yet positively moderates the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurial resilience. Based on these findings, we conclude that entrepreneurial resilience may be achieved more effectively through the complex internal process of social capital, entrepreneurial passion, and golden-mean thinking. Finally, the study proposes the theoretical and practical implications and suggestions for follow-up research.

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“…Hence, this research also places some emphasis on the social competence theory. Such an emphasis has recently been justified in developing country study by Nsereko (2020) who argued that social competence Moderating role of social competence is one of the most important skills to study among entrepreneurs as it is a cataclysmic skill that enables social entrepreneurial action for growth.…”

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Performance of Ghanaian women businesses community: the moderating role of social competence

Sallah¹,

Caesar

2021

JEC

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the moderating dynamics of social competence in the relationship between intangible resources and the performance of women businesses from an emerging market context. Developed economy literature provides ample evidence of a positive relationship between intangible resources and the performance of women business ventures. Little is known of the complexity of this orthodoxy in developing markets such as Ghana. In particular, this paper investigates the moderating role of social competence in the relationship between intangible resources available to women entrepreneurs and performance. Design methodology approach An exploratory sequential mixed method research design was used. First phase involved qualitative data collected through interviews, and the second phase was quantitative data collected from 264 participants. Content analysis and multiple regression analysis were used. Findings Social competence is important to the success of women businesses as it influences the outcome of entrepreneurial interactions and communications. Also, it positively moderated the relationship between organisational reputational capital (RC) and women business growth. On the flip side, it negatively moderated the relationship between human capital, social capital, individual RC and women business growth. Practical implications To sustainably grow their businesses, women entrepreneurs must ascertain the right level of social competence needed. The utilization of social competence at higher rather than lower levels could mean more costs and more training for which the business may not have immediate use. Originality value This paper advocates the need to improve the content of entrepreneurial training packages to include the reinforcement of social competency skills in terms of relationship management as this may be the key to the facilitation of access to resources for innovation and growth.

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Comprehensive social competence and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of entrepreneurial tenacity

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Conditional resource and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent

Conditional resource and social entrepreneurial action: the mediating role of social entrepreneurial intent

The effects of social capital on entrepreneurial resilience of SME from China: A moderated mediation model of entrepreneurial passion and Confucian traditional golden-mean thinking

Performance of Ghanaian women businesses community: the moderating role of social competence

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