Abstract:This paper examines the influence of founding team entrepreneurial experience (for‐profit and non‐profit) on social enterprise performance and also considers the contingent effects of two forms of external financial capital (commercial and philanthropic finance), through the lens of both human capital and institutional logics. Using a global dataset of social enterprises, we find that non‐profit entrepreneurial experience boosts social enterprise performance. Additionally, we find that having a complementary i… Show more
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