The Motivation of Social Entrepreneurs: The Roles, Agendas and Relations of Altruistic Economic Actors

Christopoulos, Dimitrios; Vogl, Susanne

doi:10.1080/19420676.2014.954254

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“…Restrictions in resource mobilization generally lower the compensation ceilings for those engaged in social entrepreneurship versus those involved in commercial entrepreneurship. Consequently, pure social entrepreneurship is likely to appeal to individuals who are motivated more by altruistic than pecuniary factors (Christopoulos and Vogl ; Germak and Robinson ; Miller et al ). Conversely, pure commercial entrepreneurship is most likely to attract those who are driven by individual interest in financial compensation (Shane et al ).…”

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What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

Mars

Schau

2017

Rural Sociology

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Entrepreneurial activities are sometimes framed as market‐based strategies that compromise the integrity of the movement against the global agrifood system. Other times, scholars have argued that entrepreneurship is a critical component of local food system viability. This study helps reconcile these conflicting views through a qualitative exploration of the variations in the commercially and socially oriented features of local food entrepreneurship in the southeastern Arizona local food system. Researchers gathered data between August 2014 and December 2016 through semistructured interviews with and direct observations of 36 southeastern Arizona local food entrepreneurs. A conceptual continuum that articulates the variations between commercial and social entrepreneurship according to market condition, mission, resource mobilization, and performance measurement guides the exploration. The findings reveal commercial and social variations in local food entrepreneurship to be assorted, yet synergistic enactments of the economic, environmental, and social conditions and principles that characterize the southeastern Arizona local food system. The findings push the local food entrepreneurship narrative beyond the limitations of a rigid activist‐market dichotomy by illuminating the synergistic complexities that influence the form and function of local food systems. The article discusses implications for both local food practitioners and scholars.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

Mars

Schau

2017

Rural Sociology

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“…Whereas the former evaluate the similarity of members' vocabularies, the latter capture similarities in the ways members understand concepts. Then, the two types of dyadic similarity coefficients were put in two separate square matrices and multidimensional scaling (MDS), a technique conventional in formal analysis of culture (McLean, 1998;Ruef, 1999;Christopoulos and Vogl, 2015), was applied to plot each of these matrices so that geometric distances between nodes indicate cultural similarity between members. The results are presented in Figure 4.…”

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“…On the one hand, I use a combination of qualitative (interviews, written texts, interaction observations) and quantitative (sociometric survey) network data sources. On the other hand, I blend qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques (see Crossley and Edwards, 2016) in a mixed-method inductive version (see also Christopoulos and Vogl, 2015;Basov et al, 2018) of socio-semantic network analysis (Roth and Cointet, 2010;Basov and Brennecke, 2017;Hellsten and Leydesdorff, 2017;Saint-Charles and Mongeau, 2018). Firstly, I inductively map semantic networks as stable word associations in a multisource textual corpus of members' expressions coming from ethnographic studies of the collectives.…”

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The ambivalence of cultural homophily: Field positions, semantic similarities, and social network ties in creative collectives

Basov

2020

Poetics

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This paper utilizes a mixture of qualitative, formal, and statistical socio-semantic network analyses to examine how cultural homophily works when field logic meets practice. On the one hand, because individuals in similar field positions are also imposed with similar cultural orientations, cultural homophily reproduces 'objective' field structure in intersubjective social network ties. On the other hand, fields are operative in practice and to accomplish pragmatic goals individuals who occupy different field positions often join in groups, creatively reinterpret the field-imposed cultural orientations, and produce cultural similarities alternative to the position-specific ones. Drawing on these emergent similarities, the cultural homophily mechanism might stimulate social network ties between members who occupy not the same but different field positions, thus contesting fields. I examine this ambivalent role of cultural homophily in two creative collectives, each embracing members positioned closer to the opposite poles of the field of cultural production. I find different types of cultural similarities to affect different types of social network ties within and between the field positions: Similarity of vocabularies stimulates friendship and collaboration ties within positions, thus reproducing the field, while affiliation with the same cultural structures stimulates collaboration ties between positions, thus contesting the field. The latter effect is visible under statistical analysis of ethnographic data, but easy to oversee in qualitative analysis of texts because informants tend to flag conformity to their positions in their explicit statements. This highlights the importance of mixed socio-semantic network analysis, both sensitive to the local context and capable of unveiling the mechanisms underlying the interplay between the cultural and the social.

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“…For example, Tan, Williams, and Tan (2005) even used altruism in their definition of social entrepreneurship by stating that social entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs with altruistic behavior, who not only focus on maximizing profit but also benefit society. Also in other contexts, social entrepreneurs were often linked with altruism (Christopoulos and Vogl 2015;Roberts and Woods 2005).…”

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Applying Person‐Environment Fit Theory to Identify Personality Differences between Prospective Social and Commercial Entrepreneurs: An Explorative Study

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Kraiczy

Hack

2017

Journal of Small Business Management

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Research has started to investigate personality traits of social entrepreneurs because such traits in commercial entrepreneurs have been found to affect new venture creation/success. In this exploratory study, we apply the person-environment fit theory and analyze specific social entrepreneurial personality dimensions (i.e., altruism, empathic concern, personal distress, compassion), and classical entrepreneurial personality dimensions (i.e., need for achievement (nAch), entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), general self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity) to identify differences between prospective social and commercial entrepreneurs. Using a sample of 85 prospective entrepreneurs, results show that prospective social entrepreneurs differ from prospective commercial entrepreneurs in the personality dimensions of personal distress, nAch, ESE, and risk-taking propensity.

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The Motivation of Social Entrepreneurs: The Roles, Agendas and Relations of Altruistic Economic Actors

Cited by 67 publications

References 58 publications

What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

The ambivalence of cultural homophily: Field positions, semantic similarities, and social network ties in creative collectives

Applying Person‐Environment Fit Theory to Identify Personality Differences between Prospective Social and Commercial Entrepreneurs: An Explorative Study

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