Early Challenges of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs

Renko, Maija

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2012.00522.x

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“…Por ello sería interesante también contemplar y diferenciar en los estudios de emprendimiento, los tipos de prácticas emprendedoras a las que una persona estaría dispuesta a optar. Si se plantean ciertos elementos diferenciadores entre el emprendimiento comercial, más orientado a una idea de negocio, frente al emprendimiento social, orientado a la creación de valor social frente al personal (Austin, Stevenson, Wei-Skillern, 2006;Renko, 2012), también se pueden inferir estrategias de afrontamiento diferentes teniendo en cuenta su carácter social.…”

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El efecto de la conservación de recursos sobre la intención emprendedora en el contexto de crisis económica: el rol moderador de la autoeficacia y la creatividad

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Resumen: Este estudio plantea una línea de investigación del emprendimiento que incorpora el análisis de factores personales y del contexto socioeconómico actual en el marco de la Teoría de la Conservación de Recursos. Los objetivos del estudio fueron analizar el efecto que ejercen la pérdida, amenaza de pérdida y ganancia de recursos sobre la intención emprendedora, y determinar el papel moderador de la autoeficacia emprendedora y la percepción de la propia creatividad. Se realizó un estudio transversal en 278 estudiantes universitarios de posgrado. Se comprobó que la pérdida y la ganancia de recursos contribuyeron en la decisión de crear una empresa y que el efecto positivo de ambas variables fue mayor cuando se unía el efecto de la percepción creativa, siendo la autoeficacia emprendedora la variable que presentó mayor fuerza predictiva. Se concluye que la Teoría de la Conservación de Recursos constituye un soporte teórico que permite comprender el emprendimiento en el contexto de crisis económi-ca, si bien se precisa la realización de estudios que permitan clarificar y consolidar los resultados obtenidos, incorporando análisis prospectivos que contemplen, la estructura social, las estrategias de afrontamiento, la perspectiva de género y los tipos de conducta de emprendimiento. Palabras clave: estrés; autoeficacia emprendedora; creatividad; intención emprendedora; crisis económica. Title:The effect of conservation of resources on the entrepreneurial intention in the context of economic crisis: the moderating role of the selfefficacy and creativity. Abstract: This study presents a research line of entrepreneurship incorporating personal factors and current socio-economic context in the framework of the Conservation of Resources Theory. The objectives were to analyze the effect of the loss, threat loss, and gain of the resources on entrepreneurial intention and to determine the moderating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perception of own creativity. A cross-sectional study in 278 university postgraduate students was conducted. It was found that loss and gain of resources contributed in the decision to start a business, the positive effect of both variables was greater when the effect of the creative perception joined. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy showed more predictive power. It is concluded that the Conservation of Resources Theory is a theoretical support for the study of entrepreneurship in the context of economic crisis, however studies are needed to clarify and consolidate the results obtained, incorporating prospective analysis covering social structure, coping strategies, gender perspective and types of entrepreneurial behaviour.

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El efecto de la conservación de recursos sobre la intención emprendedora en el contexto de crisis económica: el rol moderador de la autoeficacia y la creatividad

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“…Empirical contributions typically focus on understanding the emergence of social enterprises (Renko, 2013;Seelos, Mair, Battilana, & Dacin, 2011;Stephan, Uhlaner, & Stride, 2015) or on intraorganizational aspects such as governance, identity management, and organizing processes (Battilana, Sengul, Pache, & Model, 2015;Mair et al, 2015;Pache & Santos, 2013). Fewer studies link social enterprise activities to PSC (examples in our review are L. Jones & Snelgrove, 2006;Perrini, Vurro, & Costanzo, 2010;Seelos & Mair, 2005).…”

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Organizations Driving Positive Social Change

Stephan

Patterson

Kelly

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Journal of Management

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Academic and practitioner interest in how market-based organizations can drive positive social change (PSC) is steadily growing. This paper helps to recast how organizations relate to society. It integrates research on projects stimulating PSC-the transformational processes to advance societal well-being-that is fragmented across different streams of research in management andAcknowledgments: The second and third authors contributed equally to this manuscript. The authors are grateful for the excellent friendly reviews and comments provided by Ian Macdonald, Andreana Drencheva, and Tima Bansal to previous versions of this manuscript. Tima Bansal, Pamela Laughland, Rob Briner, Jo Rick, and Our societies face growing challenges in areas such as public health, education, social inequality, and environmental pollution. Market-based organizations can play an important role in addressing these challenges by stimulating transformational processes to advance societal well-being, referred to in this paper as creating positive social change (PSC). Popular management concepts such as "shared value" (Porter & Kramer, 2011), "inclusive growth" (George, McGahan, & Prabhu, 2012), and "base of the pyramid" (BoP) markets (Prahalad & Hart, 2002) reflect this potential and associate a range of organizational activities with PSC. Firms such as Unilever or Walmart initiate PSC projects to "do good and well" (Bansal & DesJardine, 2014), social enterprises leverage market-based activities to more effectively alleviate societal challenges (Mair & Marti, 2006), and investors seek to instigate social change while generating economic returns (Mair & Hehenberger, 2014).Management research on these phenomena is on the rise but remains fragmented. It mainly focuses inward on organizational activities and rarely explores how these activities may have external effects stimulating societal well-being beyond organizational boundaries. The extensive research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) focuses largely on understanding why and under which conditions firms engage in socially responsible activity and how such activity affects their financial performance (Aguinis & Glavas, 2012;Carroll & Shabana, 2010). The increasingly popular research on social enterprises pays attention to possible tensions that arise from pursuing multiple and potentially competing goals (e.g., Besharov & Smith, 2014) and elaborates on their unique organizational structures, identity, and governance (Mair, Mayer, & Lutz, 2015; Wry & York, in press). Research on business activity at the BoP focuses on identifying new market opportunities (Prahalad & Hart, 2002), developing new business models (Seelos & Mair, 2007), and building inclusive markets (Mair, Marti, & Ventresca, 2012).The tendency to introduce and hang on to distinct labels to demark the uniqueness of research areas hinders building cumulative knowledge on market-based activity and PSC across these different research streams. And the inward focus of these research streams limits their contribution to unde...

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“…Similarly, social start-ups' founders initiated their business (Activities) based on either an idea or an opportunity. Choosing the right tools is another dilemma for founders (Sharir and Lerner, 2006;Renko, 2013). In this case, they used business planning tools to plan their activities; however their choice of tool depended on their conditions -e.g.…”

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Creation of ICT-Based Social Start-Ups in Iran: A Multiple Case Study

Salamzadeh

Arasti

Elyasi

2017

J. Enterprising Culture

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Despite the importance of social startups, their evolution is rarely investigated. Thus, in this manuscript, the emergence of ICT-based social start-ups is studied using a multiple case study research method. To do so, five social start-ups are selected using a combination of purposive and convenience sampling and studied in detail, based on Lanteri's (2015) model regarding creation of social enterprises. Eight cofounders are interviewed and data triangulation is employed by collecting data from both primary and secondary sources. Also, replication logic is considered to be able to generalize the findings. Moreover, in order to better understand the phenomenon, the history of social entrepreneurship and its evolutionary trend in Iran is elaborated. The findings show that the evolutionary trend of social entrepreneurship in Iran could be classified into three stages, i.e. ancient Persia, entrance of Islam, and emergence of entrepreneurship as a field. Finally, the findings are categorized in four categories: (i) process, (ii) social entrepreneur/founder, (iii) activities, and (iv) organization.

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Early Challenges of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs

Cited by 228 publications

References 66 publications

El efecto de la conservación de recursos sobre la intención emprendedora en el contexto de crisis económica: el rol moderador de la autoeficacia y la creatividad

El efecto de la conservación de recursos sobre la intención emprendedora en el contexto de crisis económica: el rol moderador de la autoeficacia y la creatividad

Organizations Driving Positive Social Change

Creation of ICT-Based Social Start-Ups in Iran: A Multiple Case Study

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