Exploring the Determinants of Nascent Social Entrepreneurial Behaviour

Abstract

Following the emergence of social, environmental, and public health issues, this study analysed the determinants of nascent social entrepreneurial behaviour. This research investigated the effects of empathy and prior experience with social problems on nascent social entrepreneurial behaviour through social entrepreneurial self-efficacy, outcome expectations of social entrepreneurship, and perceived social support. Through utilising the quantitative survey method, this study gathered a total of 560 valid responses, comprising 258 Chinese respondents and 302 Taiwanese respondents. Outcome expectations and perceived social support positively influenced nascent social entrepreneurial behaviour for the Chinese sample, whereas social entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived social support positively influenced nascent social entrepreneurial behaviour for the Taiwanese sample. This research enriches the existing literature by taking account of social entrepreneurial behaviour, instead of merely analysing social entrepreneurial intentions.

Would customers of social enterprises become social entrepreneurs?

“…In the present study, nearly 1000 respondents were recruited. Although women comprised 55.1% of the sample, a proportion higher than that in the Taiwanese population, this was considered acceptable because other research has reported samples with similar proportions of women (Ip et al, 2022;. The demographics of the valid respondents are reported in Table 1.…”

Applying the stimulus-organism-response theory to investigate determinants of students’ social entrepreneurship: moderation role of perceived university support

“…That is also a reason why a body of prior studies have only focused on investigating the nature and determinants of social entrepreneurial intention (Hockerts, 2017;Hockerts, 2018;Paramita et al, 2022;Zaremohzzabieh et al, 2019;Chandra et al, 2021b). Nevertheless, social entrepreneurial intention does not always translate into social start-up behaviors (Ip et al, 2022;Akter et al, 2020), and scholars have identified an intention-behavior gap in social Applying the stimulusorganismresponse theory entrepreneurship (Rey-Martí et al, 2016;Muldoon et al, 2022). In other words, if would-be social entrepreneurs do not carry out social start-up activities and projects, although they have high initial intentions to become social entrepreneurs, then their fruitful social entrepreneurship processes are not actualized (Ip et al, 2022).…”

“…Nevertheless, social entrepreneurial intention does not always translate into social start-up behaviors (Ip et al, 2022;Akter et al, 2020), and scholars have identified an intention-behavior gap in social Applying the stimulusorganismresponse theory entrepreneurship (Rey-Martí et al, 2016;Muldoon et al, 2022). In other words, if would-be social entrepreneurs do not carry out social start-up activities and projects, although they have high initial intentions to become social entrepreneurs, then their fruitful social entrepreneurship processes are not actualized (Ip et al, 2022). It is, thus, important to advance our understanding of the so-called intention-behavior gap in social entrepreneurship (Thelken and de Jong, 2020;Muldoon et al, 2022).…”

Unraveling the effects of entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention: The moderating role of demographic characteristics

“…Ip et al. (2022) stated that the effects of prior experience and social entrepreneurial SE are still consistent predictors of behavior. The authors argued that prior experience boosts venture emergence through opportunity confidence, as experience leads to stronger opportunity appraisal abilities and more justifiable option feasibility judgments.…”

“…Previous experience in business ownership or management increases the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur or of developing EIs (Khan et al, 2019). Ip et al (2022)…”