Social entrepreneurs' venture launch intention: exploring the role of cognitive determinants

Chakraborty, Tanusree; Ganguly, Madhurima; Mishra, Nandita

doi:10.1504/ijbg.2021.117349

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“…For instance, studies have confirmed these entrepreneurs have considerable levels of altruism (Riedo et al, 2019), which often also bears close connection to sustainability principles similarly to social entrepreneurs (Kimuli et al, 2018). In this sense, our research further confirms this altruistic trend with social entrepreneurs similarly to what other studies found (Chakraborty et al, 2021; Petrovskaya & Mirakyan, 2018), that is, the fact that social entrepreneurs are prone to altruism, but our study advances with it as our research question also investigates SEI from volunteers, which although it appears to be likely trend, it has not been properly explored by the previous studies cited above.…”

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“…In this sense, regarding altruism, previous studies have demonstrated that regular entrepreneurs are also prone to it in similar levels when compared with their socially entrepreneurial counterparts (Jeon, 2018), a feature guiding both to tackle social problems (Mathias et al, 2017). It has also been proven that regular entrepreneurs commonly tie together altruism and concerns with sustainability issues (Vuorio et al, 2018), another characteristic also found in social entrepreneurs (Chakraborty et al, 2021).…”

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Do Volunteers Intend to Become Social Entrepreneurs? The Influence of Pro-Social Behavior on Social Entrepreneurial Intentions

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This article examines the influence of pro-social behavior on social entrepreneurial intentions (SEI). Drawing on theory of planned behavior, entrepreneurship, and behavioral psychology literatures, we examine the influence of volunteers’ traits and behavior on SEI. Our research adds two unexplored antecedents to previous studies, volunteers’ altruism, and religion. From a sample of 423 volunteers, our model shows that self-efficacy, perceived social support, opportunity recognition, and altruism, influence volunteers’ SEI, while moral obligation, religion, and empathy were not significant. Thus, without entrepreneurial characteristics such as self-efficacy and opportunity recognition, volunteers are unlikely to engage in social entrepreneurship. Given that altruism can be triggered by contrasting drivers (e.g., self-interest or selflessness), these differences open up a new venue for further studies on volunteers’ traits and SEI. We also suggest that it will be critical to further address the effect of contextual factors on the role of empathy and moral obligation.

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