When Giving is Good for Encouraging Social Entrepreneurship

Abstract

We develop a cognitive-affect model of social entrepreneurship that begins with empathy (i.e. perspective taking and empathic concern) and progresses through prosocial behavior to social entrepreneurship intention. We further propose two contingencies – namely entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and exploitation - that moderate the proposed relationships. We verify theses effects with a sample of 537 respondents. Results suggest that prosocial behavior mediates the relationship between empathy (perspective taking and empathic concern) and social entrepreneurial intention. We also find that opportunity evaluation and opportunity exploitation moderate this mediating pathway.

Sociocultural factors and social entrepreneurial intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary evidence from developing countries

“…Similarly, other studies concluded that those less likely to feel compassion for others demonstrate significant levels of visceral arousal, increasing their sense of vulnerability and reducing their SE (Bacq & Alt, 2018 ; Ernst, 2011 ). Likewise, those with high empathic care develop specific abilities to help others in need via SEI (Barton et al, 2018 ; Le et al, 2020 ; Rambe & Ndofirepi, 2019 ). In addition, other studies have confirmed that EM is the mechanism by which prior experience with social problems leads to SEI (Hockerts, 2018 ; Ip et al, 2018 ; Sousa-Filho et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…The authors observed that prosocial tendency promoted entrepreneurial intention. This is because individuals who have suffered trauma have a strong desire to help others, and the desire motivates individuals to solve other people’s difficulties by starting businesses ( Le et al, 2020 ). Previous studies have documented that entrepreneurs’ prosocial intentions contribute to entrepreneurial intention and opportunity identification ( Al-Harasi et al, 2021 ).…”

“…Empirical studies have shown that the prosocial tendency can play a mediating role in empathy forecasting entrepreneurial intention ( Tiwari et al, 2020 ), and it has also demonstrated mediation effects in other empirical studies ( Zhu and Akhtar, 2014 ; Carlo et al, 2016 ). Altogether, the college students who have undergone coronavirus-induced traumatic events may develop a positive attitude toward interpersonal relationships, display greater prosocial tendencies, and thus have a strong desire to start their businesses ( Le et al, 2020 ). Therefore, we propose the following hypothesis (H3):…”

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