Individual-level Resources and Social Entrepreneurship: The Effect of National Institutional Context

Abstract

The phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, defined as an entrepreneurial activity with the explicit objective to address societal issues, has attracted the attention of policy-makers and practitioners around the world. There has been a significant growth in the number of social enterprises around the world. Despite growing interest in the phenomena, academic research is still at a stage of infancy. While the prominence of social enterprises varies across countries, we know very little about how the national institutions of countries influence social enterprises. Recent literature calls for research to understand how institutional context in a country supports or discourages individual investment of resources towards starting a social enterprise...