Abstract
A social business responds to social problems usually ignored by institutions, mobilizing resources and generating employment. To gain more knowledge about this type of enterprise, the key factors that may influence social entrepreneurship are studied and compared with nonsocial entrepreneurship. This enables advances in the scientific literature and the design of more effective policies that encourage the creation of social enterprises. To achieve this goal, after delimiting the area of study, a sample of 25,631 entrepreneurs in 59 countries was used; 9792 of these are social entrepreneurs collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project in 2015 when a special issue focused on this topic. The results show that the majority of the factors that determine the decision to undertake nonsocial entrepreneurship also condition the individual to undertake social entrepreneurship, although the nature of their relationship or the intensity of the influence changes.
Highlights
In recent years, social entrepreneurship has gained importance both as a field of study and as a social phenomenon (Dacin et al 2011)
Sample and data collection In this paper, the individual is the unit of analysis; the data collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in 2015 is analyzed; 2015 was the year in which a special section was devoted to the study of the social entrepreneur
Model I corresponds to nonsocial entrepreneurship, while model II corresponds to social entrepreneurship
Summary
Social entrepreneurship has gained importance both as a field of study and as a social phenomenon (Dacin et al 2011). Despite the large amount of research (Sassmannshausen and Volkmann 2018), the academic community has recognized that many issues regarding the process of creating and developing social enterprises are unknown, are described as an unclear field of study, and are not fully legitimized and in need of scientific contributions (Hechavarría et al 2012)
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