Social Entrepreneurial Orientation Research Articles

The influence of social entrepreneurship orientation and competitive advantage on the performance of rural social enterprises

The influence of social entrepreneurship orientation and competitive advantage on the performance of rural social enterprises

MODERATING EFFECTS OF UTILITARIAN IDENTITY AND OTHER-REGARDING VALUES ON INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURES AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This paper intents to test the relationship between institutional pressure (regulatory, cognitive, and normative) and social entrepreneurship orientation in the presence of level of utilitarian identity, level of other-regarding values. The data collection was through a survey-based method from 270 social enterprises were participated. The comprehensive integrated model was designed to test the impact of institutional pressure (regulatory, cognitive, and normative) on social entrepreneurship orientation with moderating role of the level of utilitarian identity, level of other-regarding values. The findings of the study reveal that institutional pressure, level of utilitarian identity, and level of other-regarding values positively and significantly influences social entrepreneurship orientation. Furthermore, the level of utilitarian identity positively and significantly moderates the relationship between institutional pressure and social entrepreneurship orientation while, level of other-regarding values negatively and significantly moderates the relationship. In addition, the implications of the study and future directions are also discussed.

Social entrepreneurship orientation and institutional pressures: Role of level of utilitarian identity and level of other regarding values

This paper intent to test the relationship between institutional pressure (regulatory, cognitive, and normative) and social entrepreneurship orientation in the presence of level of utilitarian identity, level of other-regarding values. The data collection was through a survey-based method from 270 social enterprises that participated. The comprehensive integrated model was designed to test the impact of institutional pressure (regulatory, cognitive, and normative) on social entrepreneurship orientation with moderating role of the level of utilitarian identity, and the level of other-regarding values. The findings of the study reveal that institutional pressure, level of utilitarian identity, and level of other-regarding values positively and significantly influence social entrepreneurship orientation. Furthermore, the level of utilitarian identity positively and significantly moderates the relationship between institutional pressure and social entrepreneurship orientation while, the level of other-regarding values negatively and significantly moderates the relationship. This study provides the pathway to social entrepreneurial orientation to an organization currently operating social enterprises domain.

Unleashing the power of organizational social capital: exploring the mediating role of social entrepreneurship orientation in social enterprises' performances

PurposeThis study investigates the influence of organizational social capital (OSC) on the social and economic performance of social enterprises (SEs) in Greece and the mediating role of social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO) in these relationships.Design/methodology/approachA theoretical framework was developed integrating resource-based theory, OSC theory and behavioral entrepreneurship theory. The data were collected from 345 Greek SEs and structural equation modeling (SEM) with bootstrap analysis was employed to estimate path coefficients.FindingsThis study shows that OSC positively impacts SEs’ social and economic performance, while SEO mediates only the relationship between OSC and SEs’ social performance. This research offers insights for scholars, practitioners and policymakers in social entrepreneurship by highlighting the significance of OSC and SEO.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature on SEs by integrating resource-based theory, OSC theory and behavioral entrepreneurship theory, presenting a novel comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding SEs’ performances. Additionally, the study advances the understanding of SEO as a mediator in the relationship between OSC and SEs’ social and economic performance. The unique focus on the Greek context provides a valuable setting for examining the relationships among OSC, SEO and SEs’ performances.

An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Social Entrepreneurship Orientation on Business Survival during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Social Entrepreneurship Orientation on Business Survival during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Social entrepreneurial orientation and social value of nonprofit organisation during crises

This study investigates the effect of social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) on social value for nonprofit organisations (NPOs). SEO denotes a behavioural orientation and embodies a strategic entrepreneurial stance at the organisational level. NPOs practice SEO to ensure organisational sustainability due to resource constraints, especially during crises. The researchers gathered data from 159 NPOs registered under the Registrar of Society (ROS) in Malaysia through a survey questionnaire amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. For data analysis, we employed IBM SPSS 27 to gather organisational profiles. This study used the variance-based structural equation modelling approach via SMART PLS for hypothesis testing. This study treats SEO as a higher-order construct comprising five first-order dimensions of innovativeness, proactiveness, risk management, effectual orientation, and social mission orientation. The study's findings reveal that SEO significantly and positively influences social value, indicating that SEO improves the social service delivery of NPOs. This study contributes to the nonprofit literature by providing empirical evidence from the social resource-based view (SRBV) theory of the role of SEO on social value, specifically during the crisis. By understanding the role of SEO in value creation, NPOs and regulatory authorities can formulate more precise and impactful strategies to augment the social value of NPOs. Consequently, when NPOs remain sustained, they can continuously provide services to the affected and vulnerable community.

Social Entrepreneurial Orientation of Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations

Social Entrepreneurial Orientation of Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations

Building a scale to measure individual social entrepreneurship orientation (ISEO) of forest students in Latin America

Deforestation and poverty are problems that have gained the attention of governments, researchers, and international agendas. To fight these problems, the World Economic Forum suggested 15 transitions in three socio-economic systems that, if carried out, would allow the building of more resilient societies and generate up to 395 million jobs by 2030. Latin America (LA) has a great potential to implement transitions in the forest land and agriculture sector that will create jobs and enhance people's quality of life. The forestry sector of LA is mainly based on the timber market, and its contribution to the GDP is exiguous despite the region's natural richness. In addition, the region's university forest programs are characterized as timber oriented and have limited content on entrepreneurship and non-timber forest products concepts. Therefore, to implement the transitions suggested to create jobs and reduce poverty, there is a need to identify if forest students have the desire to engage in the sustainable forestry business. This study aimed to develop a scale to measure individual social entrepreneurship orientation; experts' interviews and a sample of 640 forest students from 13 countries of LA were used to create the items and the scale, respectively. A second sample of 1233 forest students from 10 countries was used to evaluate the scale. The final scale comprises 15 items in 6 dimensions: innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, ethics, universalism, and benevolence.

Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale

Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale

BARRIERS AND DRIVERS OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIA'S SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY WITH OWNERS AND MANAGERS

Social enterprises are established to accomplish a specific social purpose. They not only focus on maximizing profits but also the benefits to society and the environment. The profits made are in most instances used to fund the social programs they run. Recently, social enterprises have attracted much attention from the public as well as researchers. This is the focus of this study. The specific target of this study is social enterprises in Indonesia. Social enterprises are gaining traction in many counties, and Indonesia has not been left behind. Millennials in Indonesia are leading in creating businesses that are meant to create positive social and environmental impacts. Social enterprises in Indonesia need legitimacy. They need to be able to communicate their hybrid identities to stakeholders without fear of being rejected. To access the funds and skills they need, social enterprises need to show how they are performing so that the stakeholders understand. This study discusses three important issues regarding the performance of social enterprises in Indonesia. One is intellectual capital which is defined as knowledge that can be converted into value. It refers to the flow of knowledge within an organization, which is the sum of everything that people know that makes it operate efficiently. Another is the social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO), which refers to the combination of social missions with entrepreneurial actions to achieve social firms' sustainability. The third is dynamic capabilities, which refers to enabling companies to transform and change according to times. Through the development of these capabilities, the organization can achieve a solid last competitive advantage. Lastly, there is a competitive advantage which is the ability of a firm to perform better than others in the market. Interviews with 50 managers and owners of social enterprises in Indonesia have effectively covered factors affecting performance.

The predictive effect of relative intuition on social entrepreneurship orientation: How do exploratory and exploitative learning and personal identity interact?

This study complements the stream of psychology studies on the effects of an individual's intuition on strategic decisions and how it shapes behavioral tendencies by extending how these effects evolve social entrepreneurship orientation in social entrepreneurship. Theoretically, we establish the nexus between relative intuition and social entrepreneurship orientation as well as the moderating roles of exploratory and exploitative learning and personal identity. Empirical validation of these nexuses was based on a cross-section of 276 certified social enterprises in China. The findings indicate that social entrepreneurs' relative intuition has a positive association with social entrepreneurship orientation. Exploratory and exploitative learning positively mediate the nexus between relative intuition and social entrepreneurship orientation. In addition, personal identity positively moderates the effects of exploratory and exploitative learning on social entrepreneurship orientation. Subsequently, we found that the link between relative intuition and social entrepreneurship orientation strengthens as the social entrepreneurs' personal identity increases. In this light, we identify relative intuition as the foundation of exploratory and exploratory learning for the development of social entrepreneurship orientation. Similarly, we shed light on how personal identity positively facilitates the roles of these factors by arousing dedication to the processes/stages of the pursuit of social entrepreneurship orientation goal attainment.

Conceptualizing the Role of Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Triple Bottom Line in the Social Enterprise Context: Developing Country Perspective

Social entrepreneurship is becoming widely recognized as essential to developing economies and societies. However, we find that the lack of a clear and cohesive conceptualization for understanding the distinctive context and reliable role of social entrepreneurship is a challenging aspect. Furthermore, the research is lacking in developing country perspectives. Accordingly, this study argues that a social entrepreneurship conceptual model needs to be developed from a developing country perspective to advance the literature on the social entrepreneurship notion. Specifically, this study followed a qualitative research approach and conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 24 Sri Lankan social enterprises by adopting the maximum variation sampling technique. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Consequently, our model explicates how social entrepreneurial orientation leads to the triple bottom line through dynamic capability and social innovation. The proposed model anticipates that social entrepreneurial orientation alone cannot achieve the triple bottom line in social entrepreneurship. Thus, based on existing research evidence, we believe that the following constructs—social entrepreneurial orientation, dynamic capabilities, social innovations, and the triple bottom line—can be integrated to provide a solid conceptual model for social entrepreneurial ventures in developing countries.

Relationships Between Social Entrepreneurial Orientation and Social Work Management Competencies in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

ABSTRACT Social work managers face multiple challenges when seeking to create organizational environments that support community social outcomes. This study aims to provide a model of human services organizational management that includes social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO), and employs a multivariate regression analysis to identify relationships between SEO and social work management competencies using a nationally representative sample of nonprofits in Canada. Significant relationships were found between the SEO Scale (including social innovation, proactivity, risk-taking, and market engagement) and the Social Work Management Competencies Scale (including executive leadership, resource management, strategic management, and community collaboration). Further, organizational health significantly predicted resource management and strategic management, while revenue level significantly negatively predicted executive leadership. Multiple implications for findings are provided and a discussion is focused on applications for social work management.

Analyzing the effect of team exploratory and exploitative learning on Social entrepreneurship orientation

Analyzing the effect of team exploratory and exploitative learning on Social entrepreneurship orientation

Creative Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: Developing Hybrid Values to Achieve the Sustainable Performance of Traditional Weaving SMEs

This study explored creative social entrepreneurship in Indonesia. We investigate how traditional handweaving SMEs gain sustainable performance. This study employs a qualitative approach based on grounded research. Eight respondents were participated on data collection through interview and observation. The data were evaluated using open, axial, and selective coding to propose new concepts of hybrid values for traditional weaving SMEs. The findings show that the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of traditional weaving SMEs is characterised by their entrepreneurial values (creativity and social). Entrepreneurial orientation entails social proactivity towards community benefits, social innovation in protecting the environment and local resources, and market risk-taking to gain profit. The discussion develops the concept of creative and social entrepreneurial orientation as antecedent factors for sustainable performance. This study also examines in further detail the problems of generating sustainable performance. The outcomes of this study will assist traditional weaving SMEs in achieving sustainability in terms of their social, economic, and environmental performance.

Entrepreneurial university ecosystem’s engagement with SDGs: looking into a Latin-American University

ABSTRACT Sustainability themes have increasingly gained traction within academia and industry. The knowledge accumulation is at the development stage and remains more understanding about the phenomenon in the black box. Innovative sustainable initiatives are little known, especially in transforming individuals’ values, culture, and well-being. Universities are well-placed to contribute to this academic conversation as they seek solutions and responses to current grand societal challenges through their core activities (teaching, research, and engagement). A good example has been the recent development of disruptions by universities to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by these debates, this study theorizes/tests how an entrepreneurial university ecosystem contributes to the UN SDGs’ achievement through its core activities and social-entrepreneurial orientation. By adopting a retrospective case study of a Latin-American University, our study provides insights/implications into the configuration of university social entrepreneurial ecosystems and their sustainable contributions to the SDGs.

Framework de Mensuração do Empreendedorismo Social para Países em Desenvolvimento

ABSTRACT Objective: this study aims to propose and validate with experts a framework with elements for measuring social entrepreneurship for developing countries. Theoretical framework: social entrepreneurship is approached based on elements from the three main schools of thought: European, American, and of developing countries. Methods: the proposed framework was designed based on a literature review of entrepreneurship models indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases. The dimensions associated with social entrepreneurship and their potential analysis categories were identified, composing a preliminary framework of indicators validated by a panel of experts using the Delphi technique. Results: the model includes elements of entrepreneurship measurement related to the individual and organizational levels, composing four dimensions, namely: social entrepreneurial intention, social entrepreneurial orientation, processes, and outcomes. It shows that social entrepreneurship in developing countries depends on an orientation toward the social, which is reflected in the desire to solve society’s problems. Thus, in addition to economic value, it generates social and environmental value. Conclusions: among the study’s contributions, the development of a form of assessment for social entrepreneurship in a specific context stands out, since no models for measuring social entrepreneurship were found within this context. The results also tend to contribute to the advance of the field, given that it can become a tool, a measurement model that includes the main characteristic elements of both the entrepreneur and the social enterprise.

Institutional Pressure And Social Entrepreneurship Orientation: Their Impact On The Performance Of Social Enterprises

Social enterprises are organizations that have economic and social goals. However, the performance of the social enterprise is still not satisfactory. In this study, the researchers examined one of the social enterprises that is developing in Indonesia, namely Village Owned Enterprises (BUMDes). This study aim to evaluates the effect of institutional pressure and social entrepreneurial orientation on the social performance of the social enterprise. It looks at the impact of social performance on the social enterprise's financial performance. The population in this study is social enterprise BUMDes in Bengkalis Regency with a stratified random sampling technique. Respondents in this study were BUMDes managers. Data collection was carried out by sending questionnaires directly to BUMDes managers. A total of 103 respondents participated in this study. The data that has been analyzed using Warp PLS shows that institutional pressure and social entrepreneurial orientation have a positive effect on social performance, and have an effect on improving financial performance. This research has implications for supporting institutional theory and improving BUMdes performance

Corporate social entrepreneurial orientation in the hospitality and tourism industry: a religiosity perspective

PurposeThe major purpose of this research article is to empirically analyze a moderated-mediated model to comprehend the interrelationships between religiosity, life hardship, attitude toward social entrepreneurship (SE) and corporate social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO).Design/methodology/approachThe constructivist grounded theory method was used to analyze interviews, and partial least squares structural equation modeling was selected to analyze the developed nine hypotheses.FindingsBased on the structural model outcomes, the practicing religious believers reported a significantly higher level of corporate SEO and propensity for social proactiveness, innovativeness, risk-taking, socialness and persistence (dimensions of SEO) than the nonpracticing believers.Practical implicationsThis study provides the practical implication that social entrepreneurs with a higher degree of congruence with the prevailing religious institutionalized logic in a society have a higher inclination to create social value through corporate practices and operations.Originality/valueThis study presents an SEO scale that incorporates the dimensions of two SEO scales developed by Kraus et al. (2017) and Syrjä et al. (2019). To the best of the author’s knowledge, the applicability and generalizability of this scale were supported for the first time in the SE discipline, particularly tourism SE. This scale effectively captures more characteristics of SE, particularly in the face of inefficient political and institutional forms.

How does patriotism and institutional support affect the social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) in the presence of social valuation and experiential learning for social ventures

PurposeThe individuals take an active interest in society to change it into a better one. For this reason, this study aims to investigate the influence of patriotism with the institutional framework on social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO), which assists us in improving the social welfare activities with socially friendly business and business operations to maintain the existing organization position by engaging potential customers and starting a new social venture for gaining the institutional and external stakeholders support in the competitive environment.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the authors employed the quantitative offline survey approach to investigate the proposed relationship with 228 valid responses from entrepreneurial organizations holding social ventures as small or big projects in Pakistan.FindingsThis study’s findings revealed that patriotism positively affects SEO, and institutional support partially mediates the relationship between patriotism and SEO. While social valuation positively strengthens the relationship between patriotism and institutional support and patriotism and SEO. Likewise, experiential learning strengthens the positive relationship between institutional support and SEO.Practical implicationsThis study found that institutional support is vital in helping entrepreneurs to create institutional designs and strategies to cope with dynamic and socioeconomic problems. Moreover, this study benefits policymakers and government officials to make strategic decisions based on a sense of self-worth by adopting the opportunities to raise public awareness about social organizations' importance and expand social capital.Originality/valueThe previous literature addresses patriotism mainly in social entrepreneurship instead of SEO. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to explore and show particular ways of SEO to country growth.