TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Characterization of Social Entrepreneurs
T2 - A Comparative Study
AU - Bargsted, Mariana
AU - Picon, Monserrat
AU - Salazar, Alondra
AU - Rojas, Yenny
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Social entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest that demands empirical studies on different aspects. This is an exploratory study aimed at identifying a distinctive psychosocial profile of social entrepreneurs (SE). We conducted a factorial study in which we distinguished social entrepreneurs (SE), volunteers (VOL), philanthropists (PHI), and commercial entrepreneurs (CE) in several psychosocial variables: personal values, entrepreneurship orientation (proactivity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, risk tendency, and control locus), social motivation, empathy orientation, and career identity. Our working hypothesis was that social entrepreneurs present a particular profile related to values of benevolence and self-direction, high entrepreneurship orientation, ability on taking perspective (empathy), a social motive similar to altruism, and career identity based on service and entrepreneurship. We found evidence to maintain our hypothesis and it was possible to characterize social entrepreneurs. The implications of these findings are discussed in this report.
AB - Social entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest that demands empirical studies on different aspects. This is an exploratory study aimed at identifying a distinctive psychosocial profile of social entrepreneurs (SE). We conducted a factorial study in which we distinguished social entrepreneurs (SE), volunteers (VOL), philanthropists (PHI), and commercial entrepreneurs (CE) in several psychosocial variables: personal values, entrepreneurship orientation (proactivity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, risk tendency, and control locus), social motivation, empathy orientation, and career identity. Our working hypothesis was that social entrepreneurs present a particular profile related to values of benevolence and self-direction, high entrepreneurship orientation, ability on taking perspective (empathy), a social motive similar to altruism, and career identity based on service and entrepreneurship. We found evidence to maintain our hypothesis and it was possible to characterize social entrepreneurs. The implications of these findings are discussed in this report.
KW - Social entrepreneurs
KW - altruism
KW - career
KW - social motives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887157489&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19420676.2013.820780
DO - 10.1080/19420676.2013.820780
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887157489
SN - 1942-0676
VL - 4
SP - 331
EP - 346
JO - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
JF - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
IS - 3
ER -