Enabling social entrepreneurship: examining the impact of state, market and religious factors
ISSN: 0025-1747
Article publication date: 11 April 2023
Issue publication date: 22 May 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The study examines how the interactions among three prominent institutional logics—state, market and religion—fundamentally shape the patterns of individuals’ engagement in social entrepreneurship (SE).
Design/methodology/approach
The study develops a configurational theoretical framework and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses by gathering data on social ventures from 35 countries from the World Values Survey and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
Findings
The results show that the prevalence of social entrepreneurial ventures is enabled by different combinations of logics of action, governance mechanisms, strength of religious beliefs and religious pluralism.
Originality/value
This research reveals that the relationship between institutional logic profiles and SE is contingent on the coherence between different institutional logics.
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Acknowledgements
The authors express their gratitude to Dr. Brandon Randolph-Seng and two anonymous reviewers for their invaluable input and feedback.
Citation
Amini Sedeh, A., Caiazza, R., Moayed, N. and Moeini Gharagozloo, M.M. (2023), "Enabling social entrepreneurship: examining the impact of state, market and religious factors", Management Decision, Vol. 61 No. 6, pp. 1754-1772. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-02-2022-0155
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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