VENTURING FOR OTHERS WITH HEART AND HEAD: HOW COMPASSION ENCOURAGES SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Miller, Toyah L.; Grimes, Matthew G.; McMullen, Jeffery S.; Vogus, Timothy J.
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Alberta; Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2010.0456
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 616-640
• 关键词: RATIONAL SELF-INTEREST; INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION; PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; empirical-analysis; decision-making; emotions; INFORMATION; legitimacy

摘要

Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a complex yet promising organizational form in which market-based methods are used to address seemingly intractable social issues, but its motivations remain undertheorized. Research asserts that compassion may supplement traditional self-oriented motivations in encouraging social entrepreneurship. We draw on research on compassion and prosocial motivation to build a model of three mechanisms (integrative thinking, prosocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating others' suffering) that transform compassion into social entrepreneurship, and we identify the institutional conditions under which they are most likely to do so. We conclude by discussing the model's contribution to and implications for the positive organizational scholarship literature, entrepreneurship literature, and social entrepreneurship literature.