Institutions and social entrepreneurship: The role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stephan, Ute; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Stride, Christopher
• 署名单位: Aston University; Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School; University of Sheffield
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.38
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 308-331
• 关键词: social entrepreneurship; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; institutional void; Cultural values; comparative entrepreneurship; Social capital

摘要

We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (post-materialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital) institutions in a multilevel study of 106,484 individuals in 26 nations. We test opposing propositions from the institutional void and institutional support perspectives. Our results underscore the importance of resource support from both formal and informal institutions, and highlight motivational supply side influences on SE. They advocate greater consideration of institutional configurations in institutional theory and comparative entrepreneurship research.