Societal Ethics and Social Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Cross-Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI:10.1177/1069397119865523

Saurav Pathak, Etayankara Muralidharan

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Abstract

Using multilevel modeling and data from 26 countries that include 93,439 individual-level responses on social entrepreneurship for the year 2015, we seek to understand how societal-level ethical orientations impact the likelihood of individuals engaging in social entrepreneurship. We develop a multidimensional representation of societal ethics, in that we draw close parallels between the three institutional pillars—normative, cognitive, and regulatory—with three forms of ethics and use this understanding to predict their effects on the demand for and supply of social entrepreneurs. We find that low behavioral ethics (normative ethics) at the societal level provides opportunities for individuals to become social entrepreneurs. Furthermore, while unselfishness (cognitive ethics) motivates individuals to become social entrepreneurs, high public-sector ethics (regulatory ethics) provides the institutional support for such entrepreneurs to thrive. We contribute to cross-cultural comparative entrepreneurship by providing ethical antecedents of social entrepreneurship through a deeper understanding of the influence of ethics as national-level institutions.

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社会伦理与社会创业：跨文化比较

利用来自26个国家的多层次建模和数据，包括2015年93439个个人层面的社会创业反应，我们试图了解社会层面的道德取向如何影响个人参与社会创业的可能性。我们发展了社会伦理的多维表征，因为我们将三个制度支柱——规范、认知和监管——与三种形式的伦理密切相似，并利用这种理解来预测它们对社会企业家需求和供给的影响。我们发现，社会层面的低行为伦理（规范伦理）为个人成为社会企业家提供了机会。此外，虽然无私（认知伦理）激励个人成为社会企业家，但高公共部门伦理（监管伦理）为这些企业家的发展提供了制度支持。我们通过更深入地理解作为国家级机构的伦理影响，提供社会创业的伦理前因，为跨文化比较创业做出贡献。

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Cross-Cultural Research SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

5.00

自引率

8.00%

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期刊介绍： Cross-Cultural Research, formerly Behavior Science Research, is sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) and is the official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. The mission of the journal is to publish peer-reviewed articles describing cross-cultural or comparative studies in all the social/behavioral sciences and other sciences dealing with humans, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, human ecology, and evolutionary biology. Worldwide cross-cultural studies are particularly welcomed, but all kinds of systematic comparisons are acceptable so long as they deal explicity with cross-cultural issues pertaining to the constraints and variables of human behavior.