Developing social entrepreneurship in rural areas: A path mediation framework

IF 1 3区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

International Sociology Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/02685809221095912

A. Atahau, Cheng-Wen Lee, D. D. Kesa, A. Huruta

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Abstract

Local wisdom is increasingly crucial to preserve rural societies’ self-confidence and solidarity spirits in boosting economic growth. Notwithstanding the success of microfinance groups in East Sumba, Indonesia, the problem related to a small capital base exists. In this respect, adhering to local wisdom likely develops social entrepreneurship to strengthen the microfinance group’s capital base. This research investigates how local wisdom affects social entrepreneurship and microfinance sustainability. Data are collected by distributing questionnaires to microfinance stakeholders and analyzing the partial least squares-structural equation model. The findings show that local wisdom plays an essential role in social entrepreneurship development to ensure the stability of microfinance. In other words, rural microfinance sustainability can perform the mediating role as hypothesized. It implies that policy-making by the local government related to social enterprise development and microfinance sustainability may consider local wisdom. Thus, all stakeholders need to create conducive environments to increase the development of social entrepreneurship.

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发展农村社会创业：路径中介框架

地方智慧对于保持农村社会在促进经济增长方面的自信和团结精神越来越重要。尽管印度尼西亚东苏门答腊的小额金融集团取得了成功，但资金基础小的问题仍然存在。在这方面，坚持当地智慧可能会发展社会企业家精神，以加强小额信贷集团的资本基础。这项研究调查了地方智慧如何影响社会创业和小额信贷的可持续性。通过向小额信贷利益相关者发放问卷并分析偏最小二乘结构方程模型来收集数据。研究结果表明，地方智慧在社会创业发展中发挥着至关重要的作用，以确保小额信贷的稳定。换句话说，农村小额信贷可持续性可以发挥假设的中介作用。这意味着，地方政府在制定与社会企业发展和小额信贷可持续性有关的政策时，可以考虑当地的智慧。因此，所有利益攸关方都需要创造有利的环境，以促进社会创业的发展。

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