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Social Entrepreneurship Intention: Mindfulness Towards a Duality of Objectives
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Chinchilla, A. s.,Garcia, M.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Springer Science + Business Media
- 출판년도2017
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기HUMANISTIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
- 발행사항Vol.1No.2[2017]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN2366-603X
- 소개/요약Social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon that has recently attracted the attention of scholars. It has been noted that social entrepreneurs develop skills that allow them to successfully cope with current challenges in both social and business settings. Given that attention to dual objectives requires greater focus and awareness, we suggest that mindfulness is an important characteristic of social entrepreneurship intention, along with entrepreneurial training and volunteering experience. This paper explores these relationships through a pilot study with 184 online surveys. The results show that there are positive relationships between mindfulness and entrepreneurship training and social entrepreneurship intention. Globalization is an important phenomenon that continues to open new frontiers for business and society, yet countries continue to recover from a global crisis and from market imbalances that led not only to a social security crisis but also to economic struggle (International Labour Organization 2012). Consequently, it has been suggested that social entrepreneurship offers a perspective on how to cope effectively with these new situations, since social entrepreneurs are said to understand and address the needs of society while also recognizing opportunities to generate profits (Smith et al. 2012). Regarding the study of social entrepreneurship and the dual objectives that it seeks to fulfill (social and economic), Dees (1998) describes the basic understanding that one must have to enter the social entrepreneurship field: the work of social entrepreneurs is developed in an even more complex and changing environment than that of commercial entrepreneurs because of the need to achieve a sustainable social impact while addressing the market. Tracey and Phillips (2007) describe the main challenge for social entrepreneurs as appropriately accomplishing their social and economic goals through the management of accountability, organizational identity and the double bottom line. In an extension of this research, Smith et al. (2012) present a model of social entrepreneurs’ skill development based on empirical evidence from the classroom and from practice. In this model, one of the main skills to be developed is mindfulness of social and economic objectives to accomplish them in a balanced way. Additionally, this model (Smith et al. 2012) proposes mini-MBA training and direct experience of the social entrepreneurial organization’s social impact. Considering the importance of social entrepreneurship at the present time, as well as the complexity of the challenges that it faces, the purpose of this study is to complement the findings of previous research on the characteristics of social entrepreneurs. This goal is accomplished through a pilot study of the main characteristics necessary to fulfill the dual objectives of social entrepreneurship in a balanced way. Based on the conclusions of previous research, mindfulness is emphasized as one of these main characteristics. Social volunteering experience and entrepreneurial training are additional variables included in a model that explains the intentions of social entrepreneurship. We refer to intention because we seek to identify the motivations behind starting a social entrepreneurship project. To achieve the objective mentioned above, this article is divided into two parts: (a) a literature review in which the major previous studies on the subject are discussed and the gap to be fulfilled in this study is identified; (b) a pilot study to identify the relationships between variables, ending with a discussion of further research proposals and the general conclusions of this study.
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