Aspiring to Be a Social Entrepreneur: Does Prosocial Motivation Matter?

Eric Adom Asante; Emmanuel Affum-Osei; Barbara Danquah

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39676-3_4

Aspiring to Be a Social Entrepreneur: Does Prosocial Motivation Matter?

Eric Adom Asante^*
, Emmanuel Affum-Osei
, Barbara Danquah

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Despite the significant role played by social entrepreneurship in helping to address social problems, entrepreneurship research has focused less on this specific topic. Even fewer researches have examined factors that may influence social entrepreneurial intention. In this chapter, we draw on the motivated information processing theory to explain why and when prosocial motivation may lead to social entrepreneurial intention. We also show the important role played by aspiring entrepreneurs’ intrinsic motivation in explaining the relationship between prosocial motivation and social entrepreneurial intention. We explain how prior experience with social problems and social entrepreneurial self-efficacy might influence social entrepreneurial intention as well as strengthen the effect of intrinsic motivation on social entrepreneurial intention.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Management for Professionals
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	47-61
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39676-3_4
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Management for Professionals
Volume	Part F432
ISSN (Print)	2192-8096
ISSN (Electronic)	2192-810X

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
Accounting
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Finance

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