Entrepreneurs’ Personality Traits and Social Enterprise: A Legitimation Perspective

IF 2 4区管理学 Q3 BUSINESS Entrepreneurship Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1515/erj-2022-0216

Yingzhao Xiao, Zhen Liu, D. Ahlstrom, Yanzhuang Bai

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Abstract

Abstract Prosocial personality traits are thought to be essential characteristics of social entrepreneurs. However, extant research has typically focused on how personality traits affect individuals to simply engage in social entrepreneurship but not on the actual prosocial behavior they employ or the eventual outcomes. We posit that studying the link between personality traits and organizational legitimacy, a salient outcome for social enterprise development, is a fruitful avenue for research. Building on the legitimation perspective, we examine the underlying mechanisms and contextual conditions in the relationship between personality traits (agreeableness specifically) and social enterprise legitimacy. Empirical analysis of 230 social enterprises in China demonstrates that a social enterprise’s legitimation strategy via network centrality and the contingent role of the focal venture’s development stage importantly conditions the effectiveness of the social entrepreneurs’ personality traits and their impact on social enterprise legitimacy. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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企业家人格特质与社会企业:一个合法性视角

亲社会人格特征被认为是社会企业家的基本特征。然而，现有的研究通常集中在人格特征如何影响个人简单地参与社会创业，而不是他们实际采用的亲社会行为或最终结果。我们认为，研究人格特质与组织合法性之间的联系是一个富有成效的研究途径，这是社会企业发展的一个显著成果。在合法性视角的基础上，我们研究了人格特质(特别是宜人性)与社会企业合法性之间关系的潜在机制和背景条件。对中国230家社会企业的实证分析表明，社会企业通过网络中心性的合法性策略和焦点企业发展阶段的偶然性作用，在很大程度上决定了社会企业家人格特质的有效性及其对社会企业合法性的影响。讨论了理论和实践意义。

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Entrepreneurship Research Journal BUSINESS-

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4.50

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21.10%

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期刊介绍： Entrepreneurship Research Journal (ERJ) was launched with an Inaugural Issue in 2011. Professor Ramona Zachary at Baruch College and Professor Chandra Mishra at Florida Atlantic University introduce a new forum for scholarly discussion on entrepreneurs and their activities, contexts, processes, strategies, and outcomes. Positioned as the premier new research journal within the field of entrepreneurship, ERJ seeks to encourage a scholarly exchange between researchers from any field of study who focus on entrepreneurs, and will include both theoretical and empirical articles, with priority being given to high quality theoretical and empirical papers that have managerial or public policy orientation as well as ramifications for entrepreneurship research overall. Topics: -Research Modeling, Design, and Methods: entrepreneurship theories and conceptualizations, entrepreneurship research methods. -The Individuals-Opportunities-Resources Nexus: nascent entrepreneurs, opportunity recognition, drivers of value creation, and emergence, innovation and technology entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial risk and reward, entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. -Inclusive of Near Environments: family entrepreneurship, networks, teams and alliances, venture capital and angel investor groups, entrepreneurial communities, hubs, clusters and public policy, social entrepreneurship. -Distinct Entrepreneurial Stage or Setting: entrepreneurial growth and strategy, boards, governance and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, international and emerging market entrepreneurship.