The Role of CSR on Social Entrepreneurship: An International Analysis

Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez and Inmaculada Carrasco Monteagudo
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Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 16071 Cuenca, Spain
Inmaculada Carrasco Monteagudo: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Plaza de la Universidad, 02071 Albacete, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-22

Abstract: The increase in the weight of social entrepreneurship (SE) in the economy has driven the increase in research on the subject. Within the set of approaches developed by scholars to analyse SE, the institutional approach has recently acquired greater relevance. Following this research trend, this article seeks to expand the empirical research on SE by focusing on the informal factors that are less studied in the literature and using a cross-national base. Using the New Institutional Economics and partial least squares–structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), our findings show the influence of cultural context on the SE dimension. In addition, this influence occurs through two groups of variables led by social capital and corporate social responsibility, although their impacts show opposite signs. These factors have important implications for policy makers in charge of fostering SE development.

Keywords: culture; social entrepreneurship; corporate social responsibility; social justice; social capital; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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