Contextualizing emotional intelligence for commercial and social entrepreneurship

Saurav Pathak () and Etayankara Muralidharan
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Saurav Pathak: Global Research Institute
Etayankara Muralidharan: MacEwan University

Small Business Economics, 2024, vol. 62, issue 2, No 11, 667-686

Abstract: Abstract Rendering four emotional competencies of the trait emotional intelligence model, well-being, self-control, adaptability, and sociability as culturally contextualized societal psychological capital, we explain their cross-cultural comparative influences on social and commercial entrepreneurship. We use psychological capital theory to establish emotional intelligence as one’s emotional competencies. Societies with an augmented supply of individuals with such competencies will have higher reserves of positive psychological capital making emotional intelligence as culturally contextualized that shape both commercial and social entrepreneurship. Using 30,924 responses from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of 24 countries and supplementing data from World Values Survey (WVS), our multilevel analyses show that societal eudaimonic well-being and sociability increase the likelihood of social entrepreneurship more than commercial entrepreneurship whereas societal hedonic well-being, adaptability, and self-control increase that of commercial entrepreneurship more than social entrepreneurship, implying that culturally contextualized emotional intelligence shapes commercial and social entrepreneurship differently across nations. Our findings offer policy implications for country-specific programs that tap into societal emotional competencies for entrepreneurship pedagogy, sustainability goals, and emotional intelligence-based training for entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Well-being; Adaptability; Self-control; Sociability; Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 L26 L31 L33 M13 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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