Social Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: A Focus on the Institutional Environment and Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

Boris Urban
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Boris Urban: University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Managing Global Transitions, 2013, vol. 11, issue 1 (Spring), 3-25

Abstract: Consistent with the notion that the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial activity, this article interrogates how a person’s willingness to pursue social entrepreneurship is connected with self-efficacy beliefs. Hypotheses are formulated in terms of South Africa’s regulatory, normative, and cognitive institutional profiles relating to an individual’s social entrepreneurship self-efficacy. Findings indicate favourable perceptions of the regulatory and normative dimensions, which are associated with higher levels of self-efficacy. Implications imply that although institutional support mechanisms are essential to increase social business practices, ultimately social entrepreneurship can only spread by fostering individual self-beliefs.

Keywords: institutions; self-efficacy; social entrepreneurship; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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