Institutions and social entrepreneurship: The role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations

Ute Stephan, Lorraine M Uhlaner and Christopher Stride
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Ute Stephan: Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Lorraine M Uhlaner: People, Markets and Humanities Department, EDHEC Business School, Lille, France
Christopher Stride: Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield Management School, Sheffield, UK

Journal of International Business Studies, 2015, vol. 46, issue 3, 308-331

Abstract: We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (postmaterialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital) institutions in a multilevel study of 106,484 individuals in 26 nations. We test opposing propositions from the institutional void and institutional support perspectives. Our results underscore the importance of resource support from both formal and informal institutions, and highlight motivational supply side influences on SE. They advocate greater consideration of institutional configurations in institutional theory and comparative entrepreneurship research.

Date: 2015
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