Social Innovation Capability of a Social Entrepreneur: Scale Development and Validation

Hansa Lysander Manohar

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2024, vol. 15, issue 3, 1161-1182

Abstract: Social innovation helps to address the complex problems of society by identifying the social issues and providing targeted actions. Here, the study investigates the factors of social entrepreneur capability towards social innovation. This paper discusses the scale development for measuring the social innovation capability of the social entrepreneur. The study uses the expert opinion method to select the items to increase the content validity from 800 professional under-graduate students who are ready for placements in educational institutions and would like to become social entrepreneurs and who are members of the Entrepreneur Cell in India. Further exploratory factor analysis was employed to check the proposed dimension fit in the construct of social innovation. Accordingly, the results of the study state that the proposed dimension ‘Intent to Innovate’ was found to be significant with the other existing factors of social innovation capability. Hence, it paves the way for future research.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2127853

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