Development and Validation of a New Social Entrepreneurial Intention Scale in South Africa and Germany

Philipp Kruse, Eleanor Meda Chipeta, Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Jürgen Wegge

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2025, vol. 16, issue 2, 647-673

Abstract: Social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) is a necessary pre-condition of social enterprise creation. Despite notable progress in the field, a recent meta-analysis yielded two central problems. First, a large share of inter-study heterogeneity regarding antecedent-SEI effects resulted from the application of different and insufficiently validated SEI-scales, thus, a methodological bias. Second, emerging SE-landscapes in Africa are underrepresented. As a response, we constructed and validated a new SEI-scale with three samples from South Africa and Germany (Ntotal = 799). Applying factor and correlational analyses, we found that our new six-item-scale is psychometrically sound, interculturally robust, and shows a high validity.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2023.2205419

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