Abstract

This paper empirically examines how social entrepreneurs’ inner realities – thoughts, feelings, self-awareness – shape the entrepreneurial value creation process. A qualitative research design was used to induce theory. Evidence shows social entrepreneurs engaged in practices that increased awareness of both positive and negative aspects of their inner realities. Positive aspects tended to enable generative value creation mechanisms and lead to positive social/environmental outcomes; negative aspects tended to interfere and lead to unintended negative outcomes. Key contributions include a fuller picture of the value creation process from multiple levels – individual, enterprise, wider environment – while considering social entrepreneurs’ exterior and interior dimensions.

摘要

本文实证检验了社会企业家的内在现实——思想、感受、自我意识——如何塑造企业家价值创造过程。定性研究设计用于诱导理论。有证据表明，社会企业家所从事的实践提高了对其内在现实积极和消极方面的认识。积极的方面倾向于促成产生价值创造机制并带来积极的社会/环境成果；消极方面往往会干扰并导致意想不到的消极结果。主要贡献包括从多个层面——个人、企业、更广泛的环境——更全面地了解价值创造过程，同时考虑社会企业家的外部和内部维度。