Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate two competing hypotheses about the relationship between a country’s human rights violation and social entrepreneurship entry.

Design/methodology/approach

Using multilevel logistic regression with random effect, this paper tested the hypotheses on a sample of 110,460 individuals in 49 countries using data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s Adult Population Survey and the Survey of Social Entrepreneurship for the year 2009. This paper takes advantage of the Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Data Project to measure a country’s level of human rights protection.

Findings

Human rights are positively related to social entrepreneurship entry. The findings also indicate that public sector expenditure strengthens the relationship between human rights, measured by the judiciary independence and social entrepreneurship entry.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature by conducting a novel empirical investigation of the direct relationship between a country’s human rights and social entrepreneurship entry.

中文翻译：

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侵犯人权是否会引发或阻碍社会创业？

目的

本文的目的是调查关于一个国家侵犯人权与社会创业进入之间关系的两个相互竞争的假设。

设计/方法/方法

使用具有随机效应的多级逻辑回归，本文使用全球创业观察的成人人口调查和社会创业调查 2009 年的数据，对 49 个国家的 110,460 人的样本进​​行了假设检验。本文利用了 Cingranelli-理查兹人权数据项目，用于衡量一个国家的人权保护水平。

发现

人权与社会创业进入正相关。调查结果还表明，公共部门支出加强了人权之间的关系，以司法独立和社会创业进入衡量。

原创性/价值

本研究通过对一个国家的人权与社会创业进入之间的直接关系进行新的实证调查，为社会创业文献做出了贡献。