ABSTRACT

Social entrepreneurship (SE) combines the aspirations to create financial and social values. However, an SE-career is also considered risky and susceptible to failure. Despite a growing body of research examining the motivation of social entrepreneurs, studies on antecedents of investment risk-taking in SE are rare. The current study aims at crafting and empirically testing a hierarchical model comprising personality and cognitive antecedents of SE investment risk-taking. Using structural equation modeling and a sample of 411 business students, we find several direct effects of cognitive and indirect effects of personality variables. SE-scholars and educators should pay attention to this complex interplay in future studies and SE-courses.

摘要

社会企业家精神（SE）结合了创造财务和社会价值的愿望。然而，SE 职业也被认为是有风险的并且容易失败。尽管越来越多的研究考察了社会企业家的动机，但关于社会企业投资风险前因的研究却很少。目前的研究旨在制作和实证测试一个分层模型，该模型包含 SE 投资风险承担的个性和认知前因。使用结构方程模型和 411 名商科学生的样本，我们发现认知变量的几个直接影响和人格变量的间接影响。SE 学者和教育工作者在未来的研究和 SE 课程中应该注意这种复杂的相互作用。