Social entrepreneurship within the nonprofit sector has gained popularity as a concept informing the management of high functioning human service organizations. However, research has neglected to quantitatively test and measure factors contributing to this multidimensional model. Addressing this gap, this research collected primary data on executive directors (n = 306) of human service nonprofit organizations in Canada to validate a pre-identified scale of social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) consisting of social innovation, risk taking, proactiveness, and market engagement. Findings from confirmatory factor analysis found all four latent variables had strong construct validity and reliability, as did the higher order variable of SEO (including all factors). Results support the adoption of this model as a robust measure of SEO in human service nonprofits, and can be used to inform the management and assessment of specific organization-level factors that contribute to social entrepreneurship.

非营利部门内的社会创业作为一种为高职能人类服务组织的管理提供信息的概念而受到欢迎。然而，研究忽略了定量测试和衡量促成这种多维模型的因素。为了解决这一差距，本研究收集了执行董事的主要数据（n = 306）加拿大的人类服务非营利组织，以验证预先确定的社会创业导向（SEO）规模，包括社会创新、风险承担、主动性和市场参与。验证性因素分析的结果发现，所有四个潜在变量都具有很强的构造效度和可靠性，SEO 的高阶变量（包括所有因素）也是如此。结果支持采用该模型作为人类服务非营利组织中 SEO 的强有力衡量标准，并可用于为有助于社会创业的特定组织层面因素的管理和评估提供信息。