- Titel
- What sparks innovativeness and effectiveness in social entrepreneurship? - New insights regarding important personal and institutional factors
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-1027466
- Datum der Einreichung
- 15.05.2025
- Datum der Verteidigung
- 11.12.2025
- Abstract (EN)
- The current habilitation aims to shed light on the challenges faced by social entrepreneurs in different phases of the entrepreneurial life-cycle. Examining the pre- and post-formation stage and combining personal and institutional perspectives, I offer notable insights on what constitutes effective and innovative social entrepreneurial activity. In the pre-formation stage, I extend previous research by shedding light on the complex interplay of personality and cognition in social entrepreneurial motivation and identify how different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds may affect underlying mechanisms. In the post-formation stage, I examine stereotypic perceptions regarding social entrepreneurs as leaders, explore how the design of work, error management, and crisis communication affect social enterprise effectiveness and innovation, and investigate the applicability of different approaches to measure social impact. To mirror various institutional circumstances and shed light on their effects, my studies are conducted in different countries.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Social Entrepreneurship, pre-formation, post-formation, micro-level, meso-level, macro-level
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 158
- Klassifikation (RVK)
- CW 4500
- CW 4600
- CR 9500
- GutachterIn
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wegge
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Bergner
- Prof. Dr. Mariola Łaguna
- BetreuerIn Hochschule / Universität
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wegge
- Den akademischen Grad verleihende / prüfende Institution
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- angenommene Version / Postprint / Autorenversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-1027466
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 26.03.2026
- Dokumenttyp
- Habilitation
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Note 2 2. Acknowledgements 3 3. Summary 6 4. Social Entrepreneurship as a New Form of Entrepreneurship 8 5. Systematization of Studies Included in the Habilitation 11 5.1. Framework for Psychological Entrepreneurship Research (Gorgievski & Stephan, 2016) 11 5.2 Social Entrepreneurship Framework by Saebi et al. (2019) 13 5.3 Systematization of the Studies in this Habilitation 14 6. Systematic Overview of Studies included in the Habilitation 15 7. Discussion 28 7.1. Main Contributions 28 7.2. Implications for Future Research 34 7.3. Practical Implications 35 7.4. Limitations 36 8. Conclusion 37 9. References 39 10. Appendix (Studies) 47 Study 1: Spreading entrepreneurial news - investigating media influence on social entrepreneurial antecedents 48 Study 2: Effects of gender on antecedents to social entrepreneurship among university students in South Africa 74 Study 3: Exploring international and inter-sector differences of social enterprises in the UK and India 91 Study 4: A risky way of doing good – Combining personality and cognitive variables in a new hierarchical model of investment risk-taking in social entrepreneurship 128 Study 5: Measuring the Role of Reductive Bias in Social Enterprise Formation: Development and Validation of a Social Entrepreneurial Intention Bias Scale 160 Study 6: A framework for antecedents of social entrepreneurial intention: Empirical evidence and research agenda 188 Study 7: Exploring social and commercial entrepreneurial intentions from Theory of Planned Behaviour perspective: A cross-country study among Namibian and German students 224 Study 8: An experimental investigation of perceived differences in personality and leadership attributes of social entrepreneurs compared to for profit entrepreneurs and NPO-leaders 257 Study 9: What Keeps Social Entrepreneurs Happy? Exploring Personality, Work Design, External Support, and Social Impact as Resources of Social Entrepreneurs’ Mental Well-Being 296 Study 10: A constructive error management culture promotes innovation and corporate social responsibility: A multi-level analysis in ten countries 337 Study 11: Looking Through the Entrepreneurial Kaleidoscope - Examining Stereotypes Against Commercial, Social, Environmental, and Community Entrepreneurs in Kenya and Germany 378 Study 12: Good and Measure Well! – Examining the Validity of two Positive Social Change Measurements in South African Social Enterprises 424 Study 13: How Does Gender Self-Stereotyping Influence Entrepreneurial Intention Formation? – An Empirical Investigation of Nascent Commercial and Social Entrepreneurs 459 Study 14: Chance to Shine or Heading for Disaster? - Exploring German Social Enterprises’ Stakeholder Communication facing COVID-19-induced Lockdowns 500 Study 15: What makes social innovation more innovative? Examining meso- and macro-level influences 535 11. Author Contributions 586 12. Statement of Authorship 590