Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship
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- 1 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 37 (4), 616-640
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2010.0456
Abstract
Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a complex yet promising organizational form in which market-based methods are used to address seemingly intractable social issues, but its motivations remain undertheorized. Research asserts that compassion may supplement traditional self-oriented motivations in encouraging social entrepreneurship. We draw on research on compassion and prosocial motivation to build a model of three mechanisms (integrative thinking, prosocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating others' suffering) that transform compassion into social entrepreneurship, and we identify the institutional conditions under which they are most likely to do so. We conclude by discussing the model's contribution to and implications for the positive organizational scholarship literature, entrepreneurship literature, and social entrepreneurship literature.Keywords
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