Academy of Management Review· 2012Q1
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship
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Short summary
Compassion can drive social entrepreneurship by enabling integrated thinking, prosocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating suffering, particularly under supportive institutional conditions.
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Key points
- Compassion is a key motivator for social entrepreneurship.
- Three mechanisms link compassion to social entrepreneurship: integrated thinking, prosocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating suffering.
- Institutional conditions can amplify the effect of these mechanisms.
- The model contributes to positive organizational scholarship and entrepreneurship literature.
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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.
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