Abstract
We advance research on human capital and entrepreneurial entry and posit that, in order to generate value, social entrepreneurship requires different configurations of human capital than commercial entrepreneurship. We develop a multilevel framework to analyse the commonalities and differences between social and commercial entrepreneurship, including the impact of general and specific human capital, of national context and its moderating effect on the human capital-entrepreneurship relationship. We find that specific entrepreneurial human capital is relatively more important in commercial entrepreneurship, and general human capital in social entrepreneurship, and that the effects of human capital depend on the rule of law.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 449–467 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Business Venturing |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 29 May 2016 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2016 |
Bibliographical note
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- entrepreneurship
- entrepreneurial behaviour
- social entrepreneurs
- social entrepreneurship
- human capital
- institutional environment
- institutional economics