Institutions and social entrepreneurship: the role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations

Ute Stephan; Lorraine M. Uhlaner; Chris B. Stride

doi:10.1057/jibs.2014.38

Institutions and social entrepreneurship: the role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations

Ute Stephan^*, Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Chris B. Stride

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Abstract

We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (postmaterialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital) institutions in a multilevel study of 106,484 individuals in 26 nations. We test opposing propositions from the institutional void and institutional support perspectives. Our results underscore the importance of resource support from both formal and informal institutions, and highlight motivational supply side influences on SE. They advocate greater consideration of institutional configurations in institutional theory and comparative entrepreneurship research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	308-331
Number of pages	24
Journal	Journal of International Business Studies
Volume	46
Issue number	3
Early online date	31 Jul 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2014.38
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Ute Stephan gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Commission, Socioeconomic Sciences and Humanities Grant Agreement 613500 (Seforїs project).

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comparative entrepreneurship
cultural values
institutional theory
institutional void
social capital
social entrepreneurship

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