Emprenedoria social als països en desenvolupament: un context institucional
- Autores: Luis Fernando Hidalgo Varela
- Directores de la Tesis: Josep Rialp Criado (dir. tes.), David Urbano Pulido (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2020
- Idioma: catalán
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jasmina Berbegal (presid.), Andreu Turró (secret.), José Ernesto Amorós (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Creación y Gestión de Empresas / IDEM, Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Management por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Social entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as a crucial element for the progress of economies and society. Therefore, scholars and policy-makers have been interested in what factors might determine this phenomenon. Although several disciplines have analyzed entrepreneurship antecedents, the institutional approaches have obtained relevance due to their capacity to provide a framework in which entrepreneurs make decisions based on the context where they are embedded. This theoretical view allows to explain the institutional differences across countries. Hence, it turns out that formal and informal institutions is useful for comprehending why individuals decide to become social entrepreneurs and/or commercial entrepreneurs, and at the same time, how these institutions contribute to social entrepreneur satisfaction in developing countries.
Therefore, this investigation explores the institutional factors that influence social entrepreneurial activity across developing countries, using the institutional economics perspective as the theoretical framework. Specifically, the research study the trends in the social entrepreneurship literature with emphasis on institutional context; determining the influence of institutional context (formal and informal) on social and commercial entrepreneurial activity in developing countries; determining the influence of socio-cultural factors (informal institutions) on social and commercial entrepreneurial activity in developing and developed countries, during and after the financial crisis; and analyzing the role of institutional context on social entrepreneur satisfaction in developing countries.
The methodology used is quantitative and mostly regards the estimations of various equations (logistic regressions, marginal effects and Partial least squares regression). Thus, for the equation dealing with institutions and entrepreneurship, this research employed data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and a primary base of social entrepreneurs in Mexico, to measure different variables of entrepreneurial activity.
The main findings of this thesis reveal that effectively there is a relationship that runs from the institutional context, influencing social entrepreneurship. In this way, it is found that the informal institutions (entrepreneurial career, role model, media impact, perceived opportunities, fear of failure, and entrepreneurial skills) are more important for entrepreneurship than the formal ones (regulations, laws, and government policies). Likewise, these results support the importance of institutional factors to social entrepreneurial activity.
Finally, this research has theoretical and public policy implications. In terms of the theoretical debate, the study contributes to the literature by applying institutional economics as an appropriate conceptual framework for the analysis of the environmental determinants that foster or inhibit social entrepreneurial activity in different contexts. This study may provide empirical evidence for the idea that institutional economics not only those determinants that explain the desire to be a social entrepreneur, but also those fundamental factors that condition the social entrepreneur satisfaction. In this sense, social entrepreneurship is proven to be affected by institutional factors, and at the same time, to influence outcomes such as social development and economic growth. On the other hand, from a managerial and policy maker’s perspective, this research should be taken into account for the design of policies to support social entrepreneurship in different environments by considering the influence of institutions on the creation of a social business.
