TY - JOUR
T1 - The social entrepreneur puzzle
T2 - the background, personality and motivation of Israeli social entrepreneurs
AU - Cohen, Hilla
AU - Kaspi-Baruch, Oshrit
AU - Katz, Hagai
N1 - Funding Information:
The European Commission is gratefully acknowledged for funding the Renewable Systems Engineering project (RENESENG?FP7 Marie Curie project). We would also like to thank Intelligen, Inc. (Demetri Petrides) for upscaling the SuperPro? flowsheets and Jean-Paul Lange for his valuable comments and recommendations.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - This study compares the personality, motivation and leadership background of 104 Israeli social entrepreneurs and 85 business entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are higher in extraversion and openness to experience, lower in managerial personality characteristics, and more driven by ideology rather than by capital gains. Social entrepreneurs also have stronger early ideological and leadership training. Multiple regression analysis reveals that a relatively robust and persistent set of internal psychological drivers prompt a search for specific experiences that are related to leadership roles and social change orientations, including social entrepreneurship and the relevant leading experiences in adolescence and young adulthood.
AB - This study compares the personality, motivation and leadership background of 104 Israeli social entrepreneurs and 85 business entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are higher in extraversion and openness to experience, lower in managerial personality characteristics, and more driven by ideology rather than by capital gains. Social entrepreneurs also have stronger early ideological and leadership training. Multiple regression analysis reveals that a relatively robust and persistent set of internal psychological drivers prompt a search for specific experiences that are related to leadership roles and social change orientations, including social entrepreneurship and the relevant leading experiences in adolescence and young adulthood.
KW - Social entrepreneurs
KW - business entrepreneurs
KW - leadership
KW - motivation
KW - personality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060891030&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541010
DO - 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060891030
SN - 1942-0676
VL - 10
SP - 211
EP - 231
JO - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
JF - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
IS - 2
ER -
