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Social Entrepreneur: Same or Different from the Rest?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Catalina Nicolás MartínezOpen the ORCID record for Catalina Nicolás Martínez[Opens in a new window],
Alicia Rubio Bañón and
Ana Fernández Laviada
Catalina Nicolás Martínez*
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, s/n, 30100, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
Alicia Rubio Bañón*
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Finance, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Ana Fernández Laviada*
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
*
catalina.nicolas@um.es
arubio@um.es
ana.fernandez@unican.es
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Abstract

A social business responds to social problems usually ignored by institutions, mobilizing resources and generating employment. To gain more knowledge about this type of enterprise, the key factors that may influence social entrepreneurship are studied and compared with nonsocial entrepreneurship. This enables advances in the scientific literature and the design of more effective policies that encourage the creation of social enterprises. To achieve this goal, after delimiting the area of study, a sample of 25,631 entrepreneurs in 59 countries was used; 9792 of these are social entrepreneurs collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project in 2015 when a special issue focused on this topic. The results show that the majority of the factors that determine the decision to undertake nonsocial entrepreneurship also condition the individual to undertake social entrepreneurship, although the nature of their relationship or the intensity of the influence changes.

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Resumen

Una empresa social, además de movilizar recursos y generar empleo, da respuesta a problemas sociales desatendidos por las instituciones. Para profundizar en el conocimiento de los factores que influyen en la creación de una empresa social, en este trabajo se analizan las características del emprendedor social en comparación con el emprendedor no social. Esto permitirá avanzar en la literatura, identificando aquellos factores condicionantes en la creación de empresas sociales, lo que contribuirá a diseñar políticas más efectivas que impulsen la creación de empresas sociales. Para conseguir este objetivo, tras delimitar conceptualmente el ámbito de estudio, se analiza una muestra de 18.858 emprendedores de 59 países de los cuales 9.792 son emprendedores sociales, recogida por el proyecto GEM en 2015 cuando destinaron un monográfico especial a este tema. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la mayoría de factores que determinan la decisión de emprender no socialmente también condicionan al individuo a la hora de emprender socialmente, aunque cambiando su relación o la intensidad de su influencia.

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EntrepreneurshipSocial entrepreneurPersonalityIndividual variablesSubjective variables

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Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2019, pp. 443 - 459
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