社会创业活动驱动机制研究——一个模糊集定性比较分析

利用fsQCA方法，以22个经济体为样本分析个体、制度环境以及文化层面的5个条件联动匹配对社会创业活跃度的影响。结果表明：第一，机会感知、失败恐惧感、制度环境以及人文导向文化维度无法单独构成高或者非高社会创业活跃度的必要条件。第二，高社会创业活跃度路径有3种：高人文导向下的环境—能力型、低人文导向下的环境拉动型与环境推拉型。第三，非高社会创业活跃度产生路径有两种：低人文导向及拉动型制度环境缺失条件下，与其它要素联动匹配；高人文导向文化、低机会感知以及低失败恐惧感条件下，与不同类型制度环境联动匹配。第四，社会创业活跃度影响路径具有非对称性。

The Driving Mechanisms of Social Entrepreneurship: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Social entrepreneurship challenges the balance between social value and economic performance, and it is the unique way to solve social problems efficiently and achieve sustainable development. In particular, at a critical stage when China has entered the new economic norm and people’s demand for a better life is increasingly urgent, social entrepreneurship has become an essential force for realizing common prosperity and achieving high-quality development. Such entrepreneurial activities are closely related to major realities such as poverty eradication, environmental protection, and rural revitalization.#br#Currently, the idea of creating social value by market means has been favored by many scholars, and social enterprises are emerging in more and more economies. But according to the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM), the prevalence of social entrepreneurship varies widely across economies. So why is social entrepreneurial activity prevalent in some economies and dormant in others, and what are the pathways that drive social entrepreneurship?#br#This study constructs an analytical model containing multi-level elements to explore the driving mechanisms of social entrepreneurial activities based on the GEM framework. Referring to both psychological and human capital aspects, it selects two individual indicatorfor this model: perception of opportunity and fear of failure. At the institutional level, this study combines the perspectives of institutional voids and institutional support, and classifies the institutional environment into “pulled” and “pushing” institutional environment to comprehensively analyze its impact on potential social entrepreneurs. It should not be ignored that the prevalence of social entrepreneurship in different cultural contexts also shows significant differences, and the driving factors at the cultural level also need to be analyzed. At the cultural level,the study focuses on exploring the role of the humane orientation.#br#By considering the complexity of social entrepreneurship, the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) that combines the advantages of qualitative and quantitative analysis is used in the study. The cases and data are obtained from the social entrepreneurship special survey of GEM and the GLOBE project. After censoring, 22 economies are included in the study.By the fsQCA, this paper derives the configurations that generate high and non-high social entrepreneurial activity.#br#The paper draws the following conclusions. First, each of the antecedent conditions studied in this paper cannot be a necessary condition for high social entrepreneurial activity on its own but requires a linkage match of the five conditions. Second, three paths generate high social entrepreneurial activity: the first path is the institutional environment-capability mode in the high humane orientation culture. Under such a cultural context, the high pushing institutional environment and high opportunity perception are taken as the core conditions. and they jointly promote the emergence of social entrepreneurship activities assisted by the low pulled institutional environment or low fear of failure. The second path is the pulled institutional environment mode in the low humane orientation culture.In the low humane orientation culture, the matching of a high pulled institutional environment and low fear of failure creates social entrepreneurship. The third path is the pulled and pushing institutional environment modes which refer to the linkage matching of high pulled and pushing institutional environment, high opportunity perception and low fear of failure are the helpful condition sets. Third, two paths create non-high social entrepreneurship activities. The first type of configuration is the poorlypulled institutional environment in low humane orientation, combined with other elements. In the culture of high humane orientation, the second configuration is formed by the matching of low opportunity perception and fear of failure with different types of the social entrepreneurial institutional environment. Fourth, there is an asymmetric relationship between the driving mechanisms of high and non-high social entrepreneurial activity. #br#This research reveals the complicated reasons for the emergence of social entrepreneurial activity, and it helps to pay more attention on the cultural dimension of social entrepreneurship. The results reveal that the influence of humane orientation values on social entrepreneurship activity doesn’t play a simple linear effect. It is uncertain if a high human-oriented culture will necessarily lead to social entrepreneurship and vice versa. Moreover, this study contributes to the institutional theory by refining the social entrepreneurial institutional environment. The results of the study provide several practical implications. First, practitioners should focus on improving the ability of opportunity perception, especially the potential social entrepreneurs in a high level of humane orientation. Second, it is necessary to improve the institutional environment for social entrepreneurship. All sectors should strive to create favorable conditions for social entrepreneurial activities. Finally and the most importantly, policymakers should integrate cultural traits to promote the social entrepreneurship.#br#