Sentimental drivers of social entrepreneurship: A study of China's guangcai (glorious) program

• Main Authors: YIU, Daphne W., WAN, William P., NG, Frank W., CHEN, Xing, SU, Jun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Moral sentiments; Personal experience; Social entrepreneurship; Social status; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7336; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8335/viewcontent/sentimental_drivers.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social entrepreneurship plays an important role in local development in emerging economies, but scholars have paid little attention to this emerging phenomenon. Under the theory of moral sentiments, we posit that some entrepreneurs are altruistically motivated to promote a morally effective economic...