Founder's background as a catalyst for social entrepreneurship


ASARKAYA Ç., KELEŞ TAYŞİR N.

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.155-166, 2019 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/nml.21353
  • Dergi Adı: Nonprofit Management and Leadership
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.155-166
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: founder's background, founding decision, social entrepreneurship, Turkey
  • İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Social entrepreneurship has a long history of practice worldwide. However, the concept has become widely popular among researchers over the last two decades. Despite this popularity, less is known about the process, which leads to becoming a social entrepreneur. Barendsen and Gardner's study shows that many social entrepreneurs have traumatic experience in their early lives; however, there are no supporting studies investigating the impact of the background of founders on the founding decision of their entities. Because of that we utilized the models of theory of planned behavior as well as the concept of imprinting to explain the process that leads to entrepreneurial behavior. The purpose of our study is to investigate the life stories of some Turkish social entrepreneurs, and to explore which factors in these people's backgrounds may have contributed to their decisions to establish their foundations.