Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship

By Toyah L. Miller, Matthew G. Grimes, Jeffery S. McMullen, Timothy J. Vogus. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “In particular, high levels of visible poverty are likely to increase the probability of compassion being transformed into social entrepreneurial ventures (Miller et al., 2012), resulting in a stronger perception of the importance of the social mission by members of the venture.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…are prosocial enough to encourage that others’ problems are noticed and that socio- economic solutions are attempted (McMullen & Bergman, 2017, 2018; Miller et al., 2012); ability—for example, distributed agency enables enough technical and cultural knowledge to enact development…”
Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development (2020, background): “The literature focuses on the use of market-based methods to address social issues and create social value through the creative recombination of resources ( Miller et al., 2012 ).”
A systematic literature review of the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of social entrepreneurial intention of students (2020, background): “Empathy is an essential trait of social entrepreneurs (Dees, 2012) and similar to ATB, it has been regarded as an important antecedent of SEI (Dees, 2012; London, 2010; Mair & Noboa, 2006; Miller et al., 2012).”
The Impact of Moral Intensity and Desire for Control on Scaling Decisions in Social Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Our article also adds to the emerging research in the area of social entrepreneurship (Santos 2012; Miller et al. 2012) that calls into question the central assumption of selfinterest as a motivator for human behavior and economic action.”
Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research (2014, background): “Another integral aspect of social entrepreneurship, identified by Nicholls and Cho (2008), is the aspect of market orientation.”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, background): “Social entrepreneurs are posited to differ from traditional entrepreneurs as they address social problems through economically sustainable business models (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Mair and Mart ı, 2006; Miller et al., 2012; Moss et al., 2011; Tracey et al., 2011).”
Values Matter, Don’t They? – Combining Theory of Planned Behavior and Personal Values as Predictors of Social Entrepreneurial Intention (2018, background): “PBC: perceived behavioral control; SEI: social entrepreneurial intention. entrepreneurship (Miller et al. 2012; Renko 2013).”
Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: Complementary or disjoint phenomena? (2017, background): “…then it stands to reason that this will increase the likelihood that an individual will either become a social entrepreneur or will incorporate a social mission into an existing business because these are the exact cultural values on which social entrepreneurship is based (Miller et al., 2012).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “, 2014) and may thus be of interest for entrepreneurship scholars who view compassion as the core motivation for social entrepreneurship and ethical decisionmaking (Miller et al., 2012; Shepherd, 2015).”
Converging Winds: Logic Hybridization in the Colorado Wind Energy Field (2016, neutral): “For example, social enterprises blend non-profit with for-profit models (Grimes et al., 2013; Miller et al., 2012;Moss, Short, Payne, & Lumpkin, 2011).”
Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test (2015, background): “Entrepreneurs that prefer non-monetary rewards (Miller et al., 2012) tend to allocate resources differently than founders with monetary goals (Dunkelberg et al., 2013); thus, those with high levels of extrinsic motivation are less likely to pursue stewardship activities (Davis et al., 1997).”
Enhancing Social Entrepreneurial Intentions through Entrepreneurial Creativity: A Comparative Study Between Taiwan and Hong Kong (2018, result): “…implying that this trait greatly facilitates the intentional belief of university students; this finding agrees with those of prior research (Dees, 2012; Grant & Berry, 2011; London, 2010; Miller et al., 2012) and lends additional support to Hockerts’ (2017) findings derived in two student samples.”
Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization (2016, background): “…possibilities of creating blended value through hybrid organizations (see for example, Dean and McMullen, 2007; Grimes et al., 2013; McMullen, 2011; Miller et al., 2012), but as yet one more dimension of an increasingly complex socio-economic ecosystem, as opposed to a reformation of capitalism…”