Institutions, Social Entrepreneurship, and Internationalization

Abstract

The dissertation is aimed at investigating the complex and understudied relationships between the home country institutional environment, social entrepreneurship activities, and the likelihood of entrepreneurial internationalization. By employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the dissertation has reported the following conclusions for the first time in the literature. Social value orientation of ventures has been found to have a positive effect on the likelihood of internationalization for ventures. Social value orientation of ventures has been found to have a negative moderating role on the home country institutions–likelihood of internationalization relationship. The conduct of certain types of social interventions has been found to improve or reduce the likelihood of internationalization for the organizations in which social entrepreneurship activities take place. The findings of the dissertation can provide implications to both international entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship research and public policy.