More Prosocial, More Ephemeral? Exploring the Formation of a Social Entrepreneur's Exit Intention via Life Satisfaction

Dong, Jianing, Wang, Xiao, Cao, Xuanwei and Higgins, David ORCID: 0000-0002-3685-5495 (2022) More Prosocial, More Ephemeral? Exploring the Formation of a Social Entrepreneur's Exit Intention via Life Satisfaction. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19 (12). 6966-.

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Abstract

This study was designed to test if satisfaction with health and personal financial wellbeing mediates the relationship between prosocial motivations and exit intentions among social entrepreneurs. Using a sample of 317 social entrepreneurs, the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) revealed that prosocial motivation decreased the financial satisfaction of entrepreneurs, which increased their exit intentions. However, health satisfaction did not have a mediating effect on the relationship between prosocial motivation and exit intention. Moreover, adopting the multi-group analysis (MGA) technique, we found that the negative impact of prosocial motivation on financial satisfaction was stronger for males than for females, suggesting male entrepreneurs were more likely to experience lower financial satisfaction caused by prosocial motivation than female entrepreneurs. There was no evidence that gender moderated the relationship between prosocial motivation and health satisfaction.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social entrepreneur, exit intention, prosocial motivation, life satisfaction, gender
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2022 15:29
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 20:55
DOI:	10.3390/ijerph19126966
Open Access URL:	https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/6966
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3159205