Is It so Severe for Social Entrepreneurship in a Transitional Economy? The Role of Work-Related Wellbeing and Political Connection in Shaping the Exit Intention

Dong, Jianing, Wang, Xiao, Cao, Xuanwei and Higgins, David ORCID: 0000-0002-3685-5495 (2022) Is It so Severe for Social Entrepreneurship in a Transitional Economy? The Role of Work-Related Wellbeing and Political Connection in Shaping the Exit Intention. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 10. 883153-.

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Abstract

In the context of a transitional economy, there are much more studies with a heroic characterization of social entrepreneurs, whereas there is limited exploration of their less positive stories. A range of studies tried to address this issue, although very few delved into the "inner layer" (work-related mental health) to unveil the mechanism of how social entrepreneurs develop their intention to quit their businesses. With a sample of 196 social business owners from China, this research focuses on the prosocial motivation of social entrepreneurs as well as its impacts on their work-related wellbeing and thus their business exit intention. With the partial least squares structural equation modeling, this research finds that prosocial motivation decreased entrepreneurs' partial work-related wellbeing, increasing their exit intention, and the mediating effects among the three components of work-related wellbeing were different. Furthermore, this research finds that work-related wellbeing's impact on exit intention was largely stronger for the social entrepreneurs without political connections.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social entrepreneur, entrepreneurial exit intention, prosocial motivation, transitional economy, work-related wellbeing, political connection
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2022 15:49
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 20:54
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2022.883153
Open Access URL:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3159598