Why someone become social entrepreneurs after exposing a trigger event while others don't: A new comprehensive model for social entrepreneurial intention formation

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship has raised increasing interest among scholars, yet we still know relatively little about the particular dynamics and processes involved. For the entrepreneurial event model, why do some people encounter trigger events to generate entrepreneurial behavior, while others do not? To explore this issue, it is necessary to discover the critical both proximal and distal factors influencing the formation process of intention. This study aims to contribute to the social entrepreneurship field by clarifying and introducing new critical elements, providing operating definitions, and illuminating the social entrepreneurship formation process. Our study extends the prior classical research model (entrepreneurial event model and social entrepreneurial model) with the new dynamic constructs (perceived fit and value congruence) and contributes to offering empirical evidence.