"Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a helpful instrument
of social and economic policy. The European Commission, namely, has recognized
very early the importance of social organizations on economic growth and social
innovation, through their contribution for the development of societies endowed
with better levels of democracy, activism and social cohesion. Having that in
mind, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of
the link between social entrepreneurship and institutional environment in
Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, and primary data were
collected through an online survey. A questionnaire was emailed to, both,
Portuguese Non-Governmental Organizations and projects available on the
Portuguese Social Stock Exchange. In the analysis of the data we used
descriptive statistics, factorial analysis and t-student tests to validate (or
not) the research hypotheses. The results show that a favorable institutional
environment (social, institutional) seems to have a low influence on the
decision-making process related to the creation of new social entrepreneurial initiatives.
Conversely, the sense individuals hold about the skills required to develop the
new venture and the previous knowledge that their action will produce a
desirable outcome have a significant weight on their decision. This conclusion
supports the idea that many social entrepreneurs can emerge even in developing
regions where the institutional environment is weak. Therefore, social
entrepreneurship could be an instrument of regional development and contribute
to attenuate the social and economic differences among Portuguese regions."
Susana
Bernardino
J. Freitas
Santos
J. Cadima
Ribeiro
(título e resumo de comunicação a apresentar no 55th ERSA Congress (ERSA 2015), a decorrer em Lisboa de 25 a 29 de Agosto pf.)
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