Research Tidbits

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at understanding social entrepreneurs. Who are social entrepreneurs and what drives them? This paper questions the taken-for-granted moral portrayal depicted in the extant literature and popular media of the devoted social entrepreneurial hero with a priori good ethical and moral credentials. Sophie Bacq, Chantal Hartog & Brigitte Hoogendoorn confront this somewhat idealistic and biased portrayal with insights from unique large-scale data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2009 [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently about leadership's effects on followers. When and why empowering leadership increases followers’ taking charge in China Drawing from the cultural self-representation model, the authors propose a multilevel model to examine when and why empowering leadership elicits followers’ taking charge behaviours in China. Data from 310 full-time employees in 81 work groups provide support for the mediating role of role breadth self-efficacy in transforming team-directed empowering leadership into individual [...]