Sustainable entrepreneurship: Exploring the direct and indirect effect of innovativeness on performance

• Autor(a) principal: Broccia, Sarah
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28072
• topic: Innovativeness; Entrepreneurial self-efficacy; Social entrepreneurial self-efficacy; Organizational capabilities; Philanthropic CSR; Inovação; Autoeficácia empreendedora; Autoeficácia empreendedora social; Capacidades organizacionais; RSC filantrópica

Sustainable entrepreneurship creates value beyond profit. Its role is increasingly important in addressing issues related to environmental challenges. Sustainable entrepreneurs can represent the tool to attain the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations, that address climate change, social injustice, human rights, and economic growth. To solve these environmental challenges there is a need for high-performing sustainable entrepreneurs. The role of innovativeness, organizational capabilities, and philanthropic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the performance of sustainable entrepreneurs is still underexplored. Hence, this study proposes an analysis of the indirect and direct effects of innovativeness on entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and social entrepreneurial self-efficacy (SESE) and the mediating role of organizational capabilities and philanthropic CSR. Findings from a survey of 116 sustainable entrepreneurs from structural equation modeling and importance-performance matrix analysis, identified a positive relationship between innovativeness and ESE, organizational capabilities, and philanthropic CSR. The indirect relationship mediated by organizational capabilities was found positive, and for philanthropic CSR it resulted positive for SESE but negative for ESE. Interestingly, it was found that SESE is only positively influenced in indirect relations. This study contributes to the literature on how innovativeness can promote ESE and SESE and the role of organizational capabilities and philanthropic CSR in enhancing performance in sustainable entrepreneurs.