Chen Jinliang, Chen Ning Chris, Yu Kangkang, Hall Colin Michael
Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
Department of Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Front Psychol. 2021 Dec 14;12:781399. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.781399. eCollection 2021.
Although the impact of entrepreneurs' social identity on successful entrepreneurship has attracted much scholarly attention, it is often to evaluate successful entrepreneurship through direct channel to financial performance. Recently, there is a growing body of researches beginning to pay attention to the impact of entrepreneurs' social identity on corporate social responsibility (CSR) regarded as indirect social aspect channel to successful entrepreneurship. However, little is known regarding how entrepreneurs' Darwinian social identity affects CSR, which in turn, affects business performance. This study addresses this issue by combining stakeholder theory with social identity theory, to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurs' Darwinian social identity and business performance via CSR. In addition, the moderating effect of entrepreneur's well-being is further examined to uncover the interaction effect of the individual psychological resource on business performance. The empirical results indicate that entrepreneurs' Darwinian social identity contributes positively to CSR, so as further to business performance. In addition, this relationship is further found to be significantly moderated by entrepreneurs' well-being. The results indicate that entrepreneurs can achieve business success via CSR, by which entrepreneurs can further acquire successful entrepreneurship through caring more about their well-being.
尽管企业家的社会身份对成功创业的影响已引起学界广泛关注，但人们往往通过直接影响财务绩效的渠道来评估成功创业。最近，越来越多的研究开始关注企业家的社会身份对企业社会责任（CSR）的影响，企业社会责任被视为通往成功创业的间接社会层面渠道。然而，关于企业家的达尔文式社会身份如何影响企业社会责任进而影响企业绩效，我们所知甚少。本研究通过将利益相关者理论与社会身份理论相结合来解决这一问题，以探讨企业家的达尔文式社会身份与通过企业社会责任实现的企业绩效之间的关系。此外，进一步考察企业家幸福感的调节作用，以揭示个体心理资源对企业绩效的交互影响。实证结果表明，企业家的达尔文式社会身份对企业社会责任有积极贡献，进而对企业绩效也有积极贡献。此外，还发现这种关系受到企业家幸福感的显著调节。结果表明，企业家可以通过企业社会责任实现商业成功，借此企业家可以通过更多地关注自身幸福感来进一步获得成功创业。
