Dong Jianing, Wang Xiao, Cao Xuanwei, Higgins David
International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.
Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 30;10:883153. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.883153. eCollection 2022.
In the context of a transitional economy, there are much more studies with a heroic characterization of social entrepreneurs, whereas there is limited exploration of their less positive stories. A range of studies tried to address this issue, although very few delved into the "inner layer" (work-related mental health) to unveil the mechanism of how social entrepreneurs develop their intention to quit their businesses. With a sample of 196 social business owners from China, this research focuses on the prosocial motivation of social entrepreneurs as well as its impacts on their work-related wellbeing and thus their business exit intention. With the partial least squares structural equation modeling, this research finds that prosocial motivation decreased entrepreneurs' partial work-related wellbeing, increasing their exit intention, and the mediating effects among the three components of work-related wellbeing were different. Furthermore, this research finds that work-related wellbeing's impact on exit intention was largely stronger for the social entrepreneurs without political connections.
在转型经济背景下，有更多关于社会企业家英雄式刻画的研究，而对他们不那么积极的故事的探索却很有限。一系列研究试图解决这个问题，尽管很少有研究深入到“内层”（与工作相关的心理健康）来揭示社会企业家产生退出企业意愿的机制。本研究以196名中国社会企业所有者为样本，关注社会企业家的亲社会动机及其对与工作相关的幸福感的影响，进而对其企业退出意愿的影响。通过偏最小二乘结构方程模型，本研究发现亲社会动机降低了企业家与工作相关的部分幸福感，增加了他们的退出意愿，并且与工作相关的幸福感三个组成部分之间的中介效应各不相同。此外，本研究发现，对于没有政治关系的社会企业家来说，与工作相关的幸福感对退出意愿的影响在很大程度上更强。
