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Religion and Social Entrepreneurship

In: Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship

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  • Roger Spear

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This chapter is concerned with the role of religion in social entrepreneurship. It takes an institutional perspective and examines the way religious institutions and actors have supported social entrepreneurship. Max Weber has argued for the role of (Protestant) religion in motivating people to take entrepreneurial activity, leading to the rise of capitalism in the West. It has often been observed that religious groups, especially sects or minority religious groups such as Quakers or Jews, have strong links with entrepreneurial activity—there are a range of factors in the literature which help us explain this. These include in particular the place of high trust networks in facilitating entrepreneurial activity. In addition, religious institutions (through leadership discourse and institutional networks) have historically played important roles in shaping the activities of religious members and priests as well as philanthropists. This has operated through religious leadership discourse, for example papal encyclicals orienting priests to support economic solutions to poverty and social problems in their communities, and the direct action of individual priests, institutional development (networks/organizations) and local religious leaders to catalyse entrepreneurial activity. Thus these three dimensions of religious institutions (ideological discourse, networks and leadership) will be examined in relation to social entrepreneurship.

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  • Roger Spear, 2010. "Religion and Social Entrepreneurship," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kai Hockerts & Johanna Mair & Jeffrey Robinson (ed.), Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship, chapter 3, pages 31-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29802-6_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230298026_3
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    1. Alamad, Samir & Hidayah, Nunung Nurul & Lowe, Alan, 2021. "A shared boundary object: Financial innovation and engineering in Islamic financial institutions," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(3).
    2. Sousa-Filho, José Milton de & Matos, Stelvia & da Silva Trajano, Samara & de Souza Lessa, Bruno, 2020. "Determinants of social entrepreneurial intentions in a developing country context," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 14(C).
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    4. Ruben Werven, 2024. "Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 62(4), pages 1361-1382, April.
    5. McIntyre, Nancy & Silva Quaye, Emmanuel & Anning-Dorson, Thomas & Lanivich, Stephen & Adomako, Samuel, 2023. "Investigating the impact of religiosity on entrepreneurial intentions," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).

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