Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Zuhui  Xu; Zhiyang Liu; Jie Wu

doi:10.1007/s11187-021-00570-w

Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Zuhui Xu, Zhiyang Liu^* (Corresponding Author), Jie Wu^* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

To address the lacuna of how informal institutions like Buddhism impact social entrepreneurship in different regions within a nation, this research draws on the social entrepreneurship literature and the regional Buddhist research to propose a mediating framework where the percentage of Buddhist entrepreneurs in a region is positively associated both with the level of prosocial behaviors such as charity, due to the values of Buddhism, and with the probability of establishing businesses in a less-developed region. It further proposes that charitable behaviors mediate the relationship between the percentage of Buddhist entrepreneurs in a region and establishing
businesses in less-developed regions. This mediating effect is attributed to the mechanism that charitable behaviors absorb the limited resources of entrepreneurs, reducing their resources for establishing businesses in
less-developed regions. We test these hypotheses on nationwide surveys of founders of private enterprises and find support for this mediating view. Broad implications for theoretical and empirical research are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1197–1217
Number of pages	21
Journal	Small Business Economics
Volume	59
Early online date	24 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00570-w
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2022

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Acknowledgements
We thank the Editor-in-Chief Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch, the anonymous reviewers, and Shaker A. Zahra and Yong Li for their helpful comments and suggestions.The usual disclaimers apply.

Funding
The authors acknowledge funding from the National Social Science Foundation of China (grant number: 20AGL008), National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 72172056) and the General Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province (grant number: 2020SJA0254).

Keywords

Buddhism
informal institution
social entrepreneurship
Prosocial Behavior
China

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