Social entrepreneurship has emerged as an important means of addressing grand challenges. Although research on the topic has accelerated, scholars have yet to articulate an overarching framework that links the different pathways taken by social entrepreneurs with the positive effects of these...

How can we close the gender gap in social entrepreneurship? Female-only competitions might be an answer. In two studies, we test the effectiveness of offering female-only competitions to increase women’s willingness to compete compared to men’s. For this purpose, we used real-effort tasks...

How does the grand challenge of refugees influence nascent entrepreneurs in host countries? To explore this question, we build on social identity theory and analyse how the 2015 European refugee event is related to the strength of different founder social identities (i.e. Darwinian,...