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,...

Grand societal challenges (GSCs) represent complex, multi-level, multi-dimensional problems that require concerted efforts by various actors –public, private, and non-profit–to be successfully addressed. Businesses –alone or in conjunction with governmental and non-profit organizations...

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...

The chapter examines to what extent research from social cognitive neuroscience can inform ethical leadership. We evaluate the contribution of brain research to the understanding of ethical leaders as moral persons, as well the understanding of their role as moral managers. The areas of social...

Ten years ago UN-Secretary-General Kofi Annan called upon global business leaders to join the fight against human rights violations, inhumane working conditions, the rising threat of pollution and the spreading problem of corruption thereby proposing the Global Compact Initiative as a mean to...

Earth's life support system is facing mega-problems of sustainability. One important way of how these problems can be addressed is through innovation. This paper argues that responsible innovation that contributes to sustainable development consists of three dimensions: (1) innovations avoid...