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...

Inconsistent information between an organization’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments and perceived CSR (in-)action is a big challenge for organizations because this is typically associated with perceptions of corporate hypocrisy and related negative stakeholder reactions....

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,...

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...

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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, whether an employee training program can enhance the collective perception of empowerment of work units within an organization. The authors hypothesized that training participation relates to empowerment by...