Social entrepreneurship in young people: Analysis of their relationship with other forms of social participation

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is a relatively novel phenomenon in our country, but despite its importance to the third sector and potential connections to other more traditional forms of social participation, there are hardly any studies that have addressed the analysis of such relationships. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the disposition of young people to engage in social entrepreneurship, to study the relationships between entrepreneurship and other forms of social participation, and its relationship with the moral obligation to participate socially in order to determine the extent to which the entrepreneurship paradigm has penetrated among young people as a formula for addressing social problems. Through a paper questionnaire, 261 university students provided information on the previous issues. The results evidence the existence of significant relationships between social entrepreneurship and other forms of social participation. The intention to start social entrepreneurship is lower to the intention to implement other forms of fundamentally civic participation. Finally, moral obligation only predicts the intention to undertake socially through its relationship with the intention of developing other forms of social participation. The results are discussed.