Perceived social support and social entrepreneurship: Gender perspective from Turkey

Abstract

Entrepreneurship can be defined as a process of creating value by searching and creating some opportunities. Entrepreneurial organizations are known as the firms which do not abstain from taking risks while trying to create something new from different opportunities on the basis of organization, product, foundation, service, and process. Environment and society are the main factors for the entrepreneurs who should perfectly analyze the society for being beneficial to others. Gender is becoming popular as a new entrepreneurial field for creating an original idea. Today’s business world needs the coordination between personal issues and social issues while acting entrepreneurial. In this point, women become popular and play vital roles to be able to create different beneficial and entrepreneurial acts as a part of the society and global business environment. Besides men, the number of women entrepreneurs increase seriously day by day. The main purpose of this chapter is to find out and emphasize the importance of social entrepreneurship in business and social environment based on the perceived social support and its dimensions. Besides, traditional and social entrepreneurship, the status of male and female entrepreneurs, the features of entrepreneurs, and the relationship between perceived social support and social entrepreneurship with the participation of 302 undergraduate students from Mersin Toros University/Turkey will be emphasized and some suggestions will be noted to encourage people to become successful in the society and to develop upcoming future studies.