How to encourage social entrepreneurship action? Using Web 2.0 technologies in higher education institutions
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Materia
Learning CSR Social entrepreneurship Web 2.0 strategic support Web 2.0 technology use Absorptive capacity
Date
2020Referencia bibliográfica
García-Morales, V. J., Martín-Rojas, R., & Garde-Sánchez, R. (2020). How to encourage social entrepreneurship action? Using Web 2.0 technologies in higher education institutions. Journal of Business Ethics, 161, 329-350.
Sponsorship
This study was funded by the project from the Ministry of Economy, Industry y Competitivity ECO2017-88222-P, and by the Andalusian Government Project P11-SEJ-7988.Abstract
University students will be our future business leaders, and will have to address social problems caused by business by
implementing solutions such as social entrepreneurship ventures. In order to facilitate the learning process that will foster
social entrepreneurship, however, a more holistic pedagogy is needed. Based on learning theory, we propose that students’
social entrepreneurship actions will depend on their learning about CSR and their absorptive capacity. We propose that
instructors and higher education institutions can enhance this absorptive capacity by exploiting Web 2.0 technologies. We
tested our proposition with a sample of 425 university students using structural equation modeling and found support for
the proposed relationships.