Individual capital and social entrepreneurship: Role of formal institutions Authors 1. Sreevas Sahasranamam (Corresponding Author) Lecturer & Chancellor's Fellow, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, UK Email:
[email protected] Phone: +44 - 0141 548 4598 2. M.K. Nandakumar Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) IIMK Campus P. O., Kozhikode, Kerala, India PIN - 673 570 Email:
[email protected] Phone: +91 (0) 495-280-9256 Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the Editors and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions during the review process. They have engaged in a constructive dialogue and this has helped us to improve the manuscript substantially. The first author will like to thank Strategic Management Society (SMS)’s Strategic Research Foundation (SRF) dissertation fellow grant (Grant no: SRF-DP2014-132) for its funding support and mentoring in developing this manuscript. Forthcoming in Journal of Business Research 1 ABSTRACT Drawing on capital theory and institutional theory, we hypothesize the contingent role of a country’s formal institutions (financial, educational, and political) on the relationship between individual capital (financial, human and social capital) and social entrepreneurship entry. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data, we find that all three forms of individual capital are important for social entrepreneurship entry. Moreover, we find that this relationship is contingent on the formal institutional context such that (i) philanthropy-oriented financial systems have a positive moderating effect on investment of financial capital; (ii) educational systems have a positive moderating effect on investment of human capital; and (iii) political systems have a positive moderating effect on investment of both human and financial capital.