The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation
通过高阶验证性因子分析，识别并验证了社会企业社会与经济使命的维度与测量方法，揭示两者关系，为后续定量假设检验研究奠定基础。
Social entrepreneurs have a dominant social mission and generate revenue to ensure financial viability. However, most research treats the extent to which social entrepreneurs actually adhere to social and economic mission as a black box. Performing higher order confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of social enterprises (N∼270), this study identifies dimensions and validates measures for understanding and delineating social and economic missions, and shows how the two constructs relate to each other. The theoretical untangling and the empirical validation of social and economic missions as distinct constructs—and multiple potential constellations of attached relative importance—opens up opportunities for quantitative hypothesis–testing research in social entrepreneurship.