Social venture scaling: Does the technological environment matter?
基于美国县级数据，研究发现技术禀赋（专利存量）和技术套利机会正向影响社会企业规模化，但技术禀赋增长会降低创业紧迫性从而产生负向影响，而技术套利机会增长则因加剧社会问题而正向促进规模化。
In a generalizable multi-year sample of U.S. counties, we demonstrate that horizontal scaling of social ventures is explained by technological factors including technological endowment (patent stock) and the availability of technological arbitrage opportunity, as well as the growth in these two factors over time. Both the technological endowment and the availability of technological arbitrage opportunity are positively related to social venture scaling. However, growth in the technological endowment eases the pressure on social entrepreneurs to act thus exerting negative impact on social venture scaling. At the same time, growth in the availability of technological arbitrage opportunity indicates that the relative efficiency within the county lags behind the frontier established by the leading counties, which may exacerbate social ills to which social entrepreneurs respond. Accordingly, it exerts a positive impact on social venture scaling observed.