Brown Bag Seminar: The Social Entrepreneurial Intentions Scale (SEIS): A Validation Study

Abstract. This paper builds on and extends the work of Mair and Noboa (2006) on the antecedents of social entrepreneurial intentions. The Mair/Noboa model draws on Krueger’s  (1993) proposal of a theory of planned behavior for entrepreneurial intention formation by suggesting that social entrepreneurial intentions are driven by an individual’s perceived desirability and perceived feasibility of starting a social venture. This article proposes and validates measures of the antecedents of social entrepreneurial intentions. The resulting Social Entrepreneurial Intentions Scale (SEIS) adapts constructs such as empathy, moral obligation, self-efficacy, and social support to the context of social entrepreneurship and thus provides the basis for future research into the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship education.

What do you get out of it? Apart from learning about Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB) and how it is applied in social entrepreneurship I will also share with you my experiences as a qualitative researcher in doing quantitative work in particular survey design, factor analysis, and regressions.

What would I like to get out of it? I plan to submit this paper to the Journal of Business Ethics by the end of April. I would, therefore, like to get short-range feed-back on how to improve the paper. Moreover, I would like to discuss how to design my future research in which I want to use the SEIS to study the effectiveness of our social entrepreneurship education at CBS.

Presenter: Kai Hockerts

Time: April 12, 12.00-13.00

Place: PH18A, ground floor (kitchen area)