Micro-Foundations of Prosocial Venturing

This symposium aims to unveil new insights into how individuals’ and teams’ self-views, values, cognitions, actions, interactions, and relationships as micro-foundations of prosocial venturing contribute to how prosocial ventures emerge, function, meet the needs of diverse stakeholders, maintain their mission, and create a better world. In particular, the symposium draws attention to the individuals engaged in prosocial venturing as employees, leaders, and entrepreneurs with diverse and dynamic values and self-views and to relational mechanisms, such as shared routines, contact with beneficiaries and diverse methods to engage with stakeholders, along the prosocial venturing process. By integrating cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative empirical studies from different contexts in the Global South (i.e., Philippines, Bangladesh) and the Global North (e.g., United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States) from post-communist (China, Russia, Hungary, Romania) and established Western democratic states (Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), this symposium provides a nuanced view of the micro-foundations of prosocial venturing from intentions and opportunity development to pivoting and responding to crises in established organizations. Becoming a Social Change Agent: Self-Evaluations for Social Change in Social Entrepreneurship Presenter: Elisa Alt; King's College London Presenter: Ute Stephan; King's College London “We Are All Entrepreneurs Now”: Becoming Pluralists in Early Stage Hybrid Organizing Presenter: Isobel O'Neil; U. of Nottingham Presenter: Deniz Ucbasaran; U. of Warwick Venture Changes as Identity Work: Responding to Identity-implicating Experiences During a Crisis Presenter: Andreana Drencheva; King's College London Presenter: Wee Chan Au; Newcastle U. Business School Opportunity Development as a Collective Process: The Case of Community Energy Groups Presenter: Emma Catharina Folmer; Groningen U. (RuG) Presenter: Anna Rebmann; King's College London Presenter: Charlotte Johnson; U. College London Presenter: Esther An Der Waal; U. of Groningen The Values of Social Enterprise Leaders: Distinctiveness and Heterogeneity across Contexts Presenter: Ute Stephan; King's College London Presenter: Johanna Mair; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Marieke Huysentruyt; HEC Paris