Exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers
The role of perceived value fit and prestige
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12613748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saskia Crucke (0000-0001-8847-7396, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Ghent University Tweekerkenstraat 2 Ghent 9000 Belgium, corresponding author), Hanne Bockaert (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Ghent University Tweekerkenstraat 2 Ghent 9000 Belgium) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 399-422 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1370-4788 • E-ISSN: 1467-8292 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apce.12393 |
| OpenAlex | W4294622228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 64 |
Existing research indicates that job seekers are attracted to organizations demonstrating social responsibility. This seems especially true for commercial enterprises that engage in socially responsible practices, but is challenged in the case of social enterprises. While commercial enterprises stay focused on their primary aim of generating financial revenues when engaging in social responsibility, social enterprises’ social responsibility is primary and at the core of their business. However, the attractiveness of social enterprises on the job market has not been the focus of extant research. This study aims to enrich the academic literature by exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers. When studying job seekers’ intentions to pursue a job with a social enterprise, we also examine some of the underlying mechanisms that affect individuals’ attraction process to social enterprises. We perform an experimental design study involving 349 Belgian students about to graduate. The results reveal that participants’ intentions to pursue a job with a social enterprise are significantly lower in comparison to their job pursuit intentions with commercial enterprises. Furthermore, factors relating to personal values, like perceptions of value fit and individuals’ prosocial values, play a significant role in the attractiveness of social enterprises
Attractiveness · Business · Corporate social responsibility · Impression management · Political science · Prestige · Prosocial behavior · Public relations · Revenue · Seekers · Social responsibility · Value (mathematics · Employer Branding and e-HRM · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Psychology · Social Psychology · Marketing
Multivariate data analysis
Multilevel Analysis
Applicant Attraction to Organizations and Job Choice
Person–Organization Fit, Job Choice Decisions, and Organizational Entry
Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations
Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship
Consumer–Company Identification
The convergent and discriminant validity of subjective fit perceptions.
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations
Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises
Corporate Social Performance and Organizational Attractiveness to Prospective Employees.
The People Make the Place
Corporate Social Performance As a Competitive Advantage in Attracting a Quality Workforce
The value of value congruence.
Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States
Social Identity Theory and the Organization
The Emergence of Social Enterprise
Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises
Measuring Attraction to Organizations
Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis
The Nonprofit Worker in a For-Profit World
Social enterprise for work integration in 12 european countries
Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models
The psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility
Beyond Baron and Kenny
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |