Abstract:
We explored stewardship behaviour as a possible antecedent to the
activities of a social entrepreneur towards providing desired sustainable
solutions. Extant literature posits that social entrepreneurs are predominantly
guided in their sustainable solutions by ex-ante and ex-post resource
positions. Resource availability guides the social entrepreneur’s behaviour
which per se is not different from the behaviour of a profit-seeking
entrepreneur. We contend that apart from resource considerations,
stewardship is also an important behavioural consideration for social
entrepreneurial activities. We used a single embedded inductive case
study to establish the linkage between stewardship behaviour and social
entrepreneur leading to desired sustainable solutions in the context of
the health care sector in institutionally weak economies like India.
