How does the grand challenge of refugees influence nascent entrepreneurs in host countries? To explore this question, we build on social identity theory and analyse how the 2015 European refugee event is related to the strength of different founder social identities (i.e. Darwinian,...

How can we close the gender gap in social entrepreneurship? Female-only competitions might be an answer. In two studies, we test the effectiveness of offering female-only competitions to increase women’s willingness to compete compared to men’s. For this purpose, we used real-effort tasks...