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…