THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IN YEMEN: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Nowadays, the need for social entrepreneurship is highly emphasized as a fast and efficient tool to address complex socio-economic and humanitarian crises that today's world is plagued more than ever in history. Despite the general recognition that personality traits are important for social entrepreneurial activity, there is currently no insight into which traits make up the social entrepreneurial personality. Number of authors argued that social entrepreneurs share many personality traits with commercial entrepreneurs besides they are also characterized by distinct social traits. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the combined effect of classical entrepreneurial orientation and prosocial orientation as elements of social entrepreneurial personality on social entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, this study aims to fulfil this gap by proposing a conceptual framework on the combined effect of both classical entrepreneurial orientation (risk-taking, innovativeness, proactivity) and prosocial orientation (empathy and social responsibility) as elements of social entrepreneurial personality on social entrepreneurial intention among university graduates in Yemen. This framework could be useful for universities and other stakeholders to produce graduates with holistic social entrepreneurship traits that guide them to choose social entrepreneurship as a viable career path.