Compassion as motivational driver of social entrepreneurship among entrepreneurial students in Manila

In the world of business, Social Entrepreneurship has become a global phenomenon that evidently brought a great influence in the lives of many people. It incessantly reshapes the world by creating opportunities and providing solutions that can potentially transform lives both at the local and national level. It addresses various social problems that have long plagued humankind such as poverty, homelessness, unemployment, pollution, among others. This study looked into “compassion” as a motivating factor for the likelihood of to pursue social entrepreneurship. It aims to find out if entrepreneurial students are motivated to help alleviate other people’s suffering and end social problems. Results showed that compassion, as a prosocial motivator of integrative thinking, prosocial cost benefit analysis and commitment in alleviating other people’s suffering, plays a key role in the likelihood to engage in social entrepreneurship. However, the paper does not suggest that compassion is unique to social entrepreneurship