...Awele Achi Purpose Building on insights from the upper echelons theory and resource-based view (RBV), this study explains how directors’ exposure influences social enterprise performance through the mediating effect of entrepreneurial mindset, and the contingent role of financial resource...

... (SMEs) on firm performance from an upper echelons perspective. The authors also examine how board-specific characteristics influence the structural makeup of boards in gender and nationality diversity terms. Design/methodology/approach The authors focus on the UK because of its individualistic...

... measurement by applying specific outcomes on the enterprise, community and societal levels to investigate whether a firm’s EO leads to the desired outcomes. Founders’ social identity Entrepreneurial orientation Upper echelons Social entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is defined...