ABSTRACT
In recent years, social entrepreneurship is gaining research interest. Likewise, the existence of differences between women and men in entrepreneurship has been the subject of much debate. Focusing entrepreneurship as a social change activity with a variety of possible outcomes, this chapter will allow the consideration of new ideas about if women and men from two different regions (southern Spain and northern Morocco) have the same perceptions in the context of social entrepreneurship. This chapter aims to fill these two gaps in the literature, examining the perceptions of social self-efficacy, passion and intention toward the start of new social business and how that variables influence the entrepreneurial intention as compared these two different cultural contexts. A sample of 752 university students from Morocco and Spain with skills in management took part in the study. Our findings showed that Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Passion fit as antecedents of Social Entrepreneurial Intention for women and men, although the relations are weaker for women. However, the gender differences detected are greater in Spain (more developed country and with a higher equality index) than in Morocco. The implications of these results are discussed.
