Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and Impact Scores of Small-Size Certified Benefit Corporations (CBCs). A Configurational Analysis of 17 Countries

The urgent need that the private sector generate positive social and environmental impacts in order to cope with grand challenges faced by humanity contribute sustainable development, has ignited understand country conditions could promote such an endeavor, especially for small firms who may have more difficulties and, among them, those try multiple stakeholders, as Certified B Corporations (CBCs). To understanding, we use fsQCA identify combinations of presence/absence four entrepreneurial framework (EFCs)—financing entrepreneurs, taxes bureaucracy, R&D transfer, commercial legal infrastructure—that are sufficient a high average impact score small-size CBCs country. analysis reveals two considered EFCs presence another absence outcome. General patterns, specific implications policymakers, managers future research discussed.