Study of success factors of social entrepreneurship in terms of entrepreneurial individuality and transformational leadership

Social entrepreneurship includes innovative activities carried out by organization which was constructed to solve the social problems. However, the term ?social entrepreneur?, defines people who work to reach social aims rather than financial profit. Although the concepts ?entrepreneurship? and ?social entrepreneur? have been used since 1980?s, they have been phenomenon for so long. It can be said that there have been social entrepreneurship activities in every society all along.In this study, need for achievement, risk propensity, tolerance of ambiguity, innovativeness which are among the individual-psychological factors that affect Idealized Influence/ charisma, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, Individualized Consideration which are characteristics of a transformational leader, on the factors of having a social mission, creating social value, creating social value recognizing social opportunities, creating resources and maintaining sustainability and benefiting from social networks which are sub-dimensions of social entrepreneurship and the relationships among these factors were researched.The research was carried out on families, environment, children, education, the handicapped, women, directors of non-governmental organizations that conduct activity in the fields of health and aid. The data were collected over the website through survey method, face to face meetings and fax. 223 surveys were acquired and these analyses were carried out through these surveys. Structural equation modeling was used in the analysis of these data. In addition, confirmative factor analysis; correlation analysis; t-test; Tukey HSD test and unilateral variance analysis were used as benefits.As a result of these analyses, it was found that the leaders of non-governmental organizations have a very high sense of transformational leadership, a high sense of achievement need and being innovative which are individual-psychological factors that affect entrepreneurship, a moderate sense of willingness to take risk and being tolerant of uncertainty.As a consequence, interactions among entrepreneurship; transformational leadership and social entrepreneurship were researched in this study and important relationships were determined among these three concepts. It is aimed that findings obtained from this study will contribute to social entrepreneurship literature.Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurships, Social Entrepreneur, Transformational Leadership, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)