Yangcheng Hu and Xiaoling Pang, "Social Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance of Nonprofit Organizations: An Empirical Study in China", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2013.
The study developed a Social entrepreneurship orientation(SEO) scale of nonprofit organizations with four factors and 11 items;
measure social entrepreneurial , it is important at first to establish an operationalization of the competence to be dealt with. For example in entrepreneurial education there is a certain consensus about the knowledge, skills and attitudes that characterize the entrepreneurial profile.