Spiritual capital serves as a unique resource that can contribute to entrepreneurial action. This paper develops the concept of religious social capital, as a distinct component of spiritual capital, and theorizes its role in motivating and supporting entrepreneurial action. This is important because individuals with religious affiliations are often deeply embedded within a religious community yielding strong and unique forms of social capital; and social capital in general is well established as a key driver of entrepreneurial action. The paper then elaborates the distinctive structural, cognitive and relational dimensions of religious social capital, and theorizes distinctive mechanisms by which these enable effective entrepreneurial action through community attention and community spanning.

精神资本是一种独特的资源，可以促进创业行动。本文发展了宗教社会资本的概念，将其作为精神资本的一个独特组成部分，并对其在激励和支持创业行动中的作用进行了理论阐述。这一点很重要，因为有宗教信仰的个人往往深深地融入宗教社区，从而产生强大而独特的社会资本；总体而言，社会资本已被确定为创业行动的关键驱动力。然后，本文阐述了宗教社会资本独特的结构、认知和关系维度，并理论化了独特的机制，通过这些机制，这些机制可以通过社区关注和社区跨越来实现有效的创业行动。