Tu, Bingyan and Bhowmik, Roni and Hasan, Md. Kamrul and Asheq, Ahmed Al and Rahaman, Md. Atikur and Chen, Xia (2021) Graduate Students’ Behavioral Intention towards Social Entrepreneurship: Role of Social Vision, Innovativeness, Social Proactiveness, and Risk Taking. Sustainability, 13 (11). p. 6386. ISSN 2071-1050

Download (1MB)

Abstract

In prior studies, several researchers have adopted entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in determining students’ intention toward entrepreneurship, although the application of EO is scant in determining intention toward social entrepreneurship in existing literature. Hence, in consideration of this research gap, the current study empirically examines the influence of the dimensions of social entrepreneurial orientation (SEO): social vision, social proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking motive on graduate students’ entrepreneurial intention toward social entrepreneurship-based business start-up. An online-based survey method was used to collect data from a sample of 465 students purposively who were studying at different universities in Bangladesh. A PLS-based SEM was applied to analyze the data and examined the proposed relationships in the conceptual model. The findings reveal that Graduate students’ social proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking motive significantly affect their social entrepreneurial intention. However, students’ social vision does not have direct influence but has indirect influence on social entrepreneurial intention through their social entrepreneurial attitudes. The research contributes to the body of knowledge in the existing social entrepreneurship literature as well as provides practical implications for the policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders working toward flourishing of social-based entrepreneurship, venture, and start-up.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	social entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurial orientation; social entrepreneurial attitudes; social entrepreneurial intention;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
Item ID:	18693
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116386
Depositing User:	IR Editor
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2024 07:58
Journal or Publication Title:	Sustainability
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

Repository Staff Only(login required)

Item control page

Downloads

Origin of downloads