Graduate Students’ Behavioral Intention towards Social Entrepreneurship: Role of Social Vision, Innovativeness, Social Proactiveness, and Risk Taking

Bingyan Tu, Roni Bhowmik, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Ahmed Al Asheq, Md. Atikur Rahaman and Xia Chen
Additional contact information
Bingyan Tu: School of Economy & Management, Jiujiang Vocational University, Jiujiang 332005, China
Roni Bhowmik: School of Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China
Md. Kamrul Hasan: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Studies, BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
Ahmed Al Asheq: Department of Business Administration, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
Md. Atikur Rahaman: School of Management, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang 332005, China
Xia Chen: School of Management, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang 332005, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-23

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.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurial orientation; social entrepreneurial attitudes; social entrepreneurial intention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/6386/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/6386/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:11:p:6386-:d:568724

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().