Social Entrepreneurial Intention and the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Structural Model

Inés Ruiz-Rosa, Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño and Francisco J. García-Rodríguez ()
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Inés Ruiz-Rosa: Departamento de Economía, Contabilidad y Finanzas, Facultad de Economía, Empresa y Turismo, Universidad de La Laguna, 38071 San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño: Departamento de Dirección de Empresas e Historia Económica, Facultad de Economía, Empresa y Turismo, Universidad de La Laguna, 38071 San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-17

Abstract: The interest in promoting social entrepreneurship projects lies in their ability to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental problems. This ability becomes even more important in situations of global crises such as that arising from COVID-19. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), an explanatory structural model of social entrepreneurial intention was tested, and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on this intention was evaluated. To do this, a quantitative investigation was conducted using a survey of Spanish university students, obtaining a total of 558 responses: 324 before the COVID-19 crisis and 234 during the crisis period (February and June 2020). The results obtained make it possible to validate the explanatory model of social entrepreneurial intention from the perspective of the TPB. In addition, it shows that social entrepreneurial intention decreases in times of deep socioeconomic crises and high uncertainty, such as that caused by COVID-19.

Keywords: social entrepreneurial intention; social entrepreneurship; COVID-19; theory of planned behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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