Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model

Hameed Asghar Sana, Salem Alkhalaf, Salman Zulfiqar, Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan and Anas Ratib AlSoud
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Hameed Asghar Sana: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Salem Alkhalaf: Department of Computer, College of Science and Arts in Ar Rass, Qassim University, Ar Rass 1162, Saudi Arabia
Salman Zulfiqar: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi: Computer Science Department, Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh 11437, Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan: Electronic Business and Commerce Department, Al Ahliyya Amman University Jordan, Balqa Governorate 19328, Jordan
Anas Ratib AlSoud: Electronic Business and Commerce Department, Al Ahliyya Amman University Jordan, Balqa Governorate 19328, Jordan

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-23

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship has recently become a much-desired area of research for academia, practices, and policymaking. Natural or cognitive personal thoughtfulness like loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion trigger individual intentions towards the social entrepreneurial venture. In this process of individual social entrepreneurial intention personality trait plays a very vital role, such as entrepreneurship resilience. For this study, a purposive sampling technique was incorporated and data was collected from 631 business and management sciences students. Data is analyzed by SPSS 23 and for the hypothesis testing, we used the bootstrap analysis of Hayes PROCESS v3.5. This study depicts that LKM has a positive significant impact on compassion and no significant impact on social entrepreneurship intentions while resilience strengthens the direct relationship of compassion with social entrepreneurship and the indirect relationship of LKM with social entrepreneurship via compassion. This study contributes to solving the economic and social problems over the globe especially by boosting the LKM and resilience traits so that the young graduate commence social entrepreneurship. This study helps the academician and policymakers to adopt strategies through which they can encourage youth to indulge in social entrepreneurial ventures solve the social problem and decrease unemployment.

Keywords: LKM; compassion; entrepreneurship resilience; social entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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