Intentions to adopt ecopreneurship: moderating role of collectivism and altruism

Farida Saleem (), Ahmad Adeel (), Rizwan Ali () and Shabir Hyder ()
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Farida Saleem: University of Lahore, Pakistan
Ahmad Adeel: University of Lahore, Pakistan
Rizwan Ali: University of Lahore, Pakistan
Shabir Hyder: COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2018, vol. 6, issue 2, 517-537

Abstract: There is need to understand the importance of sustainability of economies by the students especially undergoing business education and look for avenues that provide support to sustainability, in which ecopreneurship is one. The current study examines the intentions to adopt ecopreneurship while extending theory of planned behavior model by including the dual moderating role of collectivism and altruism while taking developing country context as field of analysis. Data were collected from students of two universities located in a rural district and student participants of entrepreneurship training workshop. Results show that ecopreneurship is mainly driven by subjective norms and self-efficacy while attitude towards ecopreneurship become significant in presence of collectivism and altruism not otherwise. Similarly, the dual moderating role of collectivism and altruism has been identified by the significance of three-way interactions for attitude, subjective norms and self-efficacy with collectivism and altruism respectively.

Keywords: sustainability; ecopreneurship; collectivism; altruism; theory of planned behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 L26 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2018.6.2(4)

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