This study aimed to investigate the effect of personality traits on social entrepreneurial intention by extending Mair and Noboa’s (2006) model. Data were collected from a sample survey of 503 individuals. The four-step method suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986) was followed to test the mediational roles of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility in the relationship between six personality traits (need for achievement, risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, proactiveness, empathy and moral obligations) and social entrepreneurial intention. The results showed that the two mediators fully mediated the effects of proactiveness on social entrepreneurial intention, whereas both the mediators were found partially mediating the impact of moral obligation on social entrepreneurial intention. In addition, only perceived feasibility fully mediated the effects of innovativeness on social entrepreneurial intention and partially mediated the effects of empathy. These research results are expected to trigger a change in social entrepreneurship education by cultivating personality traits towards sustainable development. This study’s originality lies in its exploration of potential social entrepreneurs’ personality traits as a combination of general entrepreneurial and social entrepreneurial traits.

This paper aims to apply Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to investigate social entrepreneurial intention factors. In particular, the impacts of social entrepreneurship education and prior experience with social organizations on social entrepreneurial intention through the mediating roles of social entrepreneurial self-efficacy and social entrepreneurial outcome expectations are scrutinized. Based on a dataset of 503 individuals who have completed social-entrepreneurship orientation courses, the analysis results reveal that the other direct hypotheses are supported except for the insignificant direct effect of social entrepreneurship education on social entrepreneurial outcome expectations. Thus, the applicability of SCCT in the context of social entrepreneurship is confirmed. In addition, the sequential mediating roles of social entrepreneurial self-efficacy and social entrepreneurial outcome expectations are also supported by this study. These two mediators fully and complementarity play a factor in the respective effects of social entrepreneurship education and prior experience on social entrepreneurial intention. Policymakers and educators can rely on the findings of this study to design curricula that aim to enhance the social education and experience of learners to stimulate social entrepreneurial intention.

This study is conducted to provide a systematic review of the existing publications regarding the usage of user-generated video (UGV) for travel planning to present insights, highlight the state-of-art context and suggest potential future research trends in the field. A systematic review process is carried out, including synthesis, classification, and analysis to explore the development, characteristics, theoretical and conceptual models, as well as measurements associated with the use of UGV for travel planning. A total of 52 articles published between 2009 and 2022 are collected and categorised into five categories, including the role of platforms that contain user-generated content (UGC), the characteristic related to UGV/the source characteristic, the characteristic of users (travellers), users (travellers) response, research framework development. Thematic analysis of research categories/themes provides theoretical discourse and insights to address backlog research problems in this field. This study can be viewed as the first systematic review regarding the use of UGV for travel planning. In addition, the methods are used to describe how the research topic is formulated. Furthermore, the usefulness of the qualitative methodology allows the authors to thoroughly analyse the theoretical context of research using UGV for travel planning.