Entrepreneurs and Environmental Sustainability in the Digital Era: Regional and Institutional Perspectives

Abstract

Climate change and environmental degradation have negatively affected the sustainable development of mankind. The “green” concept has been gradually accepted by the public, thereby strongly promoting “green” business forms and social innovation. This study adopts related information and technology knowledge and experience and warm glow (altruistic value) for business initiatives as push factors, market opportunity (MO) and personal innovativeness (PI) in technology as pull factors, and institutional theory (regulatory support and normative support) as mooring factors. These factors are employed to analyze the switching intentions of individuals toward green entrepreneurship, which is a new persuasive psychological model based on Push–Pull–Mooring model (PPM). The survey questionnaires are collected from a total of 1562 respondents through WeChat in mainland China. The study findings present all variables that significantly affect individuals’ switching intentions toward green entrepreneurs. PI exhibits the most significant impact on intention of individuals toward green entrepreneurship, while the interaction between the mooring factor and MO on switching intentions to green entrepreneurship is relatively weak. Finally, the study contributes theoretical and practical implications for increasing intentions toward green entrepreneurship.

Exploring Personal and Contextual Variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor through the Rasch Mathematical Model

“…Over the last decade, researchers have made efforts to identify the factors on which entrepreneurship depends in a regional (e.g., local, country) context [11][12][13][14]. It has been shown that entrepreneurship in a specific region is relatively stable due to the temporal stability of certain variables (e.g., culture) [15][16][17].…”

“…By contrast, studies using the Human Capital approach have focused on the attributes of entrepreneurs (e.g., competencies, attitude) [26][27][28]. Both approaches have been used in entrepreneurship studies at the regional level by researchers and institutions [9,12,13]. At the institutional level, the reports on country level entrepreneurship produced by the GEM (www.gemconsortium.org) (accessed on 16 March 2021) stand out [29][30][31].…”

Identification of Key Contributive Compounds in a Herbal Medicine: A Novel Mathematic—Biological Evaluation Approach

“…In contrast with conventional methods, modern technique performs a holistic view without predefined characteristics. The machine learning‐dependent objective evaluation may have a beneficial impact on accurately predicting the core bioactive component [4] . Additionally, HPLC‐based chromatographic fingerprint analysis is prone to select as a sensitive and suitable technique to provide chemical profile [5] .…”

Designing of Service Dominant Logic and Business Model Canvas: Narrative Study of Village Tourism

“…For optimization of service design and business model emphasized the creation of green sustainability (Yang & Yan, 2020;Ye, et al, 2020). SDL axiom emphasizes that all value providers or entrepreneurs and tourism village managers are those who are able to integrate and communicate various values as a service phenomenon (Ng & Vargo, 2018).…”