Factors influencing undergraduate students’ green entrepreneurial intentions: evidence from an emerging economy

Intentions to Create Green Start-Ups for Collection of Unwanted Drugs: An Empirical Study

“…Furthermore, Michael et al [4] recommended the need to integrate "pharmaceutical waste management lectures" into university education curricula. The results of Noor et al [62], Roy [24], and Tee et al [20] are in line with the significant influence of entrepreneurial knowledge on green entrepreneurial intention. In fact, pharmacy and medical students may have better knowledge regarding the types, classification, ingredients, toxicity, and risks of drugs compared to students of other specializations.…”

“…Therefore, students who have positive attitudes toward green start-ups may be more willing to engage in the experience of creating a green start-up project, and they are also more eager to research and learn about how to create a start-up company. Previous evidence has also demonstrated that attitudes can be a contributing factor to engaging in green and sustainable entrepreneurship [19,21,24,45,67,[73][74][75]. The result of Sher et al [56] is consistent with the significant influence of attitudes on launching a sustainable start-up.…”

“…For this reason and in light of previous investigations (such as refs. [19][20][21]23,24,31,34,35]), we chose the questionnaire survey method as a quantitative approach to collect primary data from students. Moreover, in order to determine the percentage of improvement in the predictive ability of the expanded model, we applied hierarchical multiple regression analysis as a commonly used statistical method in this field (e.g., refs.…”

“…Prabowo et al [46] revealed that cognition knowledge positively affects green entrepreneurship intention. Similarly, some studies have reported that entrepreneurial knowledge has a positive effect on conventional entrepreneurship intention [50,53] and green entrepreneurship intention [20,24,62]. Furthermore, a study by Cui et al [42] found that "lack of green technical knowledge" is one of the factors leading to green business failure.…”

“…Zhang et al [47] found that attitude is the strongest determinant of waste classification intention. Empirical evidence supports that positive attitudes can exert a positive effect on individuals' intention to create green start-ups [35], sustainable start-ups [56], green entrepreneurship [1,24,67,74], sustainable entrepreneurship [18,45,[57][58][59]73,75], and the intention to engage in conventional entrepreneurship [51,52,66]. Furthermore, Aliedan et al [50] point out that attitudes influence the intention of students to be entrepreneurs.…”