Influence of Attitude, Risk Taking Propensity and Proactive Personality on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions

A systematic literature review of the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of social entrepreneurial intention of students

“…Their results revealed that the level of the SEI of students and alumni was moderate and very similar to each other, and that public university students have a higher potential to become social entrepreneurs as compared to those from private universities. Chipeta and Surujlal (2017) investigated the influence of attitude, risk taking propensity and proactive personality on SEI of students in South Africa. Their results showed that only risk-taking propensity and attitude towards entrepreneurship were significant, with risk taking propensity being the most significant.…”

Development of a comprehensive model of social entrepreneurial intention formation using a quality tool

“…As regards social entrepreneurship, intentions can be defined as aspiration of an individual to set up social enterprise (Tran & Von Korflesch, 2016). In simple words, SEI can be understood as an individual's objective to start an organization to create a social change in the society (Bosch, 2013;Chipeta & Surujlal, 2017;Prieto, 2010;Prieto et al, 2012).…”

“…A model on social entrepreneurial intention formation developed by Mair and Noboa (2006) includes perceived feasibility as a core construct responsible for the formation of intentions directly and as a mediator between self-efficacy and social support and behavioral intentions. Almost all the intention studies till date in the field of social entrepreneurship that mention PBC assume that it has a positive impact on social entrepreneurial intentions (Bosch, 2013;Chipeta, 2015;Chipeta et al, 2016;Chipeta & Surujlal, 2017;Ernst, 2011;Hayek et al, 2013;Rapando 2016;Politis et al, 2016;Prieto et al, 2012;Tiwari et al, 2017;Yang et al, 2015). While considering PBC as one of the strongest predictors of intention, Tiwari et al (2017) mention of PBC as a belief for carrying out a certain task and includes various activities required to perform the task.…”

The development of Saudi Arabian Entrepreneurship and Knowledge society

“…Entrepreneurship continued to gain popularity until the 20th century when the classical economist Joseph Schumpeter introduced the concept of innovation as an innovative person. Schumpeter described the entrepreneur as the person who gets profit through the successful innovation of the production and distribution process (Chipeta et al, 2016) [24]. Moreover, it is defined as an emerging behavioral intention in which the organizational behaviors that lead to the deviation from traditional forms of doing business (Karacaoglu et al, 2013) [32].…”