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Understanding social entrepreneurial intention in higher education: does gender and type of study matter?
Autor(es)
Materia
Social entrepreneurial intention
Previous experience
Empathy
Gender
Higher education
Fecha de publicación
2023
Resumen
Social entrepreneurship is a research topic that has received great
attention from academics especially in recent years. However, the
results in the literature are far from univocal, for example, there is no
clear conceptual delimitation of the term, and it is often analyzed using
the same theoretical models of traditional entrepreneurship. With the
present study, we have attempted to overcome this problem by
analyzing different antecedents, closer to the social and emotional
universe, and detached from a male-centric and traditional vision of
entrepreneurship, with the aim of understanding social entrepreneurial
intentions in higher education. Results obtained from a sample of 962
college students showed that prior experience with social problems
(PESP) and empathy (EMP) have a significant and positive impact on
social entrepreneurial intention (SEI). Furthermore, social self-efficacy
(SES-E), moral obligation (MO), and perceived social support (PSS), in
addition to directly influencing SEI, mediated the relationship between
PESP-SEI, and the relationship between EMP-SEI. More interestingly,
gender (male vs female), but not the different type of study (social
sciences vs economics and business sciences), moderated the
relationship between EMP-SEI to the benefit of women. Given the
importance of social entrepreneurship as an alternative solution to the
current economic crisis, these are important results because, on the one
hand, they make it possible to overcome the male-female gap that
characterizes traditional entrepreneurship, on the other, they underline
the need to introduce different constructs closer to the social and
emotional sphere into entrepreneurship education programs.
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0307-5079
DOI
10.1080/03075079.2023.2250384
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