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https://doi.org/10.17234/SocEkol.31.3.4
Verification of the Social-Entrepreneurial Intention Model on a Student Sample at the University of Bihać
Elvira Ćatić-Kajtazović
orcid.org/0000-0002-0883-7484
; Faculty of Economics, University of Bihać, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Suad Kurić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2308-0114
; Faculty of Economics, University of Bihać, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mirela Kljajić-Dervić
; Faculty of Economics, University of Bihać, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This article presents the results of testing the social-entrepreneurial intention model on a student sample at the University of Bihać. The classical model of the Theory of planned behavior was used as a theoretical framework. Regression analysis determined that significant direct predictors of social entrepreneurial intention are personal attitude towards social entrepreneurship (β=0.212; p=0.007) and perceived behavioral control (β=0.644; p=0.000), while subjective norms were not confirmed as a statistically significant direct predictor. The model explains 54.4% of the variance of social entrepreneurial intention. 53.8% of respondents have an entrepreneur in their close family. Students who have an entrepreneur in their immediate family achieve statistically significantly higher values in perceived behavioral control, but also statistically significantly lower values in personal attitude, compared to students who do not have a close person who is an entrepreneur. That is, students who have a person in their close family who is an entrepreneur, compared to students who do not have such a person, may feel more capable of starting a social entrepreneurial venture, but they may also have a lower degree of desirability to become social entrepreneurs. Due to the lack of quantitative studies in the field of social entrepreneurship, which is still in the phase of building theoretical models, we believe that the results of testing the model of social entrepreneurial intention, presented in this article, will contribute to a better understanding of the application of the theory of planned behavior in the field of social entrepreneurship.
Keywords
Theory of planned behavior; social entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurial intention; students
Hrčak ID:
290926
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Publication date:
10.1.2023.
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