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Antecedents to Social Entrepreneurship Engagement

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Social entrepreneurship strives to solve societal problems through value creation which makes it different from commercial entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship helps bridge the gap between the academic world and the community. It is vital to identify the engagement antecedents empirically as there were limited studies in this area. Besides, it is critical to explore the rank of importance of the antecedents in determining the engagement intention among higher institution students. There were 364 questionnaires completed by students from higher learning institution. As the result, factor analysis identified awareness, government push, desire, and basic needs as the antecedents of social entrepreneurship engagement. Pearson correlation had showed the correlation between all the antecedents and engagement intention. However, the multiple regression analysis (MRA) verified only awareness and government push antecedents have significant relationship with engagement intention among other variables investigated. The analysis also showed the hierarchical order of the antecedents which ranked awareness as foremost important followed by government push, desire, and basic needs. Implications, limitation, and areas for future research were also discussed.

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Acknowledgment

We herewith acknowledge the contributions from Ministry of Education Malaysia, Entrepreneur Development Unit, Chief Minister Department of Sarawak, Ministry of Industrial Development Sarawak, individuals, and community of Sebuyau in making the project Entrepreneurship Tourism Product (eTourP) into reality.

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  1. Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

    Abang Zainoren Abang Abdurahman & Jati Kasuma Ali

  2. Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

    Lenny Yusrina Bujang Khedif & Zubaidah Bohari

  3. Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

    Johanna Adlin Ahmad & Silverina Anabelle Kibat

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Abdurahman, A.Z.A., Ali, J.K., Khedif, L.Y.B., Bohari, Z., Ahmad, J.A., Kibat, S.A. (2016). Antecedents to Social Entrepreneurship Engagement. In: Mohd Sidek, N., Ali, S., Ismail, M. (eds) Proceedings of the ASEAN Entrepreneurship Conference 2014. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0036-2_26

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