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An Integrative Approach to Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Impacts of Environmental and Personal Factors Social entrepreneurship is a process of creating socially desirable value by combining resources in new ways to explore and exploit opportunities through offering of services and product or creating new organizations (Mair & Marti, 2006). Social entrepreneurship has a long heritage and a global presence as a practice that combines social mission with market approaches to resolve social problems and to create social values (Mair & Marti, 2006; Rawhouser, Cummings, & Newbert, 2019) Despite of recent attempts to identify antecedents of social entrepreneurial intentions that inspire an individual taking social entrepreneurial actions, those proposed antecedents were not clearly conceptualized and empirically examined (Hockerts, 2017; Mair & Noboa, 2006). Generally, the most influential individual-based factors as antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions are personal factors such as personality, psychological dispositions, background, or perceptions (Ayob, Yap, Sapuan, & Rashidd, 2013; Hockerts, 2017; Mair & Noboa, 2006). However, the contextual factors that are dynamically interacting with personal factors are thought to be inevitable ones in creating social entrepreneurial intention. An integrative antecedent model of social entrepreneurial intention is necessary to create a new knowledge of dynamics of environmental and personal factors. The Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships of environmental factors and personal factors with social entrepreneurial intention. Specifically, this study addresses four research questions. • First, do environmental factors (e.g. social support; social norm; psychological safety; funding support; education support) have any direct impact on social entrepreneurial intention? • Second, do personal factors (e.g. personal attitude; positive psychological capital; morality) have any direct impact on social entrepreneurial intention? (Curry, Jones Chesters, & Van Lissa, 2019) • Third, is there any correlation between environmental factors and personal factors? • Fourth, what is the direct and indirect effects of environmental and personal factors on social entrepreneurial intention?
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