Entrepreneurial intention for social cause: role of moral obligation, contextual support and barriers

This research investigates the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese employees, a crucial segment of potential entrepreneurs yet mostly neglected in previous studies. Given the focus on intention to create an international business venture and the working segment, we expand the entrepreneurial event theory by supplementing perceived competence and job satisfaction as determinants of entrepreneurial intention while testing the mediation of perceived feasibility and perceived desirability in such relationships correspondingly. Three focus groups on 27 Vietnamese employees were conducted to explore the specific relevant competences and develop the conceptual model. Afterwards, data from an empirical survey on 567 Vietnamese employees was analysed using a partial least squares structural equation model to test the hypothesised relationships. The empirical results indicate that perceived competences, viz. administrative competence, communication skills, network building competence, and international business expertise have a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention. The relationships between either administrative competence, network building capacity or international business expertise, and entrepreneurial intention are totally mediated by perceived feasibility. The study also reveals a noteworthy finding about the negative direct effect of overall job satisfaction on entrepreneurial intention and the partial mediating role of perceived desirability in this relationship.

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Military Alliances and Public Support for War

International Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1093/isq/sqab015 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Tomz ◽

Jessica L P Weeks

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Moral Obligation ◽

Public Support ◽

Fundamental Question ◽

Military Alliances ◽

Audience Costs ◽

Wide Range ◽

Willingness To Intervene ◽

Reputational Costs

Abstract How do military alliances affect public support for war to defend victims of aggression? We offer the first experimental evidence on this fundamental question. Our experiments revealed that alliance commitments greatly increased the American public's willingness to intervene abroad. Alliances shaped public opinion by increasing public fears about the reputational costs of nonintervention and by heightening the perceived moral obligation to intervene out of concerns for fairness and loyalty. Finally, although alliances swayed public opinion across a wide range of circumstances, they made the biggest difference when the costs of intervention were high, the stakes of intervention were low, and the country needing aid was not a democracy. Thus, alliances can create pressure for war even when honoring the commitment would be extremely inconvenient, which could help explain why democratic allies tend to be so reliable. These findings shed new light on the consequences of alliances and other international legal commitments, the role of morality in foreign policy, and ongoing debates about domestic audience costs.

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Perceptions of water as commodity or uniqueness? The role of water value, scarcity concern and moral obligation on conservation behavior

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112677 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 292 ◽

pp. 112677

Author(s):

Verolien Cauberghe ◽

Estefanya Vazquez-Casaubon ◽

Dieneke Van de Sompel

Keyword(s):

Moral Obligation ◽

Conservation Behavior ◽

Water Value

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Do entrepreneurship education and environment promote students’ entrepreneurial intention? the role of entrepreneurial attitude

Cogent Education ◽

10.1080/2331186x.2021.1948660 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1948660

Author(s):

Djoko Dwi Kusumojanto ◽

Agus Wibowo ◽

Januar Kustiandi ◽

Bagus Shandy Narmaditya

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurship Education ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitude

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Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

Journal of International Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1007/s10843-021-00288-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Giuliano Sansone ◽

Elisa Ughetto ◽

Paolo Landoni

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Student Entrepreneurship ◽

Entrepreneurial Organizations ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

The Empirical Analysis

AbstractAlthough a great deal of attention has been paid to entrepreneurship education, only a few studies have analysed the impact of extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by exploring the role played by Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations (SLEOs) in shaping the entrepreneurial intention of their members. The analysis is based on a survey that was conducted in 2016 by one of the largest SLEOs in the world: the Junior Enterprises Europe (JEE). The main result of the empirical analysis is that the more time students spent on JEE and the higher the number of events students attended, the greater their entrepreneurial intention was. It has been found that other important drivers also increase students’ entrepreneurial intention, that is, the Science and Technology field of study and the knowledge of more than two foreign languages. These results confirm that SLEOs are able to foster students’ entrepreneurial intention. The findings provide several theoretical, practical and public policy implications. SLEOs are encouraged to enhance their visibility and lobbying potential in order to be recognized more as drivers of student entrepreneurship. In addition, it is advisable for universities and policy makers to support SLEOs by fostering their interactions with other actors operating in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, who promote entrepreneurship and technology transfer activities. Lastly, this paper advises policy makers to assist SLEOs’ activities inside and outside the university context.

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Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791839603000114 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 171-197 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Myron Weiner

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Moral Obligation ◽

Human Right ◽

National Sovereignty ◽

Migration Policies ◽

Open Borders ◽

The Relationship

This paper examines the debate as to whether migration is a basic human right or if the claims of outsiders are superseded by the principle of national sovereignty – the moral obligation of states to do the best for their own citizens. In evaluating migration and refugees it focuses on issues of open borders, migration selectivity, the capacity of sovereign states to control entry, the claims of refugees, the relationship between sovereignty and justifiable intervention, and the role of public opinion and morals throughout migration policies.

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Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Job satisfaction as a moderating factor between outcome expectations and entrepreneurial intention among academics

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal ◽

10.1007/s11365-021-00744-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Blaese ◽

Schneider Noemi ◽

Liebig Brigitte

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Cognitive Career Theory ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Career Decisions ◽

Outcome Expectations ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Career Theory ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

Social Cognitive Career

AbstractBoth psychological and entrepreneurship research have highlighted the pivotal role of job satisfaction in the process of entrepreneurial career decisions. In support of this, mounting evidence point to inter-relationships between entrepreneurial intention, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Prior research operationalized entrepreneurial careers as an escape from poor work environments; thus, there is a lack of understanding regarding how job-satisfaction can trigger entrepreneurship within and related to the environment of universities. This study, draws on Social Cognitive Career Theory and the concept of entrepreneurial intention, to address whether the role of job satisfaction is a moderating factor between outcome expectations and entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we examine to what extent (I) entrepreneurial intention and (II) spin-off intention are determined by certain outcome expectations and perceived behavioral control. To address these questions this study examined academic researchers in specialized and non-technical fields and builds on a survey of 593 academic researchers at Swiss Universities of Applied Science. The results showed that outcome expectations are a significant predictor for entrepreneurial intentions, in general, and spin-off intentions, in particular. A multi-group analysis corroborated that job satisfaction operates as a motivational factor in entrepreneurial transition and interactions with entrepreneurial outcome expectations. In conclusion, the concept of job satisfaction and Social Cognitive Career Theory were powerful constructs to better the understand the process of entrepreneurial career decisions by academic researchers.

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