Abstract
This research assesses the influence of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support through entrepreneurial self-efficacy over green entrepreneurial intentions. A total of 532 business students in Ecuador participated in an online survey. Eight questions were focused on demographic information, and twenty-seven questions evaluated the green entrepreneurship intentions of students. An SEM-PLS technical analysis was used. The results showed that educational support for developing entrepreneurship (0.296), conceptual support for developing entrepreneurship (0.123), and country support for entrepreneurship (0.188) had a positive influence on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and that entrepreneurial self-efficacy had a positive influence (0.855) on gren entrepreneurial intentions. The model explained 73.1% of the green entrepreneurial intentions. Outcomes of the bootstrapping test were used to evaluate if the path coefficients are significant. This study showed the impacts of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support on the entrepreneur’s ability to carry out green entrepreneurship were positive. This information can help universities develop strategic plans to achieve ecological ventures and ensure students have the necessary skills to do so on campus. The research findings also may be helpful for the governments in establishing new norms to promote entrepreneurship. The novelty is based on using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique.
Highlights
The current study considers the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a theoretical foundation to calculate the effect of contextual elements and self-efficacy on carrying out green entrepreneurship
The outcomes obtained showed that the instrument was valid, reliable, and statistically relevant in applying the sample and can show if the model explains the factors that describe green entrepreneurship intention
Little research has been carried out on ecological entrepreneurship intention, so this study provides a reference for Latin America
Summary
The pandemic has generated adverse effects both at the individual and the collective level. The health system offers various services [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11], but the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted health professionals [12,13,14,15,16] and individuals [17,18,19,20], both in their expectations [21] and in their usual activities such as education [22]. A similar impact has happened in previous epidemics [23]. 4.0/).
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