Abstract
Green entrepreneurship has a huge role in solving environmental degradation and social problems. As today’s youth are tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, enhancing their green entrepreneurial intention will contribute to the sustainable development of economy in the future. The existing literature has examined the green entrepreneurial intention of college students based on self-efficacy, entrepreneurial creativity, entrepreneurship education, financial support, sustainable development values, and other influencing factors. However, these studies focus on net effect of factors on the results of college students’ green entrepreneurial intention, ignoring the combination of multiple factors, and the relationship between different configurations of factors and the results of college students’ green entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, this study aimed to understand and analyze the influence of the complex relationship between multiple antecedents (entrepreneurial creativity, future self-continuity, green cognition, entrepreneurship culture, entrepreneurship education, and financial support) on college students’ green entrepreneurial intention from a comprehensive perspective. Based on 207 questionnaires collected from colleges in the coastal cities of China, this study used the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method for data analysis. The results showed three dominant paths of great significance to college students’ high green entrepreneurial intention: entrepreneurial creativity—green cognition—dominant path; entrepreneurial creativity—financial support—dominant path; and the future self-continuity—entrepreneurship culture—entrepreneurship education—dominant path. The results of this study can help college educators to plan courses on innovative thinking and green entrepreneurship to improve college students’ entrepreneurial creativity and green cognitive ability.
Highlights
Studies on green economy have revealed that it can effectively solve environmental deterioration and that green entrepreneurship is an important part of this concept (Soomro et al, 2020)
GEI1a, GEI1b, and GEI1c are all related to high green entrepreneurial intention, and the three configurations show that entrepreneurial creativity and green cognition are the core conditions of the three configurations
Previous studies mainly focused on the impact of net effect of factors on green entrepreneurial intention among college students (Jiang et al, 2020; Soomro et al, 2020; Yi, 2020), and ignored the complex impact of multiple factors on the results
Summary
Studies on green economy have revealed that it can effectively solve environmental deterioration and that green entrepreneurship is an important part of this concept (Soomro et al, 2020). The individual sustainable development values (Kuckertz and Wagner, 2010; Ploum et al, 2018; Vuorio et al, 2018; Sher et al, 2020; Thelken and de Jong, 2020; Agu et al, 2021; Yasir et al, 2021) and entrepreneurship education for sustainable development (Lans et al, 2014; Wijnker et al, 2015; Soomro et al, 2020; Agu et al, 2021) are the most important factors that influence the green entrepreneurial intention of college students. From the perspective of research methods, these studies mainly use structural equation models (Soomro et al, 2020; Thelken and de Jong, 2020; Alvarez-Risco et al, 2021; Yasir et al, 2021) and regression analysis (Vuorio et al, 2018; Butkouskaya et al, 2020), and focus more on the marginal “net effect” of independent variables on dependent variables They cannot explain the complex causal relationships between multiple factors
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