Abstract
Landless peasants have been a great concern for both the government and academics in China. Entrepreneurship is promoted as one of the most important approaches to achieving civilization and urbanization. However, few studies have systematically examined the influencing factors of landless peasants’ entrepreneurial intention (EI). This research gap presents barriers for making effective policies to promote entrepreneurship among landless peasants. This study aims to examine the critical factors influencing the EI of landless peasants and their interrelationships. The critical factors of landless peasants’ EI are identified using logistic regression analysis. The logical and structural relationships among critical factors are mined by interpretative structural modeling. A chain of factors with an interrelated and clear hierarchy is built to clarify the explanatory structure of landless peasants’ EI. The results show that the EI of landless peasants is significantly influenced by five factors: gender, achievement motivation, innovation orientation, land expropriation scenario, and entrepreneurial experience. Entrepreneurial experience is a direct surface factor; innovation orientation is an indirect intermediate layer factor; and gender, achievement motivation, and land expropriation scenario are deeply rooted factors. The results provide a good reference for formulating effective entrepreneurship policies to address landless peasants’ employment and sustainable livelihoods.
Highlights
China’s government has expropriated a large amount of agricultural land to meet the demands of infrastructure and property development in the urbanization of China [1,2,3,4,5]
The aim of using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) in this study is to find the essential relationship among primary factors identified through Logistics regression, reveal the inherent law of a system structure and extract useful information
The estimation is conducted according to Equation (1), and the preliminary model estimation results are obtained
Summary
China’s government has expropriated a large amount of agricultural land to meet the demands of infrastructure and property development in the urbanization of China [1,2,3,4,5]. Based on the amount of expropriated land and changes in the per capita land area, the number of Chinese landless peasants is estimated to reach more than 50 million in 2008. 100 million Chinese landless peasants are expected in the decade according to China’s current urbanization level and economic growth rate. A large number of rural laborers have migrated to cities for non-agricultural employment. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the new working-age population in cities reached 13.12 million in 2015, and the unemployment rate was 4.05%. The skyrocketing urbanization of China under external forces, the regional industrial structure, and economic development strategies have failed to achieve synergized development with sustainable livelihood security for landless peasants [9]. As former President Hu Jintao said in the “the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China” in 2012, “guiding employment is necessary to change the employment ideas, encourage multi-channel and multi-form employment, and promote entrepreneurship to create jobs.”
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