Factors Associated with Propensity for Sustainable Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship has both positive and negative contributions to our society. On the negative side, the degradation of environmental quality caused by entrepreneurial activities requires serious attention. As such, sustainable entrepreneurship has been suggested as an attempt to alleviate environmental problems. However, embarkation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on environmental management is still not promising. Furthermore, there are scant studies in regard to motivation and propensity in the development of sustainable entrepreneurs among SMEs practitioners. Thus, this study was conducted to address the factors associated with propensity for sustainable entrepreneurship among owners-managers of SMEs. A total of 249 SMEs were randomly selected as the sample of this study and surveyed through self-administered questionnaires. Based on the descriptive analyses, this paper found that owners-managers of SMEs generally possessed positive or favorable attitude towards sustainability, concerned about social pressures on sustainability, perceived that sustainable entrepreneurship was attractive and perceived themselves as having sufficient ability for sustainable entrepreneurship. Furthermore, they also exhibited high level of propensity for becoming sustainable entrepreneurs. The correlation analysis revealed that all the hypotheses were supported. Specifically, sustainability attitude, social norm, perceived desirability and perceived feasibility recorded positive associa…
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Sustainability policy and responsible behavior of entrepreneurial ecosystem actors and communities facilitate business growth and entrepreneurship and make it possible for entrepreneurial activity to benefit society as a whole.
“Sustainability policy and responsible behavior of EE actors and communities thus facilitate business growth and entrepreneurship (Meek et al., 2010) and also make it possible for entrepreneurial activity to benefit society as a whole (Koe et al., 2014;Szerb et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Koe, W.-L., Omar, R., & Majid, I. A.
- Affiliations
- Universiti Teknologi MARA (MY)
- Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Koe, Wei-Loon
- ORCID
- Koe, Wei-Loon
- Venue
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-05
- Volume
- 130
- Pages
- 65-74
- ISSN
- 1877-0428 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968404270
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 20.63
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Sustainability and Innovation in Business
- Keywords
- sustainable entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurial intention, sustainability attitudes, social norms, perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, owner-managers, environmental management, entrepreneurial motivation
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