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Social entrepreneurship has recently become a much-desired area of research for academia, practices, and policymaking. Natural or cognitive personal thoughtfulness like loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion trigger individual intentions towards the social entrepreneurial venture. In this process of individual social entrepreneurial intention personality trait plays a very vital role, such as entrepreneurship resilience. For this study, a purposive sampling technique was incorporated and data was collected from 631 business and management sciences students. Data is analyzed by SPSS 23 and for the hypothesis testing, we used the bootstrap analysis of Hayes PROCESS v3.5. This study depicts that LKM has a positive significant impact on compassion and no significant impact on social entrepreneurship intentions while resilience strengthens the direct relationship of compassion with social entrepreneurship and the indirect relationship of LKM with social entrepreneurship via compassion. This study contributes to solving the economic and social problems over the globe especially by boosting the LKM and resilience traits so that the young graduate commence social entrepreneurship. This study helps the academician and policymakers to adopt strategies through which they can encourage youth to indulge in social entrepreneurial ventures solve the social problem and decrease unemployment.
Hameed Sana; Salem Alkhalaf; Salman Zulfiqar; Waleed Al-Rahmi; Ahmad Al-Adwan; Anas AlSoud. Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5192 .
AMA StyleHameed Sana, Salem Alkhalaf, Salman Zulfiqar, Waleed Al-Rahmi, Ahmad Al-Adwan, Anas AlSoud. Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5192.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHameed Sana; Salem Alkhalaf; Salman Zulfiqar; Waleed Al-Rahmi; Ahmad Al-Adwan; Anas AlSoud. 2021. "Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business Graduates: An Investigation through Moderated-Mediation Model." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5192.
COVID-19 has disrupted educational institutes across the world. Teachers and students are now forced to teach and study online for an unidentified period, which severely hampers the learning capacity as well the student’s intention toward entrepreneurship. This study compared the impact of traditional teaching and teaching through online management simulation games on student learning performance and further leads to entrepreneurial intention. To further understand the desirability of business simulation games, we used the technology acceptance model (TAM) and extended it by employing knowledge sharing, knowledge application, learnability, perceived pleasure, and self-efficacy as exogenous variables. For this purpose, time-lagged data were collected from 277 students enrolled in entrepreneurship courses in public sector universities. To deal with homogeneity and generalizability issues, students from different collaborative universities were asked to participate in the study. Structural equation modeling was employed for analysis, where the results depict that the students learning performance was enhanced after using simulation games compared to regular theoretical online lectures, which further encouraged them to be entrepreneurs. We also concluded that simulation games are novel and effective online teaching methodology for students during a time of crisis. The study concludes with its theoretical, practical implications, and directions for future researchers.
Salman Zulfiqar; Hamad Al-Reshidi; Moteeb Al Moteri; Hafiz Feroz; Noraffandy Yahya; Waleed Al-Rahmi. Understanding and Predicting Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention through Business Simulation Games: A Perspective of COVID-19. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1838 .
AMA StyleSalman Zulfiqar, Hamad Al-Reshidi, Moteeb Al Moteri, Hafiz Feroz, Noraffandy Yahya, Waleed Al-Rahmi. Understanding and Predicting Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention through Business Simulation Games: A Perspective of COVID-19. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1838.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSalman Zulfiqar; Hamad Al-Reshidi; Moteeb Al Moteri; Hafiz Feroz; Noraffandy Yahya; Waleed Al-Rahmi. 2021. "Understanding and Predicting Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention through Business Simulation Games: A Perspective of COVID-19." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1838.
Innovation as an essential index of economic development facilitates economies to enhance their productivity levels and domestic outputs over the long run. The innovation level of a country depends heavily on its strong institutional settings, quality of education, and peaceful environment. Contrastingly, weak institutional capacity, corruption, inadequacy in education and terrorism can affect the pace of innovation. Applying the ARDL approach to cointegration, this study aims to investigate the short- and long-run impacts of corruption, human capital, and terrorism upon innovation in Pakistan. The findings revealed that corruption, inadequecy in education, and terrorism all have adverse effects on innovation. The adverse effect of corruption was found to be worse than those of inadequecy in education and terrorism. Several econometric approaches provide further support to the main results. Our findings recommends significant policies reforms in Pakistan. Detailed policy implications are also discussed.
Muhammad Athar Nadeem; Zhiying Liu; Salman Zulfiqar; Amna Younis; Yi Xu. Does corruption impede innovation in developing economies? Insights from Pakistan: a call for policies reforms. Crime, Law and Social Change 2021, 75, 93 -117.
AMA StyleMuhammad Athar Nadeem, Zhiying Liu, Salman Zulfiqar, Amna Younis, Yi Xu. Does corruption impede innovation in developing economies? Insights from Pakistan: a call for policies reforms. Crime, Law and Social Change. 2021; 75 (2):93-117.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuhammad Athar Nadeem; Zhiying Liu; Salman Zulfiqar; Amna Younis; Yi Xu. 2021. "Does corruption impede innovation in developing economies? Insights from Pakistan: a call for policies reforms." Crime, Law and Social Change 75, no. 2: 93-117.
Social entrepreneurship is a business approach in which entrepreneurs focus on social problems. Social entrepreneurs generate new initiatives, provide social plans and marshal resources with regard to social problems. This study examines the opportunity recognition behavior and readiness of youth for social entrepreneurship as a career choice. The topic is not arranged systematically; hence, this research aims to organize the topic by combining opportunity recognition behavior and willingness of youth toward social entrepreneurship through comprehensive theoretical modeling and empirical testing. The study hypothesized that social capital, social empathy, normative institutional environment, formal education, and training may enhance opportunity recognition behavior, whereas the regulative institutional environment may harm youth opportunity recognition behavior. This study also hypothesized that opportunity recognition behavior can lead to the readiness of youth for social entrepreneurship. Non-probability purposive sampling technique has been used due to selective participation. The data for this research have been collected from Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese youth. A total of 750 questionnaires were distributed among respondents, and 555 were returned for further analysis. The findings conclude that Social Empathy and Education and Training within formal and informal environments hold strong influence while defining individuals’ Social Entrepreneurial Intentions.
Salman Zulfiqar; Muhammad Athar Nadeem; Muhammad Kaleem Khan; Muhammad Azfar Anwar; Muhammad Badar Iqbal; Fahad Asmi. Opportunity Recognition Behavior and Readiness of Youth for Social Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Research Journal 2019, 11, 1 .
AMA StyleSalman Zulfiqar, Muhammad Athar Nadeem, Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Muhammad Azfar Anwar, Muhammad Badar Iqbal, Fahad Asmi. Opportunity Recognition Behavior and Readiness of Youth for Social Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Research Journal. 2019; 11 (4):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSalman Zulfiqar; Muhammad Athar Nadeem; Muhammad Kaleem Khan; Muhammad Azfar Anwar; Muhammad Badar Iqbal; Fahad Asmi. 2019. "Opportunity Recognition Behavior and Readiness of Youth for Social Entrepreneurship." Entrepreneurship Research Journal 11, no. 4: 1.
This aim of the study is to recognize the social entrepreneurial intention among youth who are the business undergraduate, graduate and professional students in Pakistan and China using the theory of planned behavior. 355 respondents from business Pakistani and Chinses universities using 54 item questionnaire. Systematized random sampling was employed to collect data. 72% (N = 256) of the respondents were male, and 28% (N = 98) were female, and most of the respondent's age range between 20 to 35 of age. To measure the intention and attitude of youth towards social entrepreneurship using emotional intelligence and moral obligation with Theory of planned behavior. The result demonstrates that the hypothesized research model of study describes 46% of the variance, which explains social entrepreneurship intention. Results indicate that emotional Intelligence a significant relationship with self-efficacy and attitude where it has a positive relationship with social norms but is not significant. Conversely, the moral obligation has a significant positive relationship with attitude, self-efficacy and social norms which leads towards social entrepreneurship. Research study focuses and contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature using new antecedents using emotional intelligence and moral obligation to measure the development of social entrepreneurial intention.
Syed Mazahir Kazmi; Ali Hammad; Arslan Ahmed; Salman Zulfiqar. Impact of Internal Cognitive Factors on Social Entrepreneurial Intention. Business and Economic Research 2018, 9, 106 -122.
AMA StyleSyed Mazahir Kazmi, Ali Hammad, Arslan Ahmed, Salman Zulfiqar. Impact of Internal Cognitive Factors on Social Entrepreneurial Intention. Business and Economic Research. 2018; 9 (1):106-122.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSyed Mazahir Kazmi; Ali Hammad; Arslan Ahmed; Salman Zulfiqar. 2018. "Impact of Internal Cognitive Factors on Social Entrepreneurial Intention." Business and Economic Research 9, no. 1: 106-122.
Although research on entrepreneurial attitude and intention has received so much attention from scholars, only few studies have investigated the effect of value, usefulness, and pleasure associated with business simulation games, and how these values affect students’ attitude and intention toward entrepreneurial activities. In this study, Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planned Behavior have been used in combination to explore how these technological teaching methods influence the attitude and intentions of the students toward entrepreneurial activities. The results show that all hypotheses have been proven by stating significant and positive students’ attitude and intention toward entrepreneurial activities using business simulation games. But subjective norms did not contribute toward student intentions in this regard. It is concluded that people with high uncertainty avoidance are reluctant to take the risk; therefore, there is a need to change their attitude by implementing entrepreneurial ecosystem in society.
Salman Zulfiqar; Binesh Sarwar; Saira Aziz; Khurram Ejaz Chandia; Muhammad Kaleem Khan. An Analysis of Influence of Business Simulation Games on Business School Students’ Attitude and Intention Toward Entrepreneurial Activities. Journal of Educational Computing Research 2018, 57, 106 -130.
AMA StyleSalman Zulfiqar, Binesh Sarwar, Saira Aziz, Khurram Ejaz Chandia, Muhammad Kaleem Khan. An Analysis of Influence of Business Simulation Games on Business School Students’ Attitude and Intention Toward Entrepreneurial Activities. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 2018; 57 (1):106-130.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSalman Zulfiqar; Binesh Sarwar; Saira Aziz; Khurram Ejaz Chandia; Muhammad Kaleem Khan. 2018. "An Analysis of Influence of Business Simulation Games on Business School Students’ Attitude and Intention Toward Entrepreneurial Activities." Journal of Educational Computing Research 57, no. 1: 106-130.