Research On The Influencing Factors Of College Students' Social Entrepreneurial Intentions Based On FsQCA

Social entrepreneurship is also called "Nonprofit entrepreneurship".Compared with traditional business entrepreneurship,it has the dual mission of realizing social and commercial value.Since its emergence in the 1990 s,social entrepreneurship has been considered as a new way to solve social problems,and has gradually become an important force in the social public services,job creation and social fairness and justice.Therefore,it has received widespread attention at home and abroad.In the past 30 years of development,the research achievements in this field have been increasing,mainly from the three levels of individual,organization and system.At the individual level,scholars focus on what factors influence social entrepreneurs to choose this entrepreneurial activity.Such as using pro-social personality as an indispensable factor for social entrepreneurship intentions,and also consider self-efficacy,perceived support,and previous experience to be important factors.At the organizational level,some scholars focus on the financing of social entrepreneurship,some focus on the performance of social enterprises,and others focus on contradictions within social enterprises.At the institutional level,most studies have examined the influence of institutional background on the social entrepreneurship activity of a country or region.In contrast,the research on social entrepreneurship in China has lagged slightly.The earliest research results appeared in 2007,and It is still developing slowly.Among the achievements of Chinese social entrepreneurship researchers,although most of them still revolve around the introduction of theory and the operating process of social enterprises,some scholars have also focused on the issue of social entrepreneurship education.To be sure,as a "new force" in the field of entrepreneurship,college students have always been concerned about the influential factors of their entrepreneurship intentions.In the context of social issues such as the environment,resources,and people's livelihood in our country becoming increasingly prominent,enterprises' product quality and safety and environmental pollution incidents have repeatedly occurred,and social responsibility awareness is obviously insufficient,it is even more necessary to encourage Chinese college students to create social values and start innovation and entrepreneurship activity.The government,organizations and universities,as the main body of the cultivation of college students' social entrepreneurship intention,should form a linkage mechanism,actively guide college students to choose social entrepreneurship,and increase the cultivation of potential social entrepreneurs.Bysorting out previous studies of social entrepreneurship intentions,this paper finds that the research ideas of scholars are basically to verify the net effect between influencing factors and results.However,the generation of intentions is the result of the interdependence and combination of factors,which requires in-depth research the influence of various factors on college students' social entrepreneurship intentions.In this context,this article takes the social entrepreneurship intentions of college students as the research theme,and attempts to explore the factors that affect the social entrepreneurship intentions of college students from a configuration perspective.This paper uses the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)to try to explain the following questions:(1)What factors may affect college students' social entrepreneurshipl intentions?(2)How do the four factors of prosocial behavior tendency(PBT),entrepreneurial self-efficacy(ESE),social capital(SC),and previous experience(Pre-experience)interact with each other and affect college students' social entrepreneurship intentions?(3)What are the sufficient and necessary conditions that cause college students' social entrepreneurship intentions?(4)How does a single factor work in a configuration?This research mainly uses literature research,questionnaire survey and fsQCA.First,review the relevant Chinese and English literature in the field of social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions,and use visualization software to perform statistical analysis on the retrieved literature.Then extract the antecedent conditions.Secondly,design questionnaires and collect data.This article selects college students as the research object and measures their social entrepreneurship intentions in the form of an online questionnaire.A total of 165 valid questionnaires were obtained in this paper,with an effective rate of 76.74%.Third,use the fsQCA method to calibrate the data and explore the influence of the interdependence of individual factors such as prosocial behavior tendency(PBT),entrepreneurial self-efficacy(ESE),social capital(SC),and previous experience(PreExperience)on college students' social entrepreneurial intentions.Finally,the sufficient and necessary conditions are analyzed to draw the conclusions of this study based on the empirical results.And the theoretical and practical significance of this article is proposed.The following conclusions are obtained through empirical analysis:(1)PBT and ESE are important and necessary conditions for college students to develop socialentrepreneurship intentions;(2)College students' PreVOLex and PreENex are generally lacking,and play a small role in various configurations leading to college students' social entrepreneurship intentions,which are marginal conditions;(3)There are four paths for college students' social entrepreneurship intentions: ~PreVOLex * ~ PreENex * PBT,~ PreVOLex * PBT * ESE,PBT * ESE * SC,~PreVOLex * ~ PreENex * ESE * ~ SC.Based on the above research conclusions,this article puts forward the following suggestions:(1)The causal relationship between college students' social entrepreneurship intentions is complex and requires comprehensive attention;(2)Prosocial behavior tendency and entrepreneurial self-efficacy have a clear core role and should be focused on;(3)The previous experience of entrepreneurship is obviously inadequate,and it is necessary to change the thinking and improve it;(4)Universities,enterprises and government departments should work together to build a social entrepreneur training platform.The innovations of this article include:(1)Sorting out the influencing factors of college students' social entrepreneurship intentions based on Theory of Planned Behavioral;(2)Using the fsQCA to study the complexity of influencing factors of social entrepreneurship intention Configuration effect.