Social entrepreneurial intentions and its influential factors: A comparison of students in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Abstract

This empirical study adds to the literature by investigating the influences of the personality traits, creativity, and social capital of Taiwan and Hong Kong university students on social entrepreneurial intentions. A total of 301 valid survey responses from Taiwan and 147 from Hong Kong were collected. The results indicated that original creativity and bonding social capital positively affected social entrepreneurial conviction in both groups of students. Conscientiousness negatively affected and original creativity positively affected social entrepreneurial preparation in Taiwanese students, whereas openness negatively affected and original creativity positively affected social entrepreneurial preparation in students from Hong Kong.

Keywords:

• Creativity
• entrepreneurial intention
• Hong Kong
• personality
• social capital
• social entrepreneurship
• Taiwan