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Factors Affecting Individual’s Intention to Become a Social Entrepreneur

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There are good numbers of success stories of social enterprises in India such as Arvind Eye Centre, Barefoot, Farm2Food Foundation, AYZH, Jaipur rugs and Selco Solar. There is a need to the number of such social enterprises in India. This chapter discusses the various factors that affect an individual’s intention to become a social entrepreneur. This study, conducted among students of India’s leading technical institutions, indicates that self-efficacy was found to be the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial intention.

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Tiwari, P., Bhat, A.K., Tikoria, J. (2018). Factors Affecting Individual’s Intention to Become a Social Entrepreneur. In: Agrawal, A., Kumar, P. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Models. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74488-9_3

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