Purpose

Social entrepreneurship (SE) presents specificities that the entrepreneur must address. Entrepreneurial intention (EI) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in SE should reflect specific characteristics of behavior. The purpose of this study is to identify the intention of Brazilian university students to undertake SE, having individual social EO (individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO)-social) as their predictive behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper collected study data from Brazilian university students. To test the study’s hypotheses, this paper used confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation model, partial least squares and generalized linear regression model.

Findings

The results indicate that Brazilian university students positively respond to their intention to become social entrepreneurs in the future, regardless of gender, courses or types of universities. In line with the literature, IEO-Social proved to be a strong predictor of EI-social.

Research limitations/implications

This study was limited to understanding EI-social from IEO-Social. Besides, its sample is non-probabilistic, therefore, the findings of this study cannot be generalized.

Practical implications

The results encourage the inclusion of SE in entrepreneurial education programs. They guide the involvement of students from different areas of knowledge in activities aimed at higher education.

Social implications

Evidence indicates that including the SE theme in entrepreneurial education programs proves to be valuable for opening purposeful career opportunities for students.

Originality/value

The study contributes to eliminating the gap in studies on EI-social in Brazilian university students. It also offers the IEO-social scale, theoretically constructed and with superior psychometric quality.

中文翻译：

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社会企业家精神：巴西大学生朝着有目的的职业发展

目的

社会企业家精神 (SE) 提出了企业家必须解决的特殊问题。SE 中的创业意图 (EI) 和创业取向 (EO) 应反映特定的行为特征。本研究的目的是确定巴西大学生进行 SE 的意图，将个人社会 EO（个人创业取向（IEO）-社会）作为他们的预测行为。

设计/方法/方法

本文收集了巴西大学生的学习数据。为了检验研究的假设，本文使用了验证性因素分析、结构方程模型、偏最小二乘法和广义线性回归模型。

发现

结果表明，无论性别、课程或大学类型如何，巴西大学生都积极响应他们未来成为社会企业家的意图。与文献一致，IEO-Social 被证明是 EI-social 的强预测因子。

研究限制/影响

本研究仅限于从 IEO-Social 理解 EI-social。此外，它的样本是非概率的，因此，本研究的结果不能一概而论。

实际影响

结果鼓励将 SE 纳入创业教育计划。他们指导来自不同知识领域的学生参与旨在开展高等教育的活动。

社会影响

有证据表明，在创业教育计划中包含 SE 主题被证明对于为学生提供有目的的职业机会很有价值。

原创性/价值

该研究有助于消除巴西大学生在 EI 社会研究方面的差距。它还提供了 IEO 社会量表，理论上构建并具有卓越的心理测量质量。