Title | Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation (SEO) Programme for B School Students from Pune |
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ID_Doc | 74561 |
Authors | Despande, AK; Kau, N |
Title | Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation (SEO) Programme for B School Students from Pune |
Year | 2021 |
Published | Pacific Business Review International, 14, 5 |
Abstract | The aim of this research paper is to study and classify drivers of the sustainability orientation forstudents, enrolled in the entrepreneurship programme, of B schools at Pune anddetermine their relative value and validity for the student population.Primarily, two categories of driversderived from from literature: individual drivers and contextual drivers were included in the study. The study adopted a quantitative research approach based on a structured questionnaire and administered to 265 business school students from Pune region in Maharashtra to measure the significance of each driver which were the observed aspects of the latent variable, SEO. To analyze the data gathered, structural equation modelling was applied.The findings indicate that the two of drivers investigated here are interdependent and contextual factors, tend to be more significant in predicting SEO than individual drivers. This research contributes to the SEO literature and provides guidelines for B schools to use in deciding the best methodsto enhance SEO in students. Understanding SEO is also important because, as set out in future Vision, it will affect the number and existence of sustainable projects and, ultimately, sustainability as the ultimate goal of India |