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    The effect of social capital, human capital and religiosity on social entrepreneurial orientation among undergraduate students in Malaysia: entrepreneurial awareness as a mediator
    ( 2019)
    Abdullah AbdulElah Ali Sallam
    Youth represent an important target of the population with great potential and a valuable resource to work as social entrepreneurship. The quest to understand the characteristics of youth who choose to do social entrepreneurship, however, has been hampered by limited literatures on the social and personality factors that impact students' orientation towards social entrepreneurship. To bridge this gap, the researcher used three theories, namely the Theory of Human Capital, Social Capital Theory, and Entrepreneurial Orientation Theory, as theoretical underpinnings for the study’s framework. In addition, a new variable, which is religiosity, was added in order to predict youths' orientation towards social entrepreneurship for community service. The respondents of the study were between 18 to 26 years of age that currently pursuing their studies in six selected public universities in Malaysia. Using the content and thematic analysis, data for all the study variables were collected through self-administered survey questionnaires and analysed using SPSS version 25.0 and Smart-PLS version 3.0. A total of 600 sets of questionnaires have been distributed and 515 questionnaires were usable for coding, analysing and testing the hypotheses. The study’s findings showed that human capital, social capital, entrepreneurial awareness, and religiosity positively influenced social entrepreneurial orientation. The findings also revealed a partially mediating effect of entrepreneurial awareness in the relationship between human capital and social capital with social entrepreneurial orientation. The results also demonstrated that the hypothesized model was fit and all hypotheses were supported. Sample from old people and other variables related to social entrepreneurship behaviour were suggested to be included in future research.