Can Social Capital and Psychological Capital Improve the Entrepreneurial Performance of the New Generation of Migrant Workers in China?

Sustainability

Federico Topolansky Barbe¹  Hongyu Ma²  YongmeiCarol Zhang³ 

[1] F University, No. 3 Taicheng Road, XianYang 712100, China;;College of Economics and Management, Northwest A &School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, GL7 6JS, UK;

关键词: social capital;    psychological capital;    entrepreneurial outcomes;    new generation of migrant workers;    China;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su10113964

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The new generation of migrant workers may play a crucial role in boosting China’s rural economy. With the rise of knowledge economy and the advent of the information age, it is difficult for human capital and economic capital alone to gain advantages in entrepreneurship. Thus, the study of social capital and psychological capital becomes more prominent. Within this context, this paper explores the relationships among entrepreneurs’ psychological capital, social capital, and entrepreneurial outcomes for the new generation of migrant workers in the Shaanxi province. This study uses a quantitative research approach. Primary data were collected from 525 rural households in the Shaanxi province. A structural equation model is used to verify the association between social capital, psychological capital, and entrepreneurial performance. The psychological capital of the new generation of migrant workers is found to exert a more significant impact on their entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial environment perception than social capital. Both entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial environment perception of the new generation of migrant workers are conducive to the improvement of entrepreneurial performance. Nevertheless, the intermediary role of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition is more prominent than entrepreneurial environment perception.

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