Sustainable agribusiness entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 crisis: the role of social capital

Abstract

PurposeThe crucial action program of United Nations is sustainable development. In the context of lockdown and food supply chain disruptions in many developing countries due to COVID-19, sustainable agribusiness entrepreneurship (SAE) must be investigated to contribute to the global safe-food supply chain resilience. Furthermore, this pandemic might have changed cognitive social capital (i.e. perceived shared norms, civicness and community cohesiveness) and relational social capital (i.e. social trust). Therefore, this study aims to examine their role in forming agribusiness entrepreneurs’ SAE intentions under the lens of sustainable development in the pandemic context.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a mixed-methods approach with resources for structural equation modeling. A sample of 499 Vietnamese agribusiness entrepreneurs to reconcile scales and test hypothesized relationships.FindingsThe study reconciles the existing constructs’ scales and develops a new scale measuring SAE intention. The findings show that the extended theory of planned behavior (ETPB) model is an ideal theoretical framework for predicting behavioral intentions in sustainability. The study also discovers the role of cognitive social capital and relational social capital in motivating SAE intentions. Also, some managerial implications are suggested for agribusinessmen to survive and succeed during the COVID-19 crisis.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is considered the first to investigate the role of cognitive social capital and relational social capital in motivating SAE in an emerging market using the ETPB. The findings will help emerging economies, where most farmers are family-business owners or micro-scaled entrepreneurs who have been facing the increasing trend of sustainable production and consumer.

Development of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) With Self-Efficacy to Explain The Intention To Be A Farmer in The Zinenial Generation

“…The results of this study agree with those of Lang et al (2022) show that CBP positively influences behavioral intentions. In addition, his PBCt statistic for Self-Efficacy is 3.585, with a p-value < 0.000.…”

Peningkatan Daya Saing UMKM melalui Social Capital

“…Penelitian ini sepakat dengan teori Barney Resources Based View atau RBV bahwa sumberdaya adalah aset strategis dalam ikut persaingan. Sama halnya dengan penelitian sebelumnya modal sosial berpengaruh untuk para pelaku usaha berkelanjutan (Akintimehin et al, 2019;Andriani & Christoforou, 2016;Anshori, 2020;EGBERI & OMOGBIYA, n.d.;Febrian & Maulina, 2018;Lang et al, 2022;Muslikah et al, 2018;Schlepphorst et al, 2020;Supriandi, 2022;Yani et al, 2020;Yekty & Solovida, 2021). Dimensi modal sosial yang diusulkan (Andriani, 2013;Bourdieu & Richardson, 1986; J. S. Coleman, 1988;Fujiwara & Kawachi, 2008;Fukuyama, 2002;Prusak & Cohen, 2001;Putnam, 1994) ini relevan dengan perkembangan dinamis bisnis di masa kini.…”

“…Sebagai akibat tantangan ini, sebagian besar bisnis di sektor informal mengalami ketidakstabilan dan tidak bertahan lebih dari tiga tahun (Agyapong et al, 2017). Namun demikian, para pemilik usaha di sektor informal nampaknya belum mampu untuk menciptakan, memperluas dan mengeksploitasi kekayaan modal sosial yang mereka miliki untuk memastikan peningkatan kinerja dan pertumbuhan bisnis (Agyapong et al, 2017;Febrian & Maulina, 2018;Supriandi, 2022), meskipun penelitian menunjukkan besarnya modal sosial berakar pada jaringan pribadi pengusaha sangat penting untuk efisien kinerja usahanya (Akintimehin et al, 2019;Lang et al, 2022; Jurnal Multidisiplin West Science al., 2021). Literature sebelumnya memberikan pandangan bahwa social capital penunjang keberlanjutan UMKM di tengah persaingan mereka (Akintimehin et al, 2019;Andriani, 2013;Andriani & Christoforou, 2016;Fukuyama, 2002;Purwati et al, 2021;Yani et al, 2020).…”

Sociocultural factors and social entrepreneurial intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary evidence from developing countries

“…These theoretical backgrounds received prominence and credibility to explain the formation of intention throughout many research areas, such as technology acceptance (e.g., Fink et al, 2022;Marangunić & Granić, 2015), consumer services (e.g., Paul et al, 2016;Timpanaro & Cascone, 2022), supply chain management (e.g., Kamble et al, 2019;Shou et al, 2022), family business (e.g., Graves et al, 2022;Singh et al, 2021), product innovation (e.g., Kim et al, 2019;Tóth et al, 2020), small business (e.g., Harrison et al, 1997;Sandhu & El-Gohary, 2022), and absorptive capacity (e.g., Chao & Yu, 2022;Mo et al, 2022). More interestingly, these foundations have recently emerged as a cornerstone in investigating the COVID-19 influence on intention research across several fields, including psychology (e.g., Islam et al, 2020;Shanka & Gebremariam Kotecho, 2021);tourism (e.g., Jeon et al, 2022;Xu et al, 2022); sustainability (e.g., Cahigas et al, 2022;Seong et al, 2021); and, more importantly, entrepreneurship (e.g., Lang et al, 2022;Li et al, 2022;Seah, 2021).…”