Rural Entrepreneurial Intention and Sense of Social Responsibility: the Mediating Role of TL

Despite the fact that insight of entrepreneurial opportunity of college student and their sense of social responsibility are important for the quality of Entrepreneurship Education in the ever-changing 21st-century, there is still little research into leadership and education factors that influence students’ sight of entrepreneurial opportunity and sense of social responsibility. Based on longitudinal data (2020, 2021,2022) from a select sample of 351 college students (being part of a research panel) who participated an entrepreneurial project in university, a quantity method was used for investigating in which areas of identification of entrepreneurial opportunity college students had transformational leadership needs and how their sense of social responsibility was related to leadership style. The findings show that students’ insight of entrepreneurial opportunity has been improved and their normative postulated change of entrepreneur’s role has yet permeated their practice throughout a two-year entrepreneurial project which aims to improve transformational leadership style, and contribute to confirmation of the combined used theories and concepts of leadership in education, leaderships’ influence on student variables. This study also adds to our insights into the complexity of entrepreneurial education in line with social responsibility.