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In recent years, the association between entrepreneurship and sustainable development has been recognized as an important issue to provide possible solutions in order to achieve sustainability and to resolve the existing situation. Along with innovation, entrepreneurship has been recognized as a key element for addressing the challenges of sustainable development. Thus, this paper has made an attempt to study the developments in the existing literature and to highlight how sustainable entrepreneurial activities lead toward the attainment of SDGs specifically SDG 8 by means of a systematic literature review. To structure this research and systematized the current literature on sustainable entrepreneurship and SDG-8, the systematic literature review approach was adopted. The review process was initiated with a literature search on the Scopus indexing online database of scientific articles published between 2015 and 2021. VOSviewer (software version 1.6.10) was used to conduct the analysis, which is a data mining tool commonly used in systematic review studies. The bibliometric analysis displays that the scientific literature over the past few years evolved which suggests tremendous growth in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship and SDG-8 in recent years (i.e. 2020 and 2021). Furthermore, five research themes were identified via thorough analysis. The themes are classified into five distinct clusters that comprise recent trends in existing literature in the areas of SDGs, sustainable development, economic and social growth, sustainability, higher education and others. This systematic literature review was conducted with the purpose to analyze the scientific literature on sustainable entrepreneurship which is considered a strong engine for promoting economic and social development and growth of an economy. The focus was made on the objective that how sustainable entrepreneurship will lead in attaining the SDGs, especially the SDG-8 attainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary goal of this research study was to inspect the role of entrepreneurial skills in influencing entrepreneurial intentions as well as the mediating role of attitude towards behavior (ATB) on the relation between entrepreneurial skills and intentions. The analysis shows that although some work has been done on intentions, attitude, and behavior in general, but a very limited work has been done on the association of these constructs with entrepreneurship. This presents a gap in literature, and this research article effectively grasps this opportunity to address this gap. A cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from employees of registered IT firms in Punjab province of Pakistan. The responses of 387 Pakistani information technology professionals were gathered through a self-administrative survey utilizing a simple random sampling technique. PLS-SEM was used for the study of measurement and structural model. According to the findings of PLS-SEM, a high perceived feasibility to start a venture mediates the association between entrepreneurship competencies and entrepreneurial intentions. The results of this paper have important implications for government and higher education institutions in terms of enhancing entrepreneurial capacity. This is one of the pioneer studies that examines the relationship of entrepreneurial skills and intentions as well as the arbitrating role of attitude towards behavior, as there exists a gap in literature. This research sheds light on the Theory of Planned Behavior in a novel way as the exogenous and mediating variables adopted in this research have not been tested before in the same theoretical model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increased competition in today's business world and industrial revolution 4.0, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) undergo swift and vigorous changes. For this reason, SMEs were expected to pay their attention to innovative work behaviors (IWB) to ensure survival in the competitive world. This research evaluates the effect of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) dimensions (including communicative, motivational, strategic, and personal) on innovative work behavior (IWB) of people employed in SMEs of Oman. Moreover, mediating role of innovation support (IS) is examined on the relationship of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) and innovative work behavior (IWB). Data were collected through personally administered survey questionnaires from the population of SME sector employees and managers in Oman. A total of 211 usable responses were collected and then further analyzed through SmartPLS 3.3.3 (PLS-SEM) software while a two-stage reflective-formative analysis of higher-order and lower-order constructs was conducted. The results exhibit that entrepreneurial leadership and innovation support have a significant positive impact on innovative work behavior (IWB). Additionally, a mediating role of innovation support was also confirmed on the relationship between EL and IWB. All four dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) were reported with a substantial direct and indicted effect on innovative work behavior (IWB) of people employed in SME sector in Oman. This is a pioneer study in Oman that examined the influence of entrepreneurial leadership (EL) dimensions on innovative work behavior (IWB) and mediating role of innovation support using a reflective-formative higher order analysis. Finally, practical and theoretical implications along with future research directions were suggested at the end of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]