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Despite the fact that entrepreneurs often aim to fulfil environmental, political and social goals, the role of task-specific self-efficacies in entrepreneurial intention, other than entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and the relationship of self-efficacies with entrepreneurial social identities have been largely ignored in the entrepreneurship literature. Since entrepreneurial success requires strong interpersonal skills and the dominant goal of some entrepreneurs is to create social value, in this paper we investigate how and why social self-efficacy may be an important factor underlying entrepreneurial intention. Our results show that while the effect of Darwinian social identity on entrepreneurial intention is mediated only by entrepreneurial self-efficacy, the effect of communitarian social identity is fully mediated by both social and entrepreneurial self-efficacies. However, individuals with a missionary social identity expect to need additional self-efficacies to become successful entrepreneurs. Thus, our results suggest that, in addition to entrepreneurial self-efficacy, other task-specific selfefficacies should be considered when examining the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention. Perceived environmental support did not moderate the mediating effect of the examined self-efficacies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study relies on REDI (Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index) to analyse the entrepreneurial performance of the 22 Hungarian city regions and to compare them with the other 118 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 European Union regions. REDI is a novel and unique composite indicator encompassing 28 individual and institutional variables, 14 pillars, three sub-indices, and the REDI super index. REDI aims to measure the entrepreneurship ecosystem at the regional level and to provide tailor-made policy recommendations based on PFB (Penalty for Bottleneck Methodology). The Hungarian city regions can be found at the bottom of the ranking except for Budapest that has much higher performance than any other regions of the country. However, Budapest and other more developed Hungarian regions show a low level of entrepreneurial performance as compared with the development-implied trend line. The study also presents a simulation on how to use effectively additional resources in order to increase the REDI score by five in each 22 Hungarian city regions. While cultural support and high growth are bottlenecks for many city regions, the composition of the 14 pillars is unique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]