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Aim/objectiveGiven an escalated interest in fostering environmental protection, scholars have associated green entrepreneurial behavior as a stimulating factor and the cornerstone of green entrepreneurial performance. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanism that nurtures university students’ green entrepreneurial behavior is yet to be explored in the extant literature. Our study proposes the antecedent effects of institutional support and green knowledge transfer to enhance university students’ green entrepreneurial behavior. Moreover, we also expand the boundary conditions of these relationships and suggest the mediating effect of university students’ absorptive capacity and the moderating effect of environmental responsibility.MethodologyThe study samples university graduates in Chinese universities (N = 434) by adopting a lagged research design spanning over three months. We assessed the proposed model through the multivariate analytical technique.FindingsThe findings indicate that institutional support and green knowledge transfer significantly elevate university students’ green entrepreneurial behavior. Further, these relationships are intervened considerably through absorptive capacity’s mediating effect and environmental responsibility’s moderating effect.ImplicationsBy investigating the crucial roles of institutional support and green knowledge transfer in culminating university students’ green entrepreneurial behavior, our study extends the boundary conditions of these relationships and investigates the hitherto unexplored moderated mediation model.

研究目标：鉴于全球对环境保护的关注度日益高涨，学者们将绿色创业行为（green entrepreneurial behavior）视为推动绿色创业绩效的核心驱动因素与基石。然而，现有文献尚未探明培育大学生绿色创业行为的内在作用机制。本研究提出制度支持（institutional support）与绿色知识转移（green knowledge transfer）的前因效应，以促进大学生的绿色创业行为。此外，本研究还拓展了上述关系的边界条件，并提出大学生的吸收能力（absorptive capacity）发挥中介效应、环境责任（environmental responsibility）发挥调节效应的研究假设。

研究方法：本研究采用为期三个月的滞后追踪研究设计，以中国高校毕业生为研究样本（有效样本量N=434），并通过多元分析技术对所提出的理论模型进行实证检验。

研究结果：结果表明，制度支持与绿色知识转移能够显著提升大学生的绿色创业行为。进一步而言，吸收能力的中介效应与环境责任的调节效应显著作用于上述两类关系。

研究启示：本研究通过探究制度支持与绿色知识转移在促成大学生绿色创业行为中的关键作用，拓展了上述关系的边界条件，并首次对这一尚未被学界探索的有调节的中介模型（moderated mediation model）展开实证研究。