Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Street Food Business: Government, Incentives and Community Role During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

During Covid-19 Pandemic, it necessary to learn about street food business sustainable entrepreneurship behavior. This sector business is a potential sector to apply green practice and the number constantly increasing every year.   None of the previous studies during a pandemic had conduct research on this sector business to learn about their sustainable entrepreneurship behavior.  In this research, we try to find the role of government policy, financial incentives and the community surrounding the role of street food business sustainable entrepreneurship behavior.  Our research was conduct to 187 street food business owners in South Kalimantan – Indonesia as samples during the Covid-19 pandemic.  We used purposive sampling to taken samples and using questionnaires as a research instrument.  Data analysis had done by quantitative descriptive and structural equation model This study had found the financial incentives and community surrounding had a significant impact to street food business behavior and more important to consider by street food owner during Covid-19 pandemic than government policy which has no significant effect to sustainable entrepreneurship street food business behavior.