Abstract
This study aimed to fill the literature gap of entrepreneurial intention antecedents from the academic staff’s perspective using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in an underdeveloped country context. Empirical results were derived from a quantitative approach based on a survey method with a selected academic staff sample of 97 Sudanese public universities. Hypotheses testing was done using the structural equation modeling (SEM) through the partial least squares (PLS) method to test the impact of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived control as the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention. The study results revealed the applicability and consistency of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in explaining Sudan’s academic entrepreneurial intention. The results indicated that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived control explained 61.70% of the entrepreneurial intention (EI) variance. Perceived control (PC) proved to be the primary antecedent of EI, which explained 42.20% of EI variance, while the business environment and experience were the leading influencers of perceived control. This result can guide the authorities to formulate policies that encourage the transformation of the Sudanese universities to be entrepreneurial.
Highlights
In the last few decades, entrepreneurship has gained attention universally as an essential instrument to improve economic growth
The study implemented the Confirmatory Tetrad path coefficient magnitude linking each of the two Analysis (CTA) via computing all vanishing constructs with a global item obtained by averagtetrads and examining the upper and lower ing each construct’s constituting indicators
This study was based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explain the influence of perceived control, subjective norms, and attitude on the academic staff’s entrepreneurial intention in Sudanese universities
Summary
In the last few decades, entrepreneurship has gained attention universally as an essential instrument to improve economic growth. The research problem was examining the influence of perceived control, attitude, and subjective norms on academic entrepreneurial intention. Regarding the triggering factors that motivate entrepreneurship, Mansour and Omer (2020) This study replicated the intention-based model, stated that the respondents’ entrepreneurial in- which was elaborated by Miranda et al (2017) who tention is predictable from the attitude towards integrated various entrepreneurial intention predicbecoming entrepreneurs, perceived behavioral tors into one cohesive framework. Their findings re- cluded the antecedents of entrepreneurial attitude vealed that TPB is a valuable tool in understand- (creativity, self-confidence, perceived utility, and ing university students’ entrepreneurial intention business experience).
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