Abstract
This study assesses whether final-year undergraduate students at Sana'a University, Yemen intend to start their own business. The study employs the theory of planned behaviour and two environmental factors to explore whether the theory's behavioural factors and the contextual factors of Lüthje & Franke's model have an impact on students' intentions to start their own business. A questionnaire survey with a random sample of 335 final-year university students from the largest public university in Yemen has been conducted. Data has been analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation and structural equation modelling. The findings indicate that students' perceptions of entrepreneurship have a strong, direct impact on self-employment intention, excluding social norms and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Students' self-employment intention is directly affected by perceived barriers and support factors in the entrepreneurship-related context. To increase their entrepreneurial abilities, university students require more training and education to be able to start new businesses. Developing entrepreneurial skills among citizens may improve the societal norms of business. The outcomes provide significant implications for policymakers, academic communities and international bodies.
Highlights
The role of entrepreneurship in economic development has received increasing attention since evidence has proven that entrepreneurship generates the most economic activity [1,2,3]
To address the above gap, the current study focuses on the contextual factors that were assumed to have an influence on self-employment intention through two types of environmental-related factors: the perceived barriers and perceived support of entrepreneurship
The findings revealed that students’ perceived behavioural control or entrepreneurial self-efficacy does not have a significant impact on their self-employment intentions (β = 0.027, t = 0.658, p > 0.05)
Summary
The role of entrepreneurship in economic development has received increasing attention since evidence has proven that entrepreneurship generates the most economic activity [1,2,3]. Countries with high unemployment rates where economic systems search for alternative methods to provide employment usually have economic institutions with focused policies to facilitate selfemployment in the general population, especially for university graduates [4,5,6]. Providing job opportunities for all graduate students is a crucial issue of relevant authorities in various contexts. Several studies have indicated that entrepreneurship is a career interest in various countries [8,9,10], regions [11], several business administration programs and university students [12,13,14]
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