Abstract
Globalization provides international career opportunities and options, such as entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship education is currently promoted in both national and European educational strategies. For university students, the viability of this career option depends on their own motivations, perceived competencies, and professional objectives. This study uses a structural equations model analyses the factors that affect the intention to create an international company. It focuses on how intercultural skills, cognitive cultural intelligence, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and linguistic competence affects students’ motivation to create a company with an international vocation. The results of the study show that proficiency in a foreign language, language competence, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy are relevant factors. The research also discusses the implications of these results for teaching in higher education institutions. There is a need to update graduates’ employability skills and the competences that future teachers must acquire.
Highlights
Business creation drives economic growth and regional development (Carree & Thurik, 2010; Fritsch, 2011; Zampetakis, Kafetsios, Bouranta, Dewett & Moustakis, 2009)
The second focuses on behaviour and uses the Entrepreneurial Event Model (EEM: Shapero & Sokol, 1982) and Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; 1991; 2005) to analyse the origin of the entrepreneur’s intention
The results show that cognitive cultural intelligence, language proficiency, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy have a positive impact on an entrepreneur’s motivation for setting up a project with an international vocation
Summary
Business creation drives economic growth and regional development (Carree & Thurik, 2010; Fritsch, 2011; Zampetakis, Kafetsios, Bouranta, Dewett & Moustakis, 2009). The first focuses on the personality of the entrepreneur (Dinis, do Paço, Ferreira, Raposo & Gouveia, 2013), emotional intelligence (Ahmetoglu et al, 2011; Neghabi, Yousefi & Rezvani, 2011) and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (Liñán & Chen, 2009; Zampetakis et al, 2009). The factors involved in an entrepreneur’s intention to create a company must be combined with those that are involved in his or her intention to begin an international career. This professional orientation has a strong vocational component (Lee, Porfeli & Hirschi, 2016). The results show that cognitive cultural intelligence, language proficiency, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy have a positive impact on an entrepreneur’s motivation for setting up a project with an international vocation
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