The effect of individual entrepreneurship orientation on entrepreneurial behavior with the mediating role of entrepreneurial intention in post-graduate engineering students

Abstract

Globalization and knowledge-based economy have led to the alteration of the traditional mission of university education and research to economic and social development or the University of Entrepreneurship. Higher education in helping the skilled workforce to respond to the changing demands of the labor market in a knowledge-based economy is influenced by the entrepreneurial orientations and goals. So, this study aimed to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on entrepreneurial behavior with the mediating role of entrepreneurial intention from the perspective of graduate engineering students of Sistan and Baluchestan University. The research method was a correlation that was performed in the community of graduate engineering students of Sistan and Baluchestan University with a sample of 260 people based on simple random sampling. The research tools were three questionnaires: individual entrepreneurship orientation, entrepreneurial behavior, and entrepreneurial intention. Confirmatory validity and reliability of all three appropriate instruments were reported well. The analysis method using Lisrel software was a structural equation model. The results revealed that the orientation of individual entrepreneurship directly and indirectly through entrepreneurial intention is effective on entrepreneurial behavior. Entrepreneurial intent also had a direct effect on entrepreneurial behavior. It can be said that the values of risk-taking, activism, and innovation along with entrepreneurial intention will play a constructive role in entrepreneurial behavior. In a way, in the mobility and creation of entrepreneurial behavior of students, the attitudes and personality of the individual along with a specific goal play a constructive role.