Determinants Of Entrepreneurial Intention Research Articles

Social support and risk-taking propensity as predictors of entrepreneurial intention among undergraduates in Nigeria

Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among students of a university in Nigeria, with particular emphasis on their risk-taking propensity, social support and demographic variables. Design/methodology/approach Data for the study were collected from 350 undergraduates across seven faculties in Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, through a self-reported questionnaire. Descriptive and regression statistical analysis were used to estimate and test the relationship among entrepreneurial intention and social support, risk-taking propensity and demographic variables. Findings The results showed high entrepreneurial intention among the students. The push factors, such as perceived social support from families, risk-taking propensity and previous engagement in business, are key determinants of entrepreneurship intention among the students. The age and father’s occupation also showed a significant relationship with the level of entrepreneurial intention. Practical implications This result suggests that strengthening social support for entrepreneurship among students could enhance their desire to own a business during and after graduation. Improving entrepreneurship ecosystems in the university could further motivate those already practicing entrepreneurship while also stimulating intentions among others. For instance, provision of entrepreneurship infrastructure and incentives such as business incubators, innovation hubs, science parks and competitive business grants could enhance the risk-taking propensity among students and motivate them for venture creation. Originality/value Understanding the influence of social support and risk-taking propensity on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduates is important for policy and practice. The result further reinforces the need to promote entrepreneurship education to create a critical mass of potential entrepreneurs in the university.

Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and the moderation of entrepreneurial education: A study of the Brazilian context

Analyzing the effect of entrepreneurial education (EE) on the entrepreneurial intention (EI) in the Brazilian context is necessary to broaden the understanding of issues in emerging economies. The present study provides insights into these themes, analyzing the determinants of EI among university students in Brazil. Using data from research conducted at a Brazilian university, the present study examines the moderating role of EE in the relationship between attitudes toward entrepreneurship (AE), perceived social norms (PSN), and perceived entrepreneurial capacity (PEC) under EI. Therefore, a theoretical model that analyzes these relationships from the technique of structural equation modeling (SEM) is proposed. The present study offers an unprecedented contribution by analyzing the moderating role of EE on the relationship between social and subjective variables of EI in the context of an emerging country. The results demonstrate that EE did not contribute to reinforce determinants of EI. This shows the strong influence of cultural contexts (social norms) and of the place (EE of the analyzed institution) on EI. As a practical contribution, the result points to the need for Brazilian educational institutions to create solid EE programs; those that reinforce content and practical activities around social and cultural norms aimed at valuing entrepreneurship.

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention: A Study on Indonesian Students

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention: A Study on Indonesian Students

Gender-based differences in the relationships among proactive personality, perceived entrepreneurial support and entrepreneurial intention of Chinese private college students: A moderated mediation model

Proactive personality is a key determinant of entrepreneurial intention. Few studies have explored the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship. This study investigates the association between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intention and examines the mediating role of perceived entrepreneurial support and the moderating role of gender. Using a cross-sectional design, 1,515 senior students (women = 838, men = 677) from Chinese private colleges were recruited using random cluster sampling. They completed a battery of self-reported online questionnaires on proactive personality, perceived entrepreneurial support, and entrepreneurial intention. The results revealed that perceived entrepreneurial support mediates the association between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intention. Moderated mediation analysis indicated that the relationship between proactive personality and perceived entrepreneurial support and that between perceived entrepreneurial support and entrepreneurial intention are moderated by gender. Specifically, the positive association between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intention was stronger in male students, and the positive association between perceived entrepreneurial support and entrepreneurial intention was stronger in female students. This study contributes to the understanding of how proactive personality predicts entrepreneurial intention in Chinese private college students and bears implications for higher education institutions and policymakers that entrepreneurship promotion agenda should focus on improving perceived entrepreneurial support and considering the gender of students.

Determinants of entrepreneurial intention among scientific students: A social cognitive theory perspective

This paper analyzes the effects of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial intention in Morocco. The developed model suggests that entrepreneurship intention depends on two variables, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial passion, mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy. We use structural equation modeling to test the proposed model, based on a sample of 148 scientific and technical students from the Higher School of Technology, Khenifra, Morocco. The results demonstrate that entrepreneurial passion has a strong positive relationship on entrepreneurial intention, even when entrepreneurial self-efficacy is introduced as a mediator. Further, the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention is fully mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The findings confirm that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a central psychological mechanism that can convert entrepreneurship education into entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, individuals need to feel more self-efficacious in order to choose an entrepreneurial career, and entrepreneurship education should orient students towards an area in which they feel truly passionate.

Institutional determinants of entrepreneurial intention: The need for strategic alliances and entrepreneurial ecosystem

University education is no longer a passport to secure employment for graduates. In Zambia, for example, 72.3% of unemployed graduates are below the age of 35. Youth unemployment represents an enormous cost to society in terms of lost potential for economic growth, negative return on investment in education as well as a potential increase in vices such as crime. It appears the number of graduates is increasing while available job opportunities are fewer. This is compelling stakeholders to consider initiatives that promote new venture creation as an additional viable career option. Extant literature indicates that individuals with higher intention to start a business are more likely to actually engage in entrepreneurship than those with low or no intention. Understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial intention (EI), therefore, becomes important. In exploring the determinants of EI, prior studies investigate the effects of individual factors, contextual (institutional) factors and entrepreneurship education (EE) in isolation from each other; integrative models are lacking. Moreover, literature on the effect of EE on EI shows mixed conclusions. There is scanty research on EE and EI in developing countries such as Zambia and this limits the generalisability of research conclusions. The current study, by considering EE as the kernel, firstly examines individual and institutional determinants of EI. Secondly, it explores whether EE affects the relationships between EI and its individual and institutional determinants. To explore the interconnectedness of these issues while relying on a qualitative research strategy, the paper presents empirical results from 13 semi-structured interviews; interviewees being final year undergraduate students, entrepreneurship educators and practitioners in enterprise support organisations in Zambia. The findings indicate that the effect of EE on EI should be evaluated in conjunction with factors at the individual and institutional levels. This means that relevant individual and institutional factors exert their influence on EI directly and indirectly through their impact on the effectiveness of EE. The conclusions suggest that to promote graduate entrepreneurship, multifaceted and concerted efforts (strategic alliances) will be required from policymakers (to shape institutions), educators (to design and deliver appropriate EE content and pedagogy) and practitioners (to devise and implement collaborative enterprise support strategies and mechanisms).

Analysis of Environmental Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among Agricultural Students (Case Study of Ilam University)

Analysis of Environmental Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among Agricultural Students (Case Study of Ilam University)

Razvitie biznesa v Rossii: istoricheskie aspekty i rol' predprinimatel'skih namerenij

The article discusses the historical aspects of business development in Russia and the role of entrepreneurial activity and intentions in this process. Based on the analysis of scientific works in the field of entrepreneurial development, the main factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions are identified. They are classified into two categories: personal-level variables and institutional external variables. Entrepreneurial activity is analyzed in dynamics in terms of business density, the level of entrepreneurial intentions in Russia. The influence of the main determinants of entrepreneurial intentions on the attitude of students to entrepreneurial practice is considered.

Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Intention

Entrepreneurial intention is often considered the key determinant of business creation and the development of entrepreneurial behavior. To date, most studies on the determinants of entrepreneurial intention have collected data from undergraduate or graduate university students. In contrast, the present study addresses this issue at the secondary education level. The primary objective is to test students’ entrepreneurial intention between 16 and 18 years in Chile’s Secondary Technical-Professional Education programs. For this purpose, we applied a survey to a sample of 2373 students attending four different Technical-Professional Education Centres located in three different regions of this country. Based on the Entrepreneurial Potential Model, we tested the influence of perceived feasibility, perceived desirability, and propensity to act on students’ entrepreneurial intention. Applying a well-fitted logistic regression model shows that students with moderate risk propensity are more likely to show entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, the study observed no association between perceived feasibility nor perceived desirability of a business venture with students’ entrepreneurial intention; nor was a relationship found between the propensity to act and students’ entrepreneurial intention.

Entrepreneurial creativity and intention: Structural equation modelling among university students

The context of this research aims to analyse the effects of entrepreneurial creativity (EC) empirically on entrepreneurial intention through structural equation modelling by proposing and testing the model that has been developed previously developed. The goal of this study is to understand some of the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among university students consisting of 1,035 respondents. The research findings by testing EC and entrepreneurial intention (EI) models show that student creativity at the university has a very high level of significance in influencing students’ own entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, it is followed by creativity within family and the individuals’ creativity. The research findings will later become recommendations and options for campus policy in fostering student EI, especially for university students. 
 
 Keywords: Entrepreneurial creativity, entrepreneurial intention, structural equation modeling (SEM)

Entrepreneurial intentions among business students: the mediating role of attitude and the moderating role of university support

PurposeThis study aims to examine the potential determinants of entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) among business students. To that end, the study investigates the role of entrepreneurship education (EE) and entrepreneurial passion (EP) (inventing and founding), as well as the mediating role of attitude towards entrepreneurship (ATE) and the moderating role of university support.Design/methodology/approachA close-ended questionnaire measured on a seven-point Likert scale was used to collect data from business students at nine universities in Punjab, Pakistan. The sample size comprises 377 participants who were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was then applied to assess the study’s model and the postulated hypothesis.FindingsThe findings indicated that (a) every independent variable (IV) directly impacts EI [dependent variable (DV)] except EP for founding (EPF), (b) ATE significantly mediates the relationship between IV and DV (c) perceived university support positively moderates the relationship between ATE and EI.Originality/valueAs an implication to policy, the Government must ensure that students are exposed to business environments and find university support through different paths. Specifically, Pakistan’s Minister of Education and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) may consider designing university programs that lead to more influential EE. The empirical findings may help policymakers develop effective policies for promoting entrepreneurship.

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions of Youth: The Role of Access to Finance

This study aims to highlight the role of access to finance as one of the determinants on the decision to enter into entrepreneurship of students regarded as potential entrepreneurs. For achieving our main objective, we created a questionnaire. As a method of analysis, we run the least square logistic regression, with entrepreneurial intentions as a dependent variable and knowledge, education and availability of financial resources as predictors. We also included gender, university and locality as control variables. The sample is formed of 181 students from two universities from the North-Eastern region of Romania. The results reveal that access to finance is a significant determinant of the decision to enter into entreprenenruship for young people. Moreover, we show that the relation between access to finance and entrepreneurial intentions changes according to gender, university and locality of origin. Female students’ entrepreneurial intentions are influenced by the availability of bank loans and personal savings, while in case of male students - only by the availability of funds coming from family and friends. The funds coming from family and friends also determine students' entrepreneurial intentions coming from rural or urban areas. Entrepreneurial intentions are negatively related to education for male students and those coming from an economic profile university, and positively related to business knowledge only for students from rural areas. The results obtained could be important for financial resources providers (because they offer insight into how easy access to finance stimulates the entrepreneurial intentions of youth), for education providers (who can adapt their training programs and extracurricular activities to strengthen entrepreneurial intentions), and for decision makers (which may adopt appropriate policies to stimulate the economic development of an area).

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions: Impact of Culture, Gender, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy on University Students

The main objective of this study is to examine the socio-cultural and individual factors that influence the entrepreneurial intentions among students studying the Public Sector Universities in Sindh Province. In the cultural context, three variables i.e., collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance, one variable in social context i.e., gender-role orientation and two variables in individual context i.e., self-esteem and self-efficacy are used and empirically tested through the SEM model. It was found that all three components of culture have been negatively correlated with entrepreneurial intentions. These results infer that the prevalent family culture in Sindh Province is not supportive of entrepreneurial intention as respondents found strict control of elder family members over their future career choices, depressing and a hurdle in their way to become entrepreneurs. The feminist gender orientation of an individual is found to have a negative effect on the development of entrepreneurial spirit. This stands in support of the dominant notion that masculine gender orientation is required to become a vibrant entrepreneur. Under the masculine approach, an individual prefers to have characteristics like tough, assertive, calculated and pursue material success in life; contrary to the feminist orientation which focuses on being tender, modest and pursuing the relational quality in life. The findings reveal that individuals who carry a high worth for themselves and believe in their abilities to address the challenges of running a business tend to have more entrepreneurial intentions. Lastly, the role of gender as moderator shows that the cultural barriers have a more negative impact on the formation of entrepreneurial intents of female than male students. Based on the findings of this study and informal observations from students during the field, it is recommended that the policymakers should invest in strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem, focusing on the provision of entrepreneurial educational infrastructure, building family & culture support structures that can help potential students enhance their self-esteem, self-efficacy and get necessary socio-cultural capital to become successful entrepreneurs.

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among National Diploma Students of Polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria

The purpose of the study was to find out the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among National Diploma Students of Polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria. Specifically, the study addressed five research questions and five null hypotheses. The design for the study was descriptive survey design. The population of the study was made up of 5,932. Purposive random sampling technique was used to select five hundred and seventy seven (577) students from the fourteen polytechnics using Yaro Yamane’s formular for determining sample size. A structured questionnaire, namely MVEIQ used for data collection were adapted from six different people. The MVEIQ comprises of 49 items and was meant to measure their agreement level. Results obtained in the pilot tested questionnaire revealed that the study’s instrument was reliable. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS (Version 21). Findings of the study revealed that the five variables had influence on student’s entrepreneurial intentions. All the hypotheses tested using multiple regression at 0.05 level of significance, revealed that there were significant contribution of the variables in the model. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Federal government in collaboration with State governments should provide scholarships/bursaries for performing students by way of encouragement. All barriers to entry should be taken into consideration by stakeholders in developing the entrepreneurial intentions of Polytechnics students.

Effects of Gender on Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Perspective

Based on a sample of 301 first, second and third-year undergrad entrepreneurship students from a university of technology in South Africa, the purpose of this research paper was to investigate the effects of gender on students’ entrepreneurial intentions (EI), as well as the determinants of EI. The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) underpins this research. The study’s objectives were to establish whether the TPB might assist in explaining the effects of gender on students’ EI, as well as the factors that influence EI. The data was analysed using partial least square (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM) algorithm in SmartPLS 3.3.3. The findings of this study revealed that gender has no significant relationship with students’ EI, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and attitude towards behaviour. In terms of the TPB, the findings revealed that all the antecedents of the TPB have a statistically significant correlation with EI. The findings suggest that the TPB can be regarded as a useful tool for evaluating students’ EI.

Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among the immigrants: Canadian perspective

Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among the immigrants: Canadian perspective

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher National Diploma Students of Polytechnics in Bauchi State

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher National Diploma Students of Polytechnics in Bauchi State

Determinant of Entrepreneurial Intention at High Education

This study aims to find out how the influence of Dukungan university and leadership skills and Perceived Desire on Entrepreneurial Intentions.  The grand theory of this research is the theory of the Entrepreneurial Even Model Theory  from Shapero.  The research method used is the Explanatory Survey Method. The population is Accounting Education students throughout Indonesia, with a sample size using the Isaac & Michael formula obtained a sample size of 366 respondents. Data collection uses numerically scaled questionnaires. Data processing techniques use path analysis. The results showed that university support and leadership skills and perceived desires had a positive effect on  the tension ofentrepreneurship.  University support as the most influential variable in improving entrepreneurial intentions It is recommended to increase the indicators of the entrepreneurial support variable  a in  business development support, leadership skills on technical skills indicators , the perceived desire on the indicators of  social norms and increasing the variables of entrepreneurial intesi on the indicators that the results are possible to be achieved.

A Study of Students’ Intention to Practice Entrepreneurship in Pharmacy

Background: Entrepreneurship is frequently cited as a remedy to unemployment and stagnant economic growth. The rising demand for healthcare services has opened up nuance opportunities for entrepreneurship in the pharmaceutical industry. Yet, exposure of pharmacy students to entrepreneurship remains unappreciated. This study, therefore, investigated the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among pharmacy students in the University of Lagos. Methods: An integrated model was developed which combined factors from the theory of planned behaviour, the entrepreneurial events model, risk taking, and family background to explain determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among pharmacy students in the University of Lagos. The study used a cross-sectional descriptive research approach. The snowballing sampling approach was used to sample 148 students from the specified sampling frame. The model was estimated using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique, whereas the hypotheses and research questions were tested using the t-test. Results: The findings revealed that perception of entrepreneurial desirability is a significant predictor of entrepreneurial intentions. Parental agreement was also found to have a negative but significant impact on entrepreneurial intention giving partial support to the hypothesis. This result prompts further research on the influence of parents on entrepreneurial intention. The other variables – attitude, social norms, perceived behavioural control, perception of entrepreneurial feasibility, risk taking were not significant in determining entrepreneurial intentions. Conclusion: Research and policies regarding entrepreneurship should focus on how best to make entrepreneurship attractive to pharmacy students to boost productive investment in the health sector and address the epidemic of youth unemployment.

Determinants of entrepreneurial intention among students of management stream in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Determinants of entrepreneurial intention among students of management stream in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia