Entrepreneurial Intentions for University Students: Quality, Concern, Ability, and Personal Background
Previous findings reveal a difference between the attitude about entrepreneurship and actual behavior, which implies that intentions are influenced by attitudes, while being moderated by other factors. Later researchers developed a variety of intentions models.Today university students and graduates see the opportunity of founding a company as an attractive alternative to salary or wage employment. Yet the question needs to be investigated further so as to discover the influencing elements.After an initial survey, a list of 16 items was generated. A confirmatory factor analysis suggested these items could be segregated into three constructs, which are entrepreneurship quality, personal concern, and self assessment of ability. These three aspects, together with personal background, form the antecedents of the students entrepreneurial intentions.Taking 164 university students as sample, using one-way ANOVA and discriminant analysis, we look at whether the three antecedents above influence the students entrepreneurial intentions. Moreover, we also look at the relationship between students personal background and the three constructs. Students vary according to gender, education, age, current employment status, and entrepreneurial history. And the result is astonishing.
University Students Entrepreneurial Intention Entrepreneurship Quality Personal Concern Self-assessment of Ability Personal Background
ZHAO Yan LU Jing ZHOU Wen
Center for Learning, Innovation, and Management of Business Shanghai University, PR China Shanghai University, Shanghai, PR China Department of Computer Science Shanghai, PR China
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
1216-1220
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）