Testing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Business, Engineering and Arts & Science Students Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A Comparative Study
Using the theory of planned behaviour, the study tested the impact of entrepreneurship education on business, engineering and arts and science students. The study adopted a pretest-post-test (timel, tl and time2, t2) to measure the change of attitudes and intentions over a period of six months. The participants who took entrepreneurship as a compulsory or elective course within their curriculum are totally 450. To measure attitude, the subjective norm, and perceived bahavioural control, the study adopted a measure proposed by Kolvereid (1996a). For the intention to become self-employed, the study adopted a 3-item measure of career intention, proposed by Kolvereid (1996a), which captures the intention of an individual to start a business. The results showed that the post-programme mean values of subjective norm, attitude towards self-employment, perceived behavioural control and intention towards self-employment increased in relation to the preprogramme ones. But the mean difference value in all four variables is higher for business students when compared to the other two students groups.
R.Murugesan
National Institute of Technology, India
国际会议
2011 Academy for Global Business Advancement(AGBAs)8th World Congress(全球商务发展学会第八届国际会议)
大连
英文
334-352
2011-09-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）