Abstract
Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) significantly influenced not only by attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior, personality traits, and perceived entrepreneurial behavioral control, but also by entrepreneurial education for creation of new business. EI is the key factor that explains the entrepreneur’s ability to engage in entrepreneurial actions. This study hypothesized the direct relationships of entrepreneur’s attitude towards entrepreneurial behavior, personality traits, perceived entrepreneurial behavioral control, and entrepreneurial education with EI. Moreover, this study hypothesized the mediation of entrepreneurial education between attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior and EI and the mediation of entrepreneurial education between perceived behavioral control and EI. The current study collected data from the university students who have already taught entrepreneurship course in several departments. A self-administered survey questionnaire was used to collect 476 questionnaires from the students. PLS-SEM software was used for data analysis. In addition, the study supported the direct relationship of attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior, personality traits, and perceived entrepreneurial behavioral control, and entrepreneurial education with EI. This study supported the partial mediation of entrepreneurial education between perceived behavioral control and EI. This study supported the partial mediation of entrepreneurial education between perceived entrepreneurial behavioral control and EI. This study suggested to the policy makers that for planning the education careers of students particularly incorporating important determinants of entrepreneurial intentions that they should consider the age of entrepreneur, training, and experience factor while investigating determinants of EI

Dr. Khawar Naheed, Ishrat Blouch, Muhammad Arif Nawaz. (2018) Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurial Education, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 2.
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