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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