Individual Entrepreneurial Intent: Construct Clarification and Development of an Internationally Reliable Metric

By E. Thompson. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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A Conceptual Model of Social Entrepreneurial Intention Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (2016, background): “Thompson refers to entrepreneurial intention as “a self-acknowledged conviction by a person that they intend to set up a new business venture and consciously plan to do so at some point in the future” (Thompson, 2009, p. 676).”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “It is defined as the conscious state of mind directing behavior, personal attention, and experience, toward planned entrepreneurial action (Bird & Jelinek, 1989) at some point in the future, which can be imminent, indeterminate, or never reached (Thompson, 2009).”
How University Entrepreneurship Support Affects College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Empirical Analysis from China (2021, background): “In comparison, categorical measures are often too simple to reflect the differences between personal EI [90], and its reliability and validity are usually unsatisfactory.”
Role of entrepreneurial education in shaping entrepreneurial intention among university students: Testing the hypotheses using mediation and moderation approach (2021, background): “Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial selfefficacy and entrepreneurial intention Thompson (2009) defined entrepreneurial intention as an individual’s behavioral intentions toward starting his/her own business or showing an inclination to become an…”
Demographic factors, family background and prior self-employment on entrepreneurial intention - Vietnamese business students are different: why? (2018, background): “Entrepreneurial intentions can generally be defined as a conscious awareness and conviction by an individual that set up a new business venture and plans to do so in the future (Bird, 1988; Thompson, 2009).”
How do resilience and self-efficacy relate to entrepreneurial intentions in countries with varying degrees of fragility? A six-country study (2020, background): “Entrepreneurial intent is a cognitive state: a selfacknowledged decision indicating the aim to set up and own a business venture (Thompson, 2009); it is the beginning of the new business creation process (Meoli et al.”
Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intent: A Meta–Analytic Test and Integration of Competing Models (2012, neutral): “At the measurement level, researchers have used different measures to operationalize EI and its determinants (Shook et al., 2003; Thompson, 2009).”
Factors affecting entrepreneurial intention levels: a role for education (2011, background): “The latter, in turn, could be defined as the self-acknowledged conviction by a person that they intend to set up a new business venture and consciously plan to do so at some point in the future (Thompson 2009).”
Entrepreneurial intentions of Colombian business students: planned behaviour, leadership skills and social capital (2017, methodology): “This scale was developed by Thompson (2009) to assess personal attitudes towards entrepreneurship and comprises ten items answered on a six-point Likert scale ranging from “very untrue” to “very true”.”
Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of Prior Learning Experiences and Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Competencies* (2018, background): “Entrepreneurial intention has been defined as “a self-acknowledged conviction by a person who intends to set up a new business venture and consciously plans to do so at some point in the future” (Thompson 2009, p. 676).”
Shaping the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business Students in Croatia (2016, methodology): “Recently, Thompson (2009) suggested that entrepreneurial intent has been defined in a variety of ways: from broad dispositions or interests, to relatively advanced specifications of actions that are being taken and connected to entrepreneurial behavior.”
Graduate entrepreneurship in the developing world: intentions, education and development (2011, background): “to do so in the future (Bird, 1988; Thompson, 2009).”
The Mind in the Middle: Taking Stock of Affect and Cognition Research in Entrepreneurship (2015, neutral): “Page 15 of 35 Thompson, 2009; Zhao, Seibert & Hills, 2005), studies of entrepreneurs’ attributions (e.g., Gartner, Shaver & Liao, 2008; Gatewood, Shaver & Gartner, 1995), and studies of the nature and influence of entrepreneurs’ mental models, schemas and other rules or scripts (e.g., Hill &…”