Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention of Business Students in Bangladesh
By Md. Reaz Uddin, Tarun Kanti Bose. 2012
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Working on entrepreneurship bears special significance for country like Bangladesh where density of population is very high. It is really a great challenge for the country to accommodate such a large population. Developing the determinants on entrepreneurial intention can take the country a step ahead for the improvement of entrepreneurial culture. Nurturing such culture will flourish entrepreneurship development which can create scope for accommodating substantial number of people. In this backdrop, this study has tested a causal model in context of business students of Bangladesh to identify what determines their intentions to be an entrepreneur. For this purpose data were collected from the business students studying at Bachelor and Master Level in public and private universities. From the previous literature, variables like risk taking, locus of control, need for achievement, autonomy, challenges, security of job, environment for staring business and entrepreneurial education offered by Universities have been tested using multiple regression model. The model results show tendency of taking risk, need for achievement, education and environment for starting business, job security are statistically significant in determining the intention of students where except job security, variables are found positively related.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation
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Citations in the corpus
- Relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial goal intentions: psychological traits as mediators (2020, background): “…studies suggested that students’ exposure to entrepreneurship education reinforced their need for achievement (Hansemark, 1998, 2003) and that a strong need for achievement strongly predicted entrepreneurial intention (Dinis et al., 2013; Ferreira, Raposo, & Rodrigues, 2012; Uddin & Bose, 2012).”
- An Analysis of the Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students: A Romanian Case Study (2016, background): “Other researchers focused on the direct connection between personality traits and intentions [19], while investigating the potential mediating effect of education [20].”