Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Pakistani Students
By Altaf Hussain. 2015
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Why an individual prefer to become an entrepreneur and what factor motivated his intentions for becoming an entrepreneur is considered important question in entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurial education is considered an important variable which effect on entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research results on entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention yielded mixed results. To investigate further this question from developing countries perspective, this paper looks at the role of entrepreneurial education in developing the entrepreneurial intentions for becoming entrepreneur. The sample for this study composed of final year business students from Pakistan. The result of this study supports the entrepreneurial intentions model based on the theory of planned behavior. The results further suggested significant influence of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intentions of the students. Moreover, this study results also showed that theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurship (know-what) and knowledge of social network development (know-who) component are vital for imparting entrepreneurial education.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- The Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention Mediated by Motivation and Attitude among Management Students, State University of Malang, Indonesia (2017, background): “There is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurship education (Hussain & Norashidah, 2015; Lorz, 2011; Hattab, 2015; Ibrahim et al., 2015), through students’ involvement in experiential and existential lifelong learning practices (Robinson et al., 2016), and…”
- Exploring the factors that mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intentions among undergraduate students in Ghana (2020, background): “According to Hussain (2015), the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention is limited and still undergoing empirical testing.”