Entrepreneurial intention among University students in Malaysia: integrating self-determination theory and the theory of planned behavior

By Ibrahim Al-Jubari, Arif Hassan, F. Liñán. The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2018

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The present study endeavors to develop a deeper understanding of the motivational processes involved in intentional entrepreneurial behavior. For this purpose, it integrates the social cognitive approach of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the organismic theory of motivation of self-determination theory (SDT). More specifically, it tests the role of basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness as defined in SDT in shaping university students’ attitudes and intentions toward entrepreneurship. The sample of this study consisted of 438 (Males = 166, Females =272) 3rd and 4th year university students from four Malaysian Public Universities. The results of the study show that the model strongly explains about 71% of the variance in entrepreneurial intention. Basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness have a strong indirect impact on entrepreneurial intention via their attitudinal antecedents: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. This indicates a full-mediational model, where the attitudinal factors operated as transmitters of effects from the distal constructs of SDT on entrepreneurial intention. These findings confirm that both SDT and the TPB provide complementary explanations of the motivational processes of entrepreneurial behavior. The study contributes to the existing knowledge by providing a theory-based understanding of the role of motivations in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. It opens the way for future research to analyze how alternative motivations may affect new venture creation, survival and success.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention: Testing an Integrated Model of SDT and TPB (2019, background): “A recent evidence found a strong support for the integration of SDT and TPB (Al-Jubari et al., 2018).”
Entrepreneurship Education through Successful Entrepreneurial Models in Higher Education Institutions (2020, background): “Following Liñán and Chen [90] and Romero, Petrescu, and Balalia (Iosif) [92], graduates included in this study were asked about their level of intention using a series of statements related to entrepreneurial activity.”
Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students in China: Integrating the Perceived University Support and Theory of Planned Behavior (2021, methodology): “[20] Entrepreneurial Need satisfaction, need frustration, attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control Entrepreneurial intention”