Entrepreneurial intention: antecedents to entrepreneurial behavior in the U.S.A. and Turkey

By Nurdan Ozaralli, Nancy K. Rivenburgh. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 2016

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Research confirms that intentions play an important role in the decision to start a new firm. But what factors influence intention? The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents to entrepreneurial behaviour with particular attention to social (experience and education), societal (economic and political climate), and personality factors. This study compares and contrasts U.S. and Turkish students based on surveys of 589 junior and senior students at one American and one Turkish university. The findings indicate that although they hold a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, both U.S. and Turkish students show a low level of entrepreneurial intention. Confirming prior work, the findings also indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship among personality attributes of optimism, innovativeness, risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial intention. In a new line of inquiry, experiential activities known to promote creative thinking—exposure to other cultures, new experiences and art events—were found to contribute to perceived innovativeness. Both U.S. and Turkish students expressed a need for more training and education on entrepreneurship to start a new business. As U.S. students perceived a high level of risk associated with entrepreneurship, Turkish students evaluated the economic and political conditions of home country quite unfavourably to start own business.

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

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Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021, background): “Understanding and analyzing entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) is vital for deeper knowledge of the entrepreneurial process (Ozaralli and Rivenburgh, 2016).”
Inspiring future entrepreneurs: The effect of experiential learning on the entrepreneurial intention at higher education (2021, background): “ISSN: 2456-7620 https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.62.26 192 Residual 14.252 458 .091 Total 115.462 459 a. Dependent Variable: Entrepreneurial intention b. Predictors: (Constant), Self-efficacy Table (14) shows that the F value for floatationas an independent variable =17.522, indicating that there i”
Impact of Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business and Engineering Students (2019, background): “Entrepreneurial activities have an increasingly important roles in a country’s growth and economic development by enhancing innovation and technological progress, creating employment and promoting competition [6].”
Entrepreneurship education, curriculum and lecturer-competency as antecedents of student entrepreneurial intention (2019, background): “Ozaralli and Rivenburgh (2016) argue that it is preferable in a survey research, for participation to be voluntary and anonymous.”