The role of inspiring role models in enhancing entrepreneurial intention

By W. Nowiński, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud. Journal of business research, 2019

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Abstract Although current research highlights the importance of prior exposure to entrepreneurial role models in the decision to start and pursue entrepreneurial careers, the mechanism through which role models strengthen entrepreneurial intentions has not been fully understood. Against this background, the current paper investigates the influence of role models, entrepreneurial attitudes and entrepreneurial self-efficacies using a sample of 423 University students in Poland. Through a novel fuzzy-set analysis method, three distinct combinations of the variables under study are found to be most effective for strengthening entrepreneurial intention among university students. By implication, these findings task entrepreneurship educators to concurrently foster the three dimensions in the process of nurturing entrepreneurial careers within their student body.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention: the role of social support and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2020, background): “Like these niche areas, student entrepreneurship is also a vital sub-group of entrepreneurship (Neneh 2019; Nowiński and Haddoud 2019) with unique features thatmight differ from the above-mentioned context, thus emphasizing the need to avoid assuming generalizability.”
• The impact of role models on entrepreneurial intentions and behavior: a review of the literature (2020, background): “2007; Nowiński and Haddoud 2019) by highlighting that the integration of role models in entrepreneurial edu‑ cation programs could foster entrepreneurial intentions and behavior (Block et  al.”