Integrating and Extending Competing Intention Models to Understand the Entrepreneurial Intention of Senior University Students

Autor/inn/en	Eid, Riyad; Badewi, Amgad; Selim, Hassan; El-Gohary, Hatem
Titel	Integrating and Extending Competing Intention Models to Understand the Entrepreneurial Intention of Senior University Students
Quelle	In: Education & Training, 61 (2019) 2, S.234-254 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Eid, Riyad)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-0912
DOI	10.1108/ET-02-2018-0030
Schlagwörter	College Seniors; Entrepreneurship; Intention; Models; Foreign Countries; Behavior Theories; Personality; Personal Autonomy; Creativity; Behavior Standards; Social Behavior; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Unternehmungsgeist; Analogiemodell; Ausland; Personalität; Individuelle Autonomie; Kreativität; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	Purpose: The growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, most of these theories focus on the relationship between entrepreneurs perceptions and their intention and ignore the cognitive and psychological characteristics that might configure their perceptions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to integrate the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with the entrepreneurial event model (EEM) and to extend the combined model to include the personality characteristics of an entrepreneur that might shape the perceptions and intentions. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a sample of 688 senior university students (Emirati nationals, 91.2 per cent and expatriates, 8.8 per cent) and employs positivist research with a quantitative approach, adopting a survey strategy through questionnaires and structural equation modelling. Findings: The results demonstrate the relevance and robustness of the suggested combined and extended model in the prediction of intention on the part of senior university students to become entrepreneurs (explained variance=73.3 per cent) based on survey data (2017; n = 688). Originality/value: The main contribution of this paper lies not only in the integration of the TPB and the EEM, but also in extending the two theories on which it is based through adding entrepreneurial personality characteristics and an explanation of the mechanism through which entrepreneurial perceptions and EI develop. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01