Integrating and extending competing intention models to understand the entrepreneurial intention of senior university students

Riyad Eid, Amgad Badewi, Hassan Selim, Hatem El-Gohary

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)234-254
    Number of pages21
    JournalEducation and Training
    Volume61
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 5 2019

    Keywords

    • Personality
    • UAE

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
    • Education
    • Life-span and Life-course Studies

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