Determining factors of business students’ entrepreneurial intention: a study from the perspective of the theory of planned behavior
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8069.2022.e82652Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Attitude, Behavioral Control, Theory of Planned BehaviorAbstract
The study investigated entrepreneurial intentions of business students in Brazilian federal universities. A questionnaire was applied to undergraduate students of administration, accounting, and economics resulting in 423 valid answers, analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results show that attitude and perceived behavioral control positively influence students’ entrepreneurial intention, whereas the subjective norm did not influence entrepreneurial intention. From the subdivision of the sample into two groups (first semesters vs. last semesters), it was found that the subjective norm positively influenced entrepreneurial intention for students in the first semesters of the undergraduate program, while this relationship is not significant for students in the last semesters. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of business students’ entrepreneurial intention, and suggest improvement to entrepreneurial education.
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