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13 Citations
4,858 Views
19 Pages

8 June 2023

In implementing an innovation-driven development strategy, it is important to promote the sustainable development capacity of the new generation. Entrepreneurial learning can enhance college students’ skills and entrepreneurial competence in fa...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,840 Views
14 Pages

Although many studies have shown that entrepreneurial intention can be explained according to a theory of planned behavior, some scholars have provided interesting insights into the role of job self-identity perception—in particularly the ones...

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  • Open Access
106 Citations
11,048 Views
17 Pages

9 August 2019

This paper examines the impact of entrepreneurial education on intention to undertake entrepreneurial activity in the future. The study is based on a sample of 208 engineering students. Specifically, we explore the contingent effect of social norms o...

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  • Open Access
373 Views
29 Pages

6 January 2026

Building on multiple theoretical views, this paper aimed to investigate how traits and their specific mechanisms transfer into realized entrepreneurial behaviors. Thus, this paper seeks to address various apparent gaps through an integrative theoreti...

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  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,651 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2021

Passion is fundamental to starting a business because it stimulates motivation, improves intellectual activity, and provides meaning for daily work. This research investigates the role of entrepreneurial passion as a prelude to entrepreneurial intent...

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  • Open Access
1,040 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2025

Based on Social Cognitive Theory and Positive Psychology, this study addresses a research gap by examining internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy as a mediating mechanism between psychological capital and internet entrepreneurial intention in the dig...

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  • Open Access
471 Views
40 Pages

When Intentions Stall: Exploring the Quasi-Longitudinal Divide Between Entrepreneurial Intention and Action

  • Panagiota Xanthopoulou,
  • Alexandros Sahinidis,
  • Evangelos E. Vassiliou and
  • Androniki Kavoura

28 December 2025

The purpose of the study is to investigate the gap between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial action among business administration students with the aim of understanding why many who develop entrepreneurial intentions do not ultimately tak...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,284 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2023

Green entrepreneurship has an extensive role in solving environmental issues and contributes significantly to friendly environmental practices. In this study, we examined the effect of green entrepreneurial intention on green entrepreneurial behavior...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,745 Views
19 Pages

International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Internationalize

  • Mitja Ruzzier,
  • Evan J. Douglas,
  • Maja Konečnik Ruzzier and
  • Jana Hojnik

14 July 2020

This paper presents a conceptual model of international entrepreneurial intention (IEI) through the lens of planned behavior and expectancy-valence theories. Extending the entrepreneurial intentions literature, where attitude to sustainability has st...

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  • Open Access
90 Citations
20,677 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2020

Facing the challenging employment situation and the changing labor market, developing student entrepreneurial intention has attracted significant policy consideration in China. This study describes the background of entrepreneurship education in Chin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,607 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2025

Entrepreneurship serves as a vital engine of economic development, yet the mechanisms translating entrepreneurial intention into behavior have gradually emerged. This study employs bibliometric analysis of 61 SSCI-indexed articles (2014–2024) u...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,818 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2019

Although entrepreneurship is considered one of the most powerful drivers of national economies around the world, there is little consensus about what informal factors foster entrepreneurial intention. In accordance with recent literature, entrepreneu...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,049 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2022

Gender equality contributes to economic growth and social progress by promoting women’s social and economic participation. The national gender equality level can affect women’s education and opportunities for economic participation. In th...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,285 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2019

Previous research indicates an unclear relationship between personal initiative (PI) and entrepreneurial intention. Drawing upon existing literature, this study proposes that the two forms of PI (i.e., task- and relationship-oriented PI) influence en...

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  • Open Access
115 Citations
15,105 Views
13 Pages

Entrepreneurial Intention: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and University Support

  • Temoor Anjum,
  • Muhammad Farrukh,
  • Petra Heidler and
  • Julián Andres Díaz Tautiva

To study the impact of perceived creativity disposition on entrepreneurial attitude and intentions, based on the theory of planned behavior, a model of the relationship between perceived creativity disposition and entrepreneurial intentions and attit...

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  • Open Access
81 Citations
16,888 Views
23 Pages

17 September 2017

This study examined the relationships between Big Six personality and entrepreneurial intention, inclusive of the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the Chinese context. Survey data from 280 college students reveal that Emotional Stab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,437 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2022

Within the emerging domain of entrepreneurial leadership research, gender issues have been largely ignored. This study aims to examine the nexus between entrepreneurial leader identity, entrepreneurial passion, and growth intention. This is done with...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
15,979 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2023

Based on planned behavior theory (TPB), this study aims to explore the direct or indirect impacts of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions through entrepreneurial self-efficacy and explore the moderating role of psychological capit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
11,299 Views
18 Pages

The Effect of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Academics’ Entrepreneurial Intention

  • Davide Antonioli,
  • Francesco Nicolli,
  • Laura Ramaciotti and
  • Ugo Rizzo

3 November 2016

This work investigates entrepreneurial intentions among academic scientists. Drawing from the literature on entrepreneurial behavior, it contributes to delineate the differences in motivations that are correlated with entrepreneurial intention to tho...

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  • Open Access
477 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2025

Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this is the first study that integrates Entrepreneurial Policy (EPL) and Entrepreneurial Network Relations (ENR) to examine the direct and indirect effects on entrepreneurial intention (INT) in Thailand....

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,864 Views
10 Pages

Exploring the Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Students in Italy

  • Luca Ferri,
  • Gianluca Ginesti,
  • Rosanna Spanò and
  • Annamaria Zampella

The aim of this paper is to investigate the entrepreneurial intention of Italian female students according to the Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). In particular, we analysed the women’s intention to become entrepreneurs because...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,350 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2021

Subsequent entrepreneurial intention is a good predictor of serial entrepreneurial endeavors which facilitate the sustainability of economic growth. Previous research has investigated the influence of economic outcomes on continuous engagement in ent...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,139 Views
16 Pages

In one of the first studies to examine how positive affect, negative affect, gender, and gender roles interact with entrepreneurial intention, we conducted an online survey of 849 adults from the western, midwestern, and southern regions of the Unite...

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  • Open Access
2,723 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2024

This study aims to examine innovation using an entrepreneurial event model by exploring the effects of failure acceptance, entrepreneurial orientation, and social safety nets on entrepreneurial intention. A survey was conducted with employees in Sout...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,056 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2022

Entrepreneurship has been viewed as an opportunity for economic development and changing economic scenario in global markets. Women are viewed as a reservoir of entrepreneurial talents, so they can be growth engines in novel markets. Previous studies...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,531 Views
14 Pages

Entrepreneurial Intention: A Gender Study in Business and Economics Students from Chile

  • Nicolás Contreras-Barraza,
  • Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia,
  • Guido Salazar-Sepulveda and
  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz

22 April 2021

The study of entrepreneurial intention sheds new light on the complex dynamics of entrepreneurial behavior. This research contributes to the academic debate by examining the gap in studies on entrepreneurial intention in Latin America, considering th...

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60 Citations
6,559 Views
25 Pages

Global challenges posed by climate change and environmental deterioration are increasingly driving entrepreneurship with sustainable entrepreneurial intention as a key driver in predicting entrepreneurial activities. Together with experience, the env...

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6 Citations
3,156 Views
22 Pages

Many people have entrepreneurial dreams in mind, yet existing research has neglected to focus on this phenomenon. This paper introduces the concept of entrepreneurial dreams, constructs a model of the relationship between entrepreneurial dreams and t...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,100 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2023

The aim of this paper is to show the crucial role that universities play in preparing future green entrepreneurs, as well as the importance of social capital in ensuring the necessary resources and emotional support to develop a green entrepreneurial...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,533 Views
21 Pages

2 January 2025

Today, the world is facing two major issues: unemployment and environmental degradation. To promote employment, universities and higher educational institutions all over the world are boosting entrepreneurial intentions among students to overcome the...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,143 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Key Competencies Determining Entrepreneurial Intention in Peruvian Secondary Students

  • Mabel Ysabel Otiniano León,
  • Marco Agustín Arbulú Ballesteros,
  • Emma Verónica Ramos Farroñán,
  • Marilú Trinidad Flores Lezama and
  • Jaritza Marisol Diaz Silva

21 October 2024

In the current global context, characterized by increasing competitiveness and dynamism, entrepreneurship has emerged as a fundamental driver of economic development and job creation. This study aims to compare the levels of entrepreneurial competenc...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,208 Views
18 Pages

This study addressed the underlying mechanisms through which future time perspective (FTP) motivates entrepreneurial career intention. By focusing on entrepreneurship as an important career decision for individual sustainable career development, we a...

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8 Citations
5,529 Views
22 Pages

Psychological and Biographical Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention: Does the Learning Environment Act as a Mediator?

  • Mateo M. Córcoles-Muñoz,
  • Gloria Parra-Requena,
  • María José Ruiz-Ortega,
  • Pedro M. García-Villaverde and
  • Francisco J. Ramírez-Fernández

The aim of this research is to study the mediating role of the learning process in explaining the relationships between certain psychological and biographical characteristics and entrepreneurial intention. The findings suggest that the effect of psyc...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,836 Views
25 Pages

Shifting Mindsets: Changes in Entrepreneurial Intention Among University Students

  • Panagiota Xanthopoulou,
  • Alexandros Sahinidis,
  • Androniki Kavoura and
  • Ioannis Antoniadis

22 October 2024

Despite the growing interest in entrepreneurship education and its impact on entrepreneurial intention, there is limited research on why students’ entrepreneurial intentions change over time. It has been observed that university students’...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,139 Views
21 Pages

Entrepreneurial Intention of Chinese Students Studying at Universities in the Community of Madrid

  • Susana Lin,
  • Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero,
  • José Luis Montes Botella and
  • Cristina Lin-Lian

Entrepreneurial intention is one of the most representative indicators of entrepreneurship action. The Chinese community has an increasing presence in the community of Madrid both in the educational field and in the business field. This paper studies...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,276 Views
15 Pages

Entrepreneurial Intention of Students (Managers in Training): Personal and Family Characteristics

  • Aleksandra S. Dragin,
  • Maja B. Mijatov,
  • Olja Munitlak Ivanović,
  • Ana Jovičić Vuković,
  • Anđelija Ivkov Džigurski,
  • Kristina Košić,
  • Milena Nedeljković Knežević,
  • Slavica Tomić,
  • Uglješa Stankov and
  • Aleksandra Stoiljković
  • + 3 authors

16 June 2022

To increase the entrepreneurial intention, it is necessary to understand the main drivers that are driving students, as carriers of future economic development, towards starting a personal business venture. With regards to that, the main aim of this...

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26 Citations
4,822 Views
12 Pages

26 January 2023

Background: The KSA government has envisioned a national transformation plan via Vision 2030. The purpose of this plan is liberalization which provides an opportunity for the private sector to increase its share in the healthcare system. Evaluating t...

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1,145 Views
27 Pages

25 July 2025

Entrepreneurial intention research requires further examination of systemic relationships between constructs of comprehensive models that will more closely approximate the ontological realities of individuals. This research jointly examines relations...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,684 Views
26 Pages

Testing Entrepreneurial Intention Determinants in Post-Transition Economies

  • Ana Iolanda Vodă,
  • Alina-Petronela Haller,
  • Alexandru Anichiti and
  • Gina Ionela Butnaru

11 December 2020

The paper aims to analyze the entrepreneurial intention determinants in nine post-transition economies of European member states. To achieve our stated goal, the study focused on the influence of fear of failure and networking on individuals’ i...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,876 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2021

With the global development of the regional mobility of education, Hungary has gradually become a priority country for overseas students to pursue tertiary education. Meanwhile, the experience of studying abroad can prepare international students to...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,263 Views
31 Pages

20 July 2021

Entrepreneurship is the basis of the production network, and thus a key to territorial development. In this line, entrepreneurial intention has been pointed out as an indicator of latent entrepreneurship. In this article, the entrepreneurial intentio...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,515 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2024

This study examined the effect of munificent environment factors on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention and risk-taking propensity by means of the theory of planned behaviour. The study also assessed the effect of perceived behavioural contr...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,663 Views
15 Pages

28 March 2024

Entrepreneurship, once a choice, has now evolved into a critical lifeline for the youth in Lebanon amid a prolonged and extensive economic crisis, now entering its fourth year. This crisis has triggered a shift in the mindset of Lebanese youth, drive...

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105 Citations
14,379 Views
23 Pages

Start-ups are launched every day, and most of them will fail at the same pace. Worldwide unemployment has become a major concern due to the geometric increase in the population. However, job opportunities are not created at the same pace as the overa...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,191 Views
16 Pages

4 March 2023

Social enterprises are gaining great importance, since they can efficiently solve social problems and help reduce unemployment. Thus, it is important to discover how social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) can be enhanced. In this paper, a model of th...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,092 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2024

This study analyzes the entrepreneurial intention of Romanian engineering students. We had a sample of 700 students (mean age = 23.14; SD = 2.92; 378 males and 322 females) who belonged to three technical universities and completed an online survey b...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,632 Views
16 Pages

6 February 2022

While there have been some attempts at investigating and theorizing social entrepreneurial action at the base of the economic pyramid, our understanding of the processes contributing to the formation of social entrepreneurial intention in contexts of...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,240 Views
16 Pages

Opening the “Black Box” of University Entrepreneurial Intention in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Sofia Gomes,
  • Marlene Sousa,
  • Tânia Santos,
  • José Oliveira,
  • Márcio Oliveira and
  • João M. Lopes

This research aims to study the determinants of entrepreneurial intention in academia and compare the outcomes from two different moments, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a quantitative methodology was used, whereby a quest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,666 Views
20 Pages

Exploring Entrepreneurial Intention and Student Engagement of Youth Living in Poverty

  • Rasha Mahmoud Khodor,
  • Oliver Valero Coppin and
  • Isabel Alvarez Canovas

25 October 2024

Graduating from secondary education for adolescents living in poverty is challenging. Strong entrepreneurial intention and student engagement among youth living in poverty often play a protective role in reducing school dropout and fostering school c...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,735 Views
20 Pages

The Impact of Gender on Entrepreneurial Intention in a Peripheral Region of Europe: A Multigroup Analysis

  • Sofia Gomes,
  • João Morais Lopes,
  • José Oliveira,
  • Márcio Oliveira,
  • Tânia Santos and
  • Marlene Sousa

29 October 2021

The last two decades were characterized by an increase in attention on entrepreneurship. An emerging trend in the literature is associated with the different contributions that genders may have regarding entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention...

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