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The impact of gender and social capital on entrepreneurial intentions in university students: Evidence from Turkey

Journal of Economics Bibliography

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Title The impact of gender and social capital on entrepreneurial intentions in university students: Evidence from Turkey
 
Creator KARADAĞ, Hande; MEF University
 
Subject Entrepreneurial intention; Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB); Gender; Social capital; Entrepreneurship Education.
L26; M13; I23; I25.
 
Description Abstract. Understanding the antecedents of the intention to become an entrepreneur is crucial in the development of effective entrepreneurship education and training programs. Despite the growing number of conceptual and empirical studies, the insights on the psychological factors that drive or discourage the engagement into entrepreneurial acts among university students are still limited. The current study aims to address this gap in the literature, by exploring the direct relationships between the impact of personal attitude (PA), perceived behavioral control (PBC) and subjective norms (SN) constructs of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) on entrepreneurial intention (EI). The study further investigates the existence of a potential difference with respect to gender and social capital on EI.  For data collection, the entrepreneurial intention scale of Linan and Chen (2009) was used and questionnaires collected from a sample of 113 university students were analyzed through multiple regression analyses. Findings indicate that the impact of SN on EIare negative whereas PA and PBC have strong and positive associations with the intention to become an entrepreneur. Furthermore, the results of the independent t-tests show do not indicate a meaningful difference with respect to gender and social capital and entrepreneurial intention, whereas differences between departments and taking or not taking an entrepreneurship course are found to be significantly associated with EI. For theory, these findings imply that both the scale of Linan and Chen (2009) and the model of TPB are useful in predicting entrepreneurial intention for this sample. For practice, the results highlight the important role of education in choosing entrepreneurship as a career at undergraduate level whereas gender difference or having an entrepreneur in the family or close third parties is not reported to affect this decision.Keywords. Entrepreneurial intention, Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), Gender, Social Capital, Entrepreneurship Education.JEL. L26, M13, I23, I25.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics Bibliography
 
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Date 2019-01-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/1815
10.1453/jeb.v5i4.1815
 
Source Journal of Economics Bibliography; Vol 5, No 4 (2018): December; 271-279
2149-2387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/1815/1815
http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/downloadSuppFile/1815/919
 
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