Antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions among students in vocational training programmes

Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on individual entrepreneurial intention (IEI) by assessing the importance of entrepreneurship education to students in vocational training programmes and using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to analyse these students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The family background of the students and their exposure to entrepreneurship subject matter were included as antecedents of TPB components and IEI. Design/methodology/approach To test the research model, the primary data were collected with questionnaires distributed to students in their last year of vocational training programmes with and without entrepreneurship coursework, in a region of Northern Portugal. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings The results show that TPB dimensions substantially contribute to explaining students’ IEI. However, their family background makes only a minor contribution, and exposure to entrepreneurship education has no influence on IEI. Research limitations/implications Given these results, the authors propose a broader discussion is needed of the importance of introducing business classes into the curricula of vocational training programmes. Originality/value This research’s results show that IEI models need to assign greater importance to variables related to previous exposure to entrepreneurial experiences through direct family members. The findings contribute to a fuller understanding of IEI and the factors that precede the formation of this intention among students in training programmes.

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“…Beberapa pengukuran tentang efektivitas pendidikan kewirausahaan menggunakan EI dan komponen theory of planned behavior (TPB) sebagai tolok ukur keberhasilan pelaksanaan pendidikan kewirausahaan telah dilakukan (Galvão, et al, 2018;Marques, et al, 2012;Nowiński, et al, 2017). Beberapa penelitian lainnya mengkomparasikan siswa yang mengikuti pendidikan kewirausahaan dan tidak mengikuti kewirausahaan (Solesvik, et al, 2014;Solesvik, 2013;Westhead and Solesvik, 2015).…”

“…Temuan para peneliti yang telah dilakukan menunjukkan hasil yang tidak sama. Beberapa menemukan bahwa pendidikan kewirausahaan tidak mampu memberikan peningkatan dan pengaruh terhadap EI (Galvão, et al, 2018;Marques, et al, 2012;Nowiński, et al, 2017).…”

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“…The terms enterprise education and entrepreneurship education are often used to mean the same thing (Jones and Iredale, 2010), however the goal of both is to establish routes to improved rates of entrepreneurial behaviour amongst students and graduates (Galvão et al, 2018). There is also a move to address the bias in enterprise education towards business start-up leading to a more mainstream view of enterprise which sits out with entrepreneurship (Mwasalwiba, 2010) and encompasses entrepreneurial activity within corporate settings (Casson, 2010).…”

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“…The essence of entrepreneurship is the process of creating new jobs through the creation of new businesses (Galvão et al, 2018). Therefore, various ways are done to encourage the growth of new entrepreneurs.…”

“…One of the ways is the entrepreneurship education program (Nowiński et al, 2017). Development of entrepreneurship education is the best investment for the future (Galvão et al, 2018). The emergence of various entrepreneurship education programs is based on a strong belief that entrepreneurship is something that can be taught (Fretschner and Weber, 2013).…”