Determining the entrepreneurial intention among businessmen of Samut Songkhram Province of Thailand

Abstract

The phenomenon of entrepreneurial orientation, self-efficacy and organizational innovation has central importance in business performance, growth and organizational success in highly competitive business environment. The current research effort intended to determine the entrepreneurial intention, influenced by entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy with mediating role of organizational innovation. The results of the study reported that entrepreneurial orientation significantly influence the organizational innovation, the entrepreneurial self-efficacy significantly influence the organizational innovation, however the insignificant relationship was reported between entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intention, and insignificant between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention, interestingly and as argued by the study the organizational innovation fully mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. The future studies can be conducted to assess the other entrepreneurial perspective such as entrepreneurial passion in diverse business environment.