Do entrepreneurship education and environment promote students’ entrepreneurial intention? the role of entrepreneurial attitude

Abstract

Entrepreneurial intention plays a central role in stimulating the growth of entrepreneurs. The purpose of this investigation is to explore the relationship between several forecasted variables that can drive to students' entrepreneurial intention, consisting of entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial attitude, family education, and environment. We applied a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional survey model to capture the digestion of how entrepreneurship education, family education, environment, and entrepreneurial attitude can explain the entrepreneurial intention of vocational students. This research used a convenience sample of vocational students in Malang of Indonesia and was analyzed undergoing Structural Equation Modelling Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS). This work confirms that students' environment can explain the intention and students' attitudes toward entrepreneurship. However, this study failed in explaining the role of entrepreneurship education and family education informing intention instead of stimulation students' entrepreneurial attitude. This study's surprising finding can be an initial opportunity to elaborate an appropriate model of entrepreneurship education for vocational schools.

The Impact of Enterprise Management Elements on College Students’ Entrepreneurial Behavior by Complex Adaptive System Theory

“…Besides, the intervention also indirectly improved academic and professional interest through entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Kusumojanto et al (2021) adopted a quantitative method with a cross-sectional survey model to understand how entrepreneurship education, family education, environment, and entrepreneurial attitude explain vocational students’ entrepreneurial intention. The scholars took vocational students in Malang, Indonesia as a sample for analysis by using the model structure and iterative theory of the structural equation modeling.…”

The university students enterprises development: Lesson from Indonesia

“…Jena (2020) added that entrepreneurial intention is proxied by the primary factors, including individual characteristics and the environment, while Pauceanu et al (2019) revealed that entrepreneurial confidence impacts students' entrepreneurial intention. The recent studies in the Indonesian context believe that the low level of intention of entrepreneurs can be predicted by cultural and entrepreneurial attitude (Wardana et al, 2021), mindset and knowledge (Karyaningsih et al, 2020), entrepreneurial environment (Kusumojanto et al, 2021).…”

“…Meanwhile, Patricia and Silangen (2016) focused on the nexus between entrepreneurial education and the intention of being entrepreneurs. Lastly, Indarti (2004); Kusumojanto et al (2021) mentioned that entrepreneurial intention among Indonesia is determined by self-efficacy, while other factors, such as locus of control and demographic do not influence university students' intention towards entrepreneurship.…”

“…Entrepreneurship can be promoted in both formal and informal ways. Some scholars believe that entrepreneurship education is a motor in promoting intentions from the formal settings (Kusumojanto et al, 2021;Wardana et al, 2021). Entrepreneurship education is helpful to improve their cognition, continuously adjust their thoughts and actions to make their entrepreneurship more directional and coherent (Ferreira et al, 2017;Fiore et al, 2019).…”

“…Entrepreneurial intention is defined as the self-belief of individual to provide new venture creation or enhances the value-added of the current business (Vuorio et al, 2018). Therefore, the questions on what or how to enhance entrepreneurial intention as well as preparing for business have raised attention among scholar and policymakers in various countries (Jena, 2020;Kusumojanto et al, 2021;Martins & Perez, 2020). Based on the viewpoints of social cognitive theory, individuals tend to pursue their own targets only when they believe their abilities and actions can achieve the expected results (Bandura, 2018).…”