Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Postgraduate Management Students in India: The Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach

Abstract

This study aimed to scrutinise entrepreneurial intention among the postgraduate management students in India. In this research activity, the theory of planned behaviour questionnaire with 21 items was adopted. Data were collected through Google Forms questionnaire from 310 postgraduate management students of 8 Central universities in northeastern region of India. Cronbach’s alpha reliability test, correlation, regression and analysis of variance were used to analyse the collected data. As a result of analyses, the independent variables, namely attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control, had a positive relationship with entrepreneurial intention of the respondents. The study concluded that the respondents had significant positive entrepreneurial intention. It was also found that only 47% of entrepreneurial intention could be measured by the three independent variables of theory of planned behaviour, and 53% were the other factors remained behind that could not be identified by these variables.

Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention Among Female Students of Odisha

“…The impact of entrepreneurial attitude, perceived behaviour control and subjective norms on entrepreneurial intentions was studied. The entrepreneurial intention was explained by the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (Ashari et al, 2021; Bian et al, 2021; Boubker et al, 2022; Imm Song et al, 2021; Lv et al, 2021; Singh & Mpanme, 2023). The SEM results showed a positive direct relationship between the former variables on entrepreneurial intention.…”