Entrepreneurial Potential and Higher Education System in India

Mukesh, Hasirumane Venkatesh; Rao, Abhishek; Pillai, K R

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“…A plethora of factors, such as disparity in the quality of basic education, lack of adequate entrepreneurial training for teachers, ineffective pedagogical methods, lack of SUP, insufficient mentoring and inaccessible resources, to name a few, act as impediments to provide quality entrepreneurial education to these students (Shankar, 2016). As noted by Mukesh et al (2018), a huge proportion of students in India with entrepreneurial potential and intent are graduating from HEIs without acquiring the essential entrepreneurial skills. Apart from courses on entrepreneurship, a curriculum with a focus on creativity may influence the students' entrepreneurial behavior by enhancing their innovative ability as creative potential may be thought of as a predictor of entrepreneurial behavior (Solomon et al, 2008).…”

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Academic, Family, and Peer Influence on Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students

2020

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The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research literature on entrepreneurial intention (EI) of engineering students in an emerging economy. Through the lens of Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB), we investigate the influence of academic curriculum, institutional support, family, and peer effects in fostering an intent to be self-employed among Indian engineering students. Data collected from 210 final-year engineering students were tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling method. The antecedents of the TPB, namely, attitude toward entrepreneurship (ATE), subjective norms (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC), demonstrated a favorable influence on EI. Whereas the regular academic curriculum seemed to have a negative influence on ATE, institutional support showed a positive effect. Both curriculum and academic support were found to have no significant impact on either PBC or SN. However, both family and peer influence revealed a strong positive relationship with all the antecedents of EI.

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Academic, Family, and Peer Influence on Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students

2020

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“…However, the vast majority of youths with latent entrepreneurial spark are not getting involved in entrepreneurial ventures (Mukesh et al, 2018).…”

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Attitude and Alertness in Personality Traits: A Pathway to Building Entrepreneurial Intentions Among University Students

Biswas

Verma

2021

The Journal of Entrepreneurship

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The entrepreneurial intentions of individuals play a phenomenal role in establishment of new ventures, which in turn facilitates economic development. The study aims to identify the various dimensions of personality traits along with several other precursors of entrepreneurial intentions and investigates impact of the identified factors on entrepreneurial intentions of top five university students in India. The data for research were collected through a structured questionnaire employing a 7-point Likert scale based on purposive sampling technique. The identified constructs considered to be determinants of entrepreneurial intentions were need for achievement, locus of control, risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, self-efficacy, proactiveness, perseverance, entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial attitude. The findings of the study reveal that ‘need for achievement’ was the most significant precursor of entrepreneurial intentions; whereas, ‘entrepreneurial alertness’ and ‘entrepreneurial attitude’ dimensions of personality traits were also found to have a positive correlation with entrepreneurial intentions of university students. Moreover, entrepreneurial alertness partially mediates the relationship between self-efficacy and proactiveness on the one hand and entrepreneurial intentions on the other.

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“…Research conversation on entrepreneurship development has focused its attention on the driving forces and contextual factors that facilitate the emergence of entrepreneurial intentions (hereafter, EI) and entrepreneurial potential (Ryan et al, 2011;Santos et al, 2013;Bagheri et al, 2013;Mukesh et al, 2018). Santos et al (2013) define entrepreneurial potential (hereafter, EP) as "a process of interaction between perceived desirability (including social norms and attitudes), perceived feasibility (that is, self-efficacy), and propensity to act" (p. 661).…”

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Entrepreneurial potential of students of MBA and engineering schools in the Indian context: roles of leadership and achievement motivation

Mukesh

Prabhu

Koodamara

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JARHE

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PurposeThe central purpose of this study is to investigate the relative effects of leadership styles, i.e. transactional leadership and transformational leadership, and achievement motivation on the entrepreneurial potential of MBA and engineering students. This study also examines whether the MBA and engineering students differ in terms of their entrepreneurial potential.Design/methodology/approachThis study has used a cross-sectional research design along with a quasi-experimental research method to investigate the study's objectives on a sample consisting of 952 engineering and business students. The study has also used the PLS-SEM approach to carry out the data analysis, and to evaluate the group differences among MBA and engineering students concerning the relationships investigated, i.e. leadership motivation-entrepreneurial potential, and achievement motivation-entrepreneurial potential.FindingsThis research has primarily made four findings. First, the study has found that there are statistically significant differences between students pursuing a business education, and those students who are seeking management education about their entrepreneurial potential. Second, this study demonstrates that leadership and achievement motivation are strongly associated with entrepreneurial potential. Third, this research shows that the achievement motivation-entrepreneurial potential is more substantial among engineering students than among business students. However, the leadership-entrepreneurial potential relationship is more influential among MBA students than among engineering students. Lastly, the effect size of leadership is small in comparison with the effect size of achievement motivation, which is substantially healthy.Originality/valueThis research has attempted to address the riddle of a leadership attribution error in the context of entrepreneurship. Accordingly, this study has demonstrated that the idea of leadership attribution error has empirical evidence in the context of entrepreneurship also. Further, this study has tried to address the “behavior-motive preeminence” dichotomy. The results of this research show that internal motivation is more reliable than external leadership behavior in cultivating the entrepreneurial potential of students.

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Entrepreneurial Potential and Higher Education System in India

Cited by 27 publications

References 51 publications

Academic, Family, and Peer Influence on Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students

Academic, Family, and Peer Influence on Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students

Attitude and Alertness in Personality Traits: A Pathway to Building Entrepreneurial Intentions Among University Students

Entrepreneurial potential of students of MBA and engineering schools in the Indian context: roles of leadership and achievement motivation

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