Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: Do Female Students Benefit?

Westhead, Paul; Solesvik, Marina

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2884375

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“…This may involve widening the availability of courses tailored at developing specific entrepreneurial needs. Westhead and Solesvik (2016) suggested that gender specific entrepreneurship courses may be advantageous in some cases.…”

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Predicting entrepreneurial intention across the university

Bell

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the relative importance of four key entrepreneurial characteristics identified in the literature (proactiveness, attitude to risk, innovativeness and self-efficacy) in predicting students’ entrepreneurial intention (EI) across a range of faculties offering different subjects at a UK higher education institution (HEI). This approach will help to identify whether there are variations across the faculties in the predictors of EI. This enables recommendations to be made with regard to the development of educational delivery and support to encourage and develop the specific predictors of EI within the different subject areas. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a 40-item questionnaire to obtain information on students’ demographics, entrepreneurial characteristics and EI, based on a five-point Likert-type scale. Principle component analysis, correlation analysis and multiple hierarchical regression analysis are used to analyse the data from 1,185 students to develop models which predict EI for each of the six faculties. Findings Individual models which predict EI are developed for each of the six faculties showing variations in the makeup of the predictors across faculties in the HEI. Attitude to risk was the strongest predictor in five of the six faculties and the second strongest predictor in the sixth. The differences, together with the implications, for educational approaches and pedagogy are considered. Originality/value This research breaks down the level of analysis of EI to the individual faculty level in order to investigate whether different entrepreneurial characteristics predict EI in different academic disciplines across a UK HEI. This enables entrepreneurship educational approaches to be considered at a faculty level rather than a one size fits all approach.

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2019

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“…Most of these mechanisms are likely to be present in educational programmes. In this respect, Westhead and Solesvik (2016) found that women and men benefit differently from entrepreneurship education. These differences could be explained by the initial personalvalue structure, and the value-change during education.…”

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The influence of collectivistic personal values on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions

Hueso

Jaén

Liñán

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International Small Business Journal

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This article analyses the specific role of collectivistic personal values as an antecedent of entrepreneurial intention. While previous studies have focused on individualistic values, the influence of collectivistic values has remained largely ignored. We study this influence on a sample of 413 university students from the United Kingdom and Spain. The results are consistent in both countries, suggesting that an emphasis on collectivistic personal values triggers an indirect, negative effect on entrepreneurial intentions through both personal attitude and perceived behavioural control. However, it also induces an indirect positive effect through subjective norms. The study indicates that not only individualistic values but the complete personal-value structure is influential in explaining the formation of entrepreneurial intentions.

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“…For example, Barba-Sánchez & Atienza-Sahuquillo (2018) made the study on the need for independence is the key factor in the entrepreneurial intent of future engineers and Kim & Park (2018) emphasized that entrepreneurship education could promote the entrepreneurial intention when they aimed to draw on Piaget's theory of assimilation and accommodation (absorptive capacity) as having mediating roles to examine the effect of motivational factors in entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention among engineering students. Westhead & Solesvik, (2015) believed that the positive correlation relationship between participation in entrepreneurship education and intensity of entrepreneurial intention is moderated by gender. Sun, Lo, Liang et al (2017) bridged specific education components and entrepreneurial intention, providing significant insight into how the key components positively influence the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of students.…”

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Psychological Perception-Based Analysis on the Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention

2020

RACP

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This paper explores the influence of entrepreneurship education on the intention to start a business (entrepreneurial intention) from the angles of desirability, feasibility and perceived risk. The perceived risk covers multiple dimensions: economic risk, social risk, time risk, health risk and personal risk. Firstly, a structural equation model was extended from Shapero and Sokol's model of entrepreneurial event, aiming to describe the influence from the perspective of psychological perception. Then, the established model was applied to explain a sample of 362 senior college students in China, all of whom have received entrepreneurship training. The results show that both desirability and feasibility mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. In addition, the multiple dimensions of the perceived risk differ in their influence on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: the social risk mediates the relationship, while the other dimensions have no significant impact on the relationship. The research findings help to understand the decision-making mechanism of entrepreneurs, facilitate the formulation of entrepreneurial policies, and promote the development of entrepreneurship education.

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Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: Do Female Students Benefit?

Cited by 96 publications

References 91 publications

Predicting entrepreneurial intention across the university

Predicting entrepreneurial intention across the university

The influence of collectivistic personal values on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions

Psychological Perception-Based Analysis on the Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention

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