Exploring the Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Students in Italy

Ferri, Luca; Ginesti, Gianluca; Spanó, Rosanna; Zampella, Annamaria

doi:10.3390/joitmc4030027

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“…Social recognition is very important for female students ( Ferri et al, 2018 ), which means that the opinions of parents, relatives, friends, and important others might be influential in the decision-making process of becoming an entrepreneur ( Minniti, 2009 ; Ferri et al, 2018 ). Today, there is a consensus that the participation of women in entrepreneurship is a major factor in development ( Lepeley, 2019 ); therefore, there is a critical element to promote inclusive development ( Gallup International Labor Organization, 2017 ) and to increase happiness ( Helliwell et al, 2019 ) and diversity ( Hunt et al, 2018 ), with the active participation of women, particularly based on implicit impact of the multiplier effect.…”

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The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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Universities increasingly play an important role in entrepreneurship, which has contributed to gender equality in the business world. The aim of this study is to establish a causal model of entrepreneurial intentions and explore it by gender, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior, and how these are mediated by the individuals’ resilience and psychological well-being. The previous work experience was considered as one of the control variables, in order to analyze whether this influence the entrepreneurial intention. With a convenience sample of 644 Portuguese students, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. For a better understanding, multivariate analyses were performed and each one was individually reported, and for appropriate comparisons by gender, the t-student test was used. The comparison of means, between genders, showed that there are differences only between perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and entrepreneurial intention, with women scoring the highest values, and psychological well-being, with men scoring the higher. A serial mediation path was performed, and psychological resilience was found to mediate a significant effect between perceived behavioral control and intention in females, but not in males. It also mediates a significant effect between attitude and intention in females, but not in males. These results show that attitude is a determining factor for females to become entrepreneurs. Finally, after discussing the results, theoretical and practical contributions are analyzed, with regard to the field of entrepreneurship in Portugal, and alternatives are pointed out for a more entrepreneurial future, reinforcing the role of higher education institutions.

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“…These factors will influence the entrepreneurial intention of individuals. There are many researches that have been performed regarding entrepreneurial intention (Esfandiar et al, 2019;Sidratulmunthah & Malik, 2018;Ferri et al, 2018). Some are focused based on the theory of planned behavior, in which many studied the relationship between attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavior control on entrepreneurial intention (Fayolle & Liñán, 2014;Ajzen, 1991;Lu & Wang, 2018).…”

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The Effect of Entrepreneurial Learning towards Entrepreneurial Intention of Indonesian Women

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Entrepreneurship has been the center of a worldwide phenomenon as it has contributed a lot in the economy. The researcher is trying to acknowledge the interest of Indonesian women to build their own businesses. The aim of this research is to see how entrepreneurial learning could influence Indonesian women to grow interest in doing entrepreneurial activity, with the help of three mediations: attitude toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. The research will use quantitative method and SmartPLS 3.0 to support the statistical data. The respondents are Indonesian women ranging around 17 years old and above who have had the experienced entrepreneurship learning in educational institutions. To show a more accurate result, purposive sampling will be used where it is very objective and selective to help the researcher in providing the justification to make generalizations from the investigated sample from a total of 149 respondents from various regions in Indonesia. The findings on this research are entrepreneurial learning is influencing the entrepreneurial intention of Indonesian women with the help of two mediations, which are attitude toward entrepreneurship and perceived behavioral control. Subjective norms is found has no significant influence on growing the entrepreneurial intention of Indonesian women.

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“…Thus, according to the considerations previously presented by Gupta et al [23], Wilson et al [30], Rueda et al [33], Krueger et al [43], Norton et al [54], Fayolle et al [58], Sahinidis et al [68], Ferri et al [70], and Díaz-García et al [77], it is possible for us to formulate the following hypothesis:…”

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“…In turn, what is pointed out by the authors Krueger et al [41], Ajzen [11], Wilson et al [30], Rueda et al [33], Gupta et al [23], Norton et al [54], Sahinidis et al [68], Ferri et al [70] and Pincay et al [79] make it possible to formulate the hypothesis:…”

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“…Therefore, studying gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions and behavior could help researchers and policymakers to foresee reasons for that kind of lower entrepreneurship activities [67]. There may be discrepancies in different types of academic programs, whether business or not [68][69][70]. However, most of the research about entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurship presents a bias because it is based on cases in developed western countries, such as the US and the UK [71].…”

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Entrepreneurial Intention: A Gender Study in Business and Economics Students from Chile

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The study of entrepreneurial intention sheds new light on the complex dynamics of entrepreneurial behavior. This research contributes to the academic debate by examining the gap in studies on entrepreneurial intention in Latin America, considering the importance of gender differences and their effects on entrepreneurial intention. Thus, this study is a contribution to research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to social equity, in the areas of quality education (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), and inequalities reduction (SDG 10). To study gender entrepreneurial intention phenomena differences, researchers have taken refuge in the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and focused their analysis on a group of economics and business students from a coastal campus of a Chilean University. In a two-step methodological process, the authors verified the applicability of the entrepreneurial intention questionnaire (CIE) with the selected sample and then calculated entrepreneurial intention using the CIE instrument. Contrary to general literature results, the study shows that there are no significant gender differences in entrepreneurial intention levels. Furthermore, there is neither evidence for gender differences in any of the three entrepreneurial intention factors, i.e., (a) attitudes, (b) subjective norms, and (c) control of perceived behavior.

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Exploring the Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Students in Italy

Cited by 45 publications

References 68 publications

The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

The Effect of Entrepreneurial Learning towards Entrepreneurial Intention of Indonesian Women

Entrepreneurial Intention: A Gender Study in Business and Economics Students from Chile

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