Starting a New Business? Assessing University Students’ Intentions towards Digital Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

The impact of entrepreneurial education on the propensity of business students to support new ventures: A moderated mediation model

“…This confirms the literature cited above that describes the need for entrepreneurial education that provides students with the knowledge to explore funding sources such as venture capital (Fatoki, 2014;Block et al, 2018). It also verifies that entrepreneurial education relating to financial knowledge enhances the abilities of the students to handle financial challenges and hence improves their financial selfefficacy (Mathisen and Bronnick, 2009;Du et al, 2020;Alferaih, 2022). It is further verified that financial self-efficacy positively impacts intention toward venture capital (McGee et al, 2009).…”

The antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour in the creation of platform economy initiatives: An analysis based on the decomposed theory of planned behaviour

“…(2020) found that attitude, perceived behavioural control and subjective norm are the main predictors of intention to participate in PE initiatives, while economic benefit and perceived risk affect attitude. More recently, the study by Alferaih (2022) on digital entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia found that propensity to act, subjective norm, perceived feasibility, perceived desirability, digital education, attitude and innovativeness influence entrepreneurial intentions, while self-efficacy and perceived behavioural control influence entrepreneurial behaviour. Given the digital nature of the process and the diversity of behavioural backgrounds, we are firmly convinced that these approaches offer the best way to gather all the information on entrepreneurial behaviour in the PE domain (in our case, focussing on the platform creators).…”

“…Undoubtedly, a field in which the TPB has been most widely used is the study of entrepreneurship ( Alferaih, 2022 ; Lortie and Castogiovanni, 2015 ), where the model has been extended by adding a range of antecedents to the attitudes, subjective norm and PBC constructs. Its uses is largely due to the extensions to the TPB that allow the incorporation (based on previous findings) of antecedents that go beyond purely technological and economic interests and fall into the domain of individual and collective wellbeing.…”

“…Confidence is also referred to in the SE literature as a key factor in overcoming uncertainty and mitigating risk ( Ter Huurne et al., 2017 ). Confidence in developing digital entrepreneurial behaviour is clearly an issue given special attention, particularly in relation to gender and the emancipation of women ( Luo and Chan, 2021 ; Shukla et al., 2021 ), opportunities for young people ( Alferaih, 2022 ; Cueto et al., 2022 ), and intrinsic difficulties in certain cultures and regions ( Abubakre et al., 2021 ; Alferaih, 2022 ). Based on these assumptions, we incorporate a new hypothesis:…”

Measuring factors influencing entrepreneurial intention across gender in India: evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Database

“…opportunity perception; knowing other entrepreneurs; confidence in one's abilities, were strongly linked to levels of entrepreneurship. Several studies have analyzed that the perceptions of the adult population on economic opportunities for starting a business in the area where they live (Liñ an et al, 2011;Tsai et al, 2016;Alferaih, 2022), considering entrepreneurship as a career choice (Micozzi and Lucarelli, 2016;Osmani et al, 2022) and perception on ease of starting a business (Nassif et al, 2016;Lin et al, 2017;Ali et al, 2021;, have significant effect on intention for entrepreneurship: H2. A perception of the existence of economic opportunities results in a positive influence on entrepreneurial intention.…”