Bringing creativity back to entrepreneurship education: Creative self-efficacy, creative process engagement, and entrepreneurial intentions

Maha Tantawy, Kendall Herbert, Jeffrey J. McNally, Thomas Mengel, Panagiotis Piperopoulos and David Foord

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021, vol. 15, issue C

Abstract: In this paper we explore creativity as an antecedent of entrepreneurial intentions. Drawing from social cognitive theory, we explain and empirically illustrate how creative self-efficacy encourages the development of entrepreneurial intentions. We also examine the mediating roles of attitudes and creative process engagement in the creative self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions relationship. Based on a pre-post- survey design, in seven entrepreneurship courses taught in three Canadian universities, our findings support the role of creativity as an antecedent to entrepreneurship, but also hint towards some boundaries/limitations on attitudes as the primary focus of entrepreneurship education programs. We draw a number of implications for the theory and practice of entrepreneurship education.

Keywords: Social cognitive theory; Entrepreneurial intentions; Attitudes; Creative self-efficacy; Creative process engagement; Entrepreneurship education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00239

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