Entrepreneurial Intentions among Higher Education Students in Finland and Spain: Developing and Piloting a Survey Instrument

Elina Varamäki, Erno Tornikoski, Sanna Joensuu, Kari Ristimäki, Andreu Blesa and Maria Ripolles
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Elina Varamäki: Business School, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland
Erno Tornikoski: Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
Sanna Joensuu: Business School,Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland
Kari Ristimäki: Business School, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland
Andreu Blesa: Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Maria Ripolles: Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), 2013, vol. 5, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the results of a pilot study in which the new instrument was developed and tested to measure the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in multi-country context. The developed instrument was largely based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen (1991). In the pilot study, the authors were also paying attention to two issues, namely (i) whether the level of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, (ii) whether the relative importance of the three antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, and (iii) whether the background variables exercise similar effects on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in different countries. The empirical context of the pilot study is made of two higher education institutions (one in Finland, one in Spain) and concerns their first-year students at undergraduate programs. In the end of this paper, the authors will discuss the implications of the empirical observations of their pilot study.

Date: 2013
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