 Founder or employee? The effect of social factors and the role of entrepreneurship educationStavroula Laspita, Ioannis Sitaridis, Fotis Kitsios and Katerina Sarri Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 155, issue PA Abstract: Career intentions of students are extremely important and they are affected by the particular social context, such as cultures, communities, universities in which they are embedded. The exposure to entrepreneurship education may also have moderating effects on the different social antecedents of career intentions. We draw data from a large sample and use logistic regression and marginal effects to highlight the importance of the socio-cultural environment to the intention to become a founder instead of an employee in the near and distant future. We show that the effect of entrepreneurship education is not the same in every social context. While entrepreneurship research up to now has mainly focused on individual level determinants of career choices, we highlight the importance of the social environment. Policy makers should consider the characteristics of the different levels of the social environment before designing policies to reinforce the intention to become a founder. Keywords: Near and distant- future career intentions; Power distance; Social norms; University environment; Entrepreneurship education (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:155:y:2023:i:pa:s0148296322008876 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113422 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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