A study on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions among Saudi students

Mohammad Naushad ()
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Mohammad Naushad: Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2018, vol. 5, issue 3, 600-617

Abstract: The present study has developed and tested a model based on Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with addition of some psychological variables to figure out the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions of Saudi undergraduate business students. A sample of 550 students were taken. Responses were collected by a self administered questionaire and analysed by using a univariate statistics and Partial Least Square (PLS) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The study has emerged with behavioral and personality antecedents (Attitude, Subjective Norm, Internal locus of control, need for achievement and propensity to take risk) of entrepreneurial intent among Saudi students. The results underpin the idea that personality factors along with the behavioral factors strengthen the predictibility of intentions to be involved in an entrepreneurial behavior.

Keywords: entrepreneurial intentions; Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB); Partial Least Square (PLS); Structural Equation Modeling (SEM); Saudi students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 D91 L20 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2018.5.3(14)

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