Dynamics of Final Year Students’ Entrepreneurial Inclination: Does Understanding of Entrepreneurship Matter?

Gloria K. Q. Agyapong () and Kojo Kakra Twum ()
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Gloria K. Q. Agyapong: Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management
Kojo Kakra Twum: Presbyterian University

Chapter 2 in Small Business and Entrepreneurial Development in Africa, 2023, pp 19-51 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Literature provides mixed findings of students’ entrepreneurial inclination. The chapter assesses factors that drive entrepreneurial inclination of students in a public university in a developing country context. Drawing on the sociological and theory of planned behaviour, four hypotheses are formulated and tested to determine the influence of academic curriculum, geographical distance, peer association and parent views on the likelihood to be entrepreneurial. Using explanatory survey, 180 final year students participated in the survey. A quantitative approach was used in analysing the data—specifically means standard deviations and multiple regression analysis. The results reveal that all the predictors—academic curriculum, geographical distance, peer association and parent views—had significant moderate effect on entrepreneurial inclination.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial inclination; Academic curriculum; Geographical distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37675-7_2

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