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Received: 2017-09-16  |  Accepted: 2018-01-18  |  Published: 2018-03-30

Title

A study on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions among Saudi students


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


JEL classifications

C30 , D91 , L20 , L26


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/170


DOI


HAL


Pages

600-617


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Naushad, Mohammad
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia https://psau.edu.sa
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

5


Number

3


Issue date

March 2018


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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