Title
Entrepreneurship education, intention, and self efficacy: an examination of knowledge transfer within family businesses
Abstract
The problems in family business focus more on the issues of leadership and ownership transfer. Therefore, it is essential to carry out a specific survey on the process associated with intergenerational knowledge transfer between entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intentions for future next generation. This study examines and analyses the effect of entrepreneurship education in families on self-efficacy and to test its impact on entrepreneurial intentions on future generations. According to the study’s findings, entrepreneurship education has a major impact on entrepreneurial intentions self-efficacy. The resulting implication is that entrepreneurship education ought to be started and advanced in the family setting, with knowledge being transferred to the next generation by their predecessors. Further, it can foster awareness of the coming generations to amplify their abilities and interests. This is an explanatory research with a quantitative approach and a sample population, which consists of 1455 family businesses in the Makassar city, with a total sample of 150 running for at least two generations. The results show that entrepreneurship education has a significant effect on self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions. The implication of this finding shows that entrepreneurship education needs to be started and developed in the family environment, with the transfer of knowledge from the predecessor to the next generation. It also has the ability to foster awareness of future generations to increase their interests and abilities.
Keywords
entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship intention, self-efficacy, knowledge transfer
JEL classifications
A29 , I25 , L26 , M21
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/637
DOI
Pages
526-538
Funding
The research was supported by the Research Institution of Universitas Negeri Makassar and Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia.This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License