Examining the effects of demographic, social and environmental factors on entrepreneurial intention

Management Matters Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1108/manm-12-2021-0006

Pushkar Dubey, K. Sahu

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PurposeCreating employment for all seems to be impossible in emerging nations as the unemployment rate is rising faster than the number of job openings available. Studies on the other hand show that creating jobs is simple if the right resources and opportunities are made available. The present study aims to examine the effects of various demographic social and environmental factors on the entrepreneurial intention of engineering undergraduates in Chhattisgarh state.Design/methodology/approachCorrelational research design was incorporated in the present study. The author applied stratified random sampling to collect samples of 1,000 engineering undergraduates enrolled in their third and fourth years in different technical colleges/universities in Chhattisgarh state. Structural equation modelling and confirmatory factor analysis were applied to analyse the data.FindingsThe results revealed that demographic, social and environmental factors greatly influenced engineering undergraduates’ entrepreneurial intention. However, age and occupation do not predict their self-employment intention.Originality/valueThe present research itself is a novel study, especially in Chhattisgarh state, where the area of examining the effects of demographic, social and environmental factors on entrepreneurial intention among technical undergraduates has been limitedly explored.

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考察人口、社会和环境因素对创业意向的影响

在新兴国家，为所有人创造就业机会似乎是不可能的，因为失业率的上升速度超过了职位空缺的数量。另一方面，研究表明，如果提供了合适的资源和机会，创造就业是很简单的。本研究旨在考察各种人口、社会和环境因素对恰蒂斯加尔邦工科大学生创业意愿的影响。设计/方法/方法本研究采用相关研究设计。作者采用分层随机抽样的方法收集了在恰蒂斯加尔邦不同技术学院/大学就读三年级和四年级的1000名工程本科生的样本。采用结构方程模型和验证性因子分析对数据进行分析。结果发现，人口、社会和环境因素对工科大学生创业意愿有显著影响。然而，年龄和职业并不能预测他们的自主创业意向。本研究本身就是一项新颖的研究，特别是在恰蒂斯加尔邦，研究人口、社会和环境因素对技术本科生创业意愿的影响的领域已经得到了有限的探索。

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