Entrepreneurial intention and university: A necessary relationship in regions with high level of unemployment

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Intangible Capital Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI:10.3926/ic.1732

Juan Diego Borrero-Sánchez, Encarna Borrero-Domínguez

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Purpose: Although university entrepreneurship education as a predictor of entrepreneurial intention (EI) has been verified in the academic literature, few studies have analysed its influence in regions with low entrepreneurial activity. This research provides a new point of view by contrasting students' perceptions with what entrepreneurs consider most relevant. We propose an integrative and multi-perspective framework based on expectancy theory and the theory of planned behaviour, which includes the moderating effect of gender and family imprinting. Design/methodology: A valid sample of 108 business students from the University of Huelva (Spain) served as the basis of the study, whose data were analysed using consistent partial least squares (PLSc) to validate the scales and subsequently test the hypotheses. In addition, 54 valid questionnaires from local entrepreneurs were used for the comparative analysis between entrepreneurs and students. Findings: Our findings showed that the elements associated with university support have a significant, albeit negative, impact on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs. In terms of moderating variables, no significant differences were found by gender, but significant differences were found in the group with entrepreneurial parents. In relation to the determinants of entrepreneurial success, it was found that the students' conceptions of entrepreneurship were closer to those of the entrepreneurs in Huelva than to those of the successful entrepreneurs. Originality/value: This paper contributes to the academic debate on whether universities in general, and business schools in particular, should promote entrepreneurship as the core of education. We believe that these results, despite the specific and limited scope of the study, may be of great interest for university staff in regions with high levels of structural unemployment and low rates of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) to incorporate into their academic programmes.

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创业意向与大学:高失业率地区的必然关系

目的:虽然大学创业教育作为创业意向(EI)的预测因子已被学术文献证实，但很少有研究分析其在创业活动较低地区的影响。这项研究通过将学生的看法与企业家认为最相关的观点进行对比，提供了一个新的观点。基于期望理论和计划行为理论，我们提出了一个综合的、多视角的框架，其中包括性别和家庭烙印的调节作用。设计/方法:来自西班牙韦尔瓦大学(University of Huelva)的108名商科学生的有效样本作为研究的基础，使用一致偏最小二乘(PLSc)对其数据进行分析，以验证量表并随后检验假设。另外，利用54份来自当地企业家的有效问卷对企业家和学生进行对比分析。研究结果:我们的研究结果表明，与大学支持相关的因素对学生成为企业家的意愿有显著的(尽管是负面的)影响。在调节变量方面，性别差异不显著，但在父母为企业家的群体中存在显著差异。关于创业成功的决定因素，我们发现学生的创业理念更接近韦尔瓦的企业家，而不是成功的企业家。原创性/价值:这篇论文有助于学术辩论，即大学，特别是商学院，是否应该将创业精神作为教育的核心。我们认为，尽管研究的范围具体而有限，但这些结果可能会引起结构性失业率高、总体早期创业活动(TEA)率低的地区的大学工作人员的极大兴趣，并将其纳入其学术课程。

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Intangible Capital MANAGEMENT-

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1.50

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16.70%

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33 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Intangible Capital is to publish theoretical and empirical articles that contribute to contrast, extend and build theories that contribute to advance our understanding of phenomena related with management, and the management of intangibles, in organizations, from the perspectives of strategic management, human resource management, psychology, education, IT, supply chain management and accounting. The scientific research in management is grounded on theories developed from perspectives taken from a diversity of social sciences. Intangible Capital is open to publish articles that, from sociology, psychology, economics and industrial organization contribute to the scientific development of management and organizational science. Intangible Capital publishes scholar articles that contribute to contrast existing theories, or to build new theoretical approaches. The contributions can adopt confirmatory (quantitative) or explanatory (mainly qualitative) methodological approaches. Theoretical essays that enhance the building or extension of theoretical approaches are also welcome. Intangible Capital selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. Intangible Capital publishes three regular issues per year following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Intangible Capital defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. Intangible Capital publishes articles in English, Spanish and Catalan.