A critical comparison of factors affecting science and technology students’ entrepreneurial intention: a tale of two genders

Emotional Competence, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneurial Intention: A Study Based on China College Students’ Social Entrepreneurship Project

“…Therefore, identifying the factors that predict entrepreneurial intention has great practical significance. The following factors have been found to influence entrepreneurial intention: decision-making mechanisms ( Feola et al, 2017 ), entrepreneurial differences ( Fini and Toschi, 2016 ; Roy and Das, 2019 ), entrepreneurship education ( Xu et al, 2016 ; Nowiński et al, 2017 ; Teixeira and Forte, 2017 ; Wu et al, 2018 ), an entrepreneurial background, and environmental factors ( Altinay et al, 2012 ; Palmer et al, 2019 ). The cognitive approach to entrepreneurship posits that the subjective characteristics of entrepreneurs (e.g., cognitive characteristics) influence entrepreneurial intention ( Kirzner, 1978 , 1997 ).…”

Comparative Study of the Factors of Female Entrepreneurship in China and Pakistan

“…This can also improve the overall performance of business (Fairlie & Holleran, 2012). Study has empirically proved that AO is positively linked to FEI (Roy & Das, 2019).…”

“…The phenomenon of entrepreneurship and entrepreneur self-efficacy has been considerably gaining attention from the academic scholars since the past decade (Chan, Uy, Chernyshenko, Ho, & Sam, 2015;Obschonka, Hakkarainen, Lonka, & Salmela-Aro, 2017b). However, it is seen that even now a gender gap exist in the entrepreneurship as the number of women working as successful entrepreneurs, though, on the rise is still less as compared to men in this field (Al-Kwifi et al, 2020;Henry, Foss, & Ahl, 2016;Roy & Das, 2019) recommended that in order to address this gender gap, the contextual factors affecting the intention of females to start working as entrepreneurs need to be identified in detail. Since the studies on female entrepreneurship behavior are limited and sparse, hence research needs to be conducted on the females of the developing countries (Dvouletý, Gordievskaya, & Procházka, 2018;Hussain & Malik, 2018) testing the impact of social factors (Giménez & Calabrò, 2018), entrepreneur self-efficacy (Mustafa, Hernandez, Mahon, & Chee, 2016;Wang, Chang, Yao, & Liang, 2016), support and knowledge relating to entrepreneurship (Saeed, Yousafzai, Ya-ni-De-Soriano, & Muffatto, 2015) on the entrepreneurship intention.…”

“…One of the four items of this variable is "No discrimination procedures within banks to support female-run small businesses". For measuring entrepreneurial knowledge, scale was adopted from Dohse and Walter (2012) and Liñán, Rodríguez-Cohard, and Rueda-Cantuche (2011) and was used in recent study by Roy and Das (2019) was used. The scale had a total of 5 items and was higly reliable with a value of Cronbach's α of 0.74.…”

“…When the females are not equipped with accurate knowledge, then they can miss many business opportunities and not know how to handle them properly to avoid loss in business. Females with more knowledge of business and entrepreneurship are more confident (Roy & Das, 2019) and will be able to start and manage their business in a profitable way (Hechavarria, Bullough, Brush, & Edelman, 2019). Achievement Orientation is a personality trait that encourages the business women to work diligently in difficult and complex business situations and they will be able to fulfill their goals and targets while making un-due efforts, once they have determined their career choice.…”