Economic development of community by entrepreneurship: an investigation of the entrepreneurial intent and the institutional support to the local community in Al-Kharj region

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is twofold, to investigate the entrepreneurial intent of the university students and to chalk out with the factors (educational) to be considered for institutional support by the university under study. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) questionnaire was adopted and administered along with a separate sixteen items sheet containng the items pertaining to the institutional suppot mechanisms. Overall, 370 responses were collected from both male & female students. The Data was analysed by applying correlations, linear and hierarchical regression and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The results of the study reaffirm the theory of planned behaviour in Saudi context with a significant variance of 43.2 percent in explaining students' entrepreneurial intent. However, in the present case it is found that both attitude and perceived behavioral control are the significant predictors of entrepreneurial intent. Moreover, the subjective norm did not significantly predict the entrepreneurial intent. The findings also suggest a four steps generic model of institutional educational support for entrepreneurial nurturement to the local community.

Higher education as a factor of socio-economic performance and development

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Leadership fostering via teaching business case studies: opportunities and limitations

“…Naushad 2018; Bogdanović et al 2018). This increasing attention to students are understandable; the context of aging societies, complexity of environment and increasing importance of sustainable entrepreneurship shifts the emphasis on development of new generation of leaders , which were able to set correct goals, and implement them efficiently in vide variety of situations and equipped with enormous flows of information including the big data on the job markets of the future (Strielkowski and Rausser 2013;Koudelková and Svobodová 2014;Kalyugina et al 2015;Čábelková et al 2015;Strielkowski et al 2016;Zielińska 2016;Durglishvili 2017;Orlova et al 2018;Plenkina et al 2018;Ragulina et al 2018;Naushad et al 2018;Białowąs 2018;Shvetsova et al 2018;Strielkowski 2018;Mikhaylov 2018;Kubeš andRančák 2018, Tvaronavičienė 2018).…”

Income distribution peculiarities in differently developed selected European countries versus Qatar

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