The Theory of Planned Behaviour as Predictor of Entrepreneurial Intent Amongst Final-Year University Students

Abstract

The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was tested as a predictor of entrepreneurial intent amongst final-year commerce students at two universities in the Western Cape (n = 247). The theoretical sufficiency of the theory was examined by considering four additional factors that are believed to influence entrepreneurial intention (i.e. personality traits, situational factors, prior exposure to entrepreneurship, and demographics). The results of the multivariate data analysis indicate that the TPB significantly explains 27% of the variance in students' entrepreneurial intentions. Of all the other purported predictors of entrepreneurial intent examined in this study, only prior exposure to entrepreneurship was found to significantly add to the predictive power of TPB in explaining entrepreneurship intention. Personality traits, demographic factors and situational factors did not add significantly to the variance explained by TPB. The findings therefore suggest that TPB is a valuable tool for predicting entrepreneurial intent.

What are the Factors that Determine Startup Intentions among Korean Youth?

“…First, by area of residence, graduates residing in the Seoul area were found to have greater propensity for startup intentions compared to those residing in all other regions except the Gyeongbuk and Gyeongnam provinces. As mentioned in previous studies, which state that diverse opportunities and education may influence startup intentions, this finding may be the result of the fact that Seoul offers a relatively wider range of opportunities to experience [8] [9]. Second, we found that parents" income level and level of education affected startup intentions.…”

Russian University Students Intentions Towards Social Entrepreneurship

“…Some examples of the implication of this theory are students' entrepreneurial intention in Turkey [3,20] also conducted a comparative study used this theory, [21] conducted another study in Africa. On the other hand, the list of examples of social entrepreneurial research on students include [22,23] in Egypt, and [24] in India.…”

“…To check the addition of the value to another variable hierarchical regression was done as used by [21] for checking their proposed hypothesis for the research on students' entrepreneurial intentions. Hierarchical regression allows researchers to check variables based on the theory for the proposed model [33].…”

“…Some of them used the predictors to prove the theory of (TPB) to be a suitable tool for measuring entrepreneurship [21] tested this on students in Africa and got significant results. In our study, we found that Russian students have a positive attitude towards social entrepreneurship; perceived behavioral control were also found significant the most significant factor was subjective norm.…”

Validating a theory of planned behavior questionnaire to measure entrepreneurial intentions

“…The TPB integrates two lines of research on entrepreneurial intentions: research on the relationships between attitudes and entrepreneurial intention (Douglas & Shepherd, 2002), and research on the connections between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention (Jung, Ehrlich, DeNoble & Baik, 2001). The TPB has been used successfully in the past to describe entrepreneurial intentions of students in the U.S. (Autio, et al, 2001;Krueger, et al, 2000), The Netherlands (van Gelderen, et al, 2008), Norway (Kolvereid, 1996), Russia (Tkachev & Kolvereid, 1999), Finland, Sweden (Autio, et al, 2001), Germany (Jacob & Richter, 2005), Spain and Taiwan (Liñán & Chen, 2009;Moriano, 2005), and South Africa (Gird & Bagraim, 2008).…”