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Management : Journal of Contemporary Management Issues, Vol. 20 No. 2, 2015.

Preliminary communication

Verifying the model of predicting entrepreneurial intention among students of business and non-business orientation

Zoran Sušanj orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-0261 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Ana Jakopec ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Irena Miljković Krečar orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-2167-4947 ; VERN' University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

This study aims to verify whether certain entrepreneurial characteristics, like entrepreneurial potential and entrepreneurial propensity, affect the level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and desirability of entrepreneurship, and further have direct and indirect effect on entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, this study seeks to compare the strength of the relationship between these variables among groups of students who receive some entrepreneurship education and students outside the business sphere. Data was collected from a sample of undergraduate students of business and non-business orientation and analyzed with multi-group analysis within SEM. Results of the multi-group analysis indicate that indeed, the strength of the relationship among tested variables is more pronounced when it comes to business students. That is, mediating effect of perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy and desirability of entrepreneurship in the relationship between entrepreneurial characteristics and intent, is significantly stronger for the business-oriented groups, in comparison to non-business orientation group. The amount of explained variance of all constructs (except entrepreneurial propensity) is also larger in business students in comparison to non-business students. Educational implications of obtained results are discussed.

Keywords

entrepreneurial potential and propensity; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; desirability of entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial intention; multi-group analysis

Hrčak ID:

150564

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/150564

Publication date:

21.12.2015.

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