The effects of demographic characteristics on entrepreneurial intention in the pre-venture stage of entrepreneurship
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, cilt.14, sa.3, ss.406-424, 2011 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2011
- Doi Numarası: 10.1504/ijesb.2011.042761
- Dergi Adı: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.406-424
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Demographic characteristics, Entrepreneurial intention, Entrepreneurship, Pre-venture stage of entrepreneurship
- Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Individuals' entrepreneurial intentions are the foundations of new-organisation creation. Using the demographic-characteristics approach of entrepreneurship as its basis, this study examines the effects of selected demographic characteristics on pre-venture entrepreneurial intentions. This study analysed the responses of 698 undergraduate university students to a questionnaire to test its hypotheses. Statistical analyses found significant and positive relationships between both being a male and having an entrepreneur-parent role-model and having entrepreneurial intentions for business-administration students, but the entrepreneur-parent role-model was the sole significant and positive predictor of engineering students' entrepreneurial intentions. Age was not a significant predictor of entrepreneurial intentions for undergraduate students. This study's findings do not support birth-order argument. Implications and future research directions are also discussed. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.