Undergraduates' Motivations for Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of Individualistic Values and Ethnicity

Autor/in	Looi, Kim Hoe
Titel	Undergraduates' Motivations for Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of Individualistic Values and Ethnicity
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 32 (2019) 5, S.465-483 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Looi, Kim Hoe)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2019.1640866
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Ethnicity; Intention; Entrepreneurship; Values; Structural Equation Models; Student Motivation; Correlation; Futures (of Society); Teaching Methods; Public Policy; Foreign Countries; Creativity; Innovation; Risk; Self Employment; Social Status; Economic Factors; Self Determination; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Ethnizität; Unternehmungsgeist; Wertbegriff; Schulische Motivation; Korrelation; Future; Society; Zukunft; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Öffentliche Ordnung; Ausland; Kreativität; Risiko; Self-employment; Selbstbestimmte Arbeit; Selbstständiger; Sozialer Status; Ökonomischer Faktor; Selbstbestimmung
Abstract	Research on new venture creation is often criticised for its deficits of theoretical sophistication and methodological rigour. This paper develops a framework by combining the values theory and the intention theory and validates it by conducting a rigorous structural equation modelling analysis based on responses obtained from 355 Malaysian entrepreneurship undergraduates. The individualistic values of openness to change as the salient motivational factor of entrepreneurship undergraduates' entrepreneurial intention over and above the demographic control variables suggested by extant body of literature contributes to a cumulative knowledge about motivations for entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, in the context of Malaysia, ethnicity does not moderate the relationship from openness to change to entrepreneurial intention. A clearer understanding of the salient dimension of individualistic values on entrepreneurship undergraduates' entrepreneurial intentions allows various entrepreneurship stakeholders to distinguish potential future entrepreneurs prior to their emergence. This valuable insight has the potential to inform substantive entrepreneurship knowledge and practice, entrepreneurship education and public policy to promote entrepreneurship among undergraduates at the pre-nascent stage of entrepreneurship. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01