Developing intrapreneurial self-efficacy through internships? Investigating agency and structure factors

Purpose This paper seeks to identify how intrapreneurial self-efficacy (ISE) grows in a group of graduate students during their internship. We investigate which agency and structure factors shape experience stabilize or help grow ISE this evolves the course Design/methodology/approach conducted interviews with 49 last year master large Belgian university seven-month focused on those interns low starter better understand aid hinder development. Findings Our results show that who did not growth were less aware own factors, lacked supportive colleagues experienced misfit supervisors. Students so mostly because an initial experimentation phase, was structured by supervisor. created positive spiral where they started feeling increasingly able act intrapreneurially. Originality/value With study, we contribute extant literature two main ways. First, use employability lens study genesis ISE. As such, are amongst first education can nurture intrapreneurship particularly important for this. Second, take qualitative process approach, rather than static quantitative focus most entrepreneurial studies. gain knowledge drivers at steps