Presentation of a structural model to explain entrepreneurial intention of agricultural students based on cultural values

In recent years, we have faced a large number of graduates in agricultural sciences who cannot enter the labor market and the number of unemployed in this field is increasing every year. One of the solutions to this problem is to increase students and graduates' orientation to entrepreneurship. Therefore, it is very important to recognize the factors that influence the increase such an inclination among individuals. One of these factors is the dominant culture in the society. In this study, we investigated the relationship between cultural values and entrepreneurial intention in agricultural students at Kerman province's public universities. Research method was quantitative.   In terms of access to facts and data processing, it was a descriptive-correlation research. The statistical population of this study was composed of agricultural students in universities of Kerman province (N = 4069). Based on Morgan table, the sample size was estimated 351 individuals. To increase the validity of research, 405 students were selected based on simple random sampling method using proportional assignment. In order to verify the reliability of the instrument, the composite reliability (CR) and Cronbach's alpha (α) were used, and the results confirmed the reliability of the instrument. The Department of Agricultural Extention and Education faculty members at Tehran University confirmed the content validity of the instrument.  Average Variance Extracted (AVE) was used to assess the construct validity. Structural Equation Modeling, and SPSS and Lisrel softwares were used for data analysis. Results showed that avoidance of uncertainty, long-term tendency and individualism had significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention. Overall, they explained 22% of entrepreneurship intention's variance.