Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze what the influence junior enterprise environment on entrepreneurial profile and intention university students difference in behavior between who participated did not participate enterprises. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach based multivariate data analysis using confirmatory factor structural equation modeling was applied a samp...

The goal of this study is to propose a conceptual model for assessing the impact entrepreneurship supportive university ecosystems (ESUE) on student’s related behavioral characteristics: entrepreneurial intention (EI) and characteristics (EC). empirical research used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) sample 1,012 observations. Findings indicate that an ESUE has positi...

Over the past years the percentage of female entrepreneurs has increased, yet it is still far below of that for males. Although various attempts have been made to explain differences in mens' and women's entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions, the extent to which those differences are due to self-report biases has not been yet considered. The present study utilized Differential Item Functioni...

The study investigated the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of 829 college students in China by questionnaire. The psychological characteristics include five aspects: entrepreneurial capacity, entrepreneurial belief, entrepreneurial consciousness, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial determination. In the five factors, the entrepreneurial consciousness of college stu...

This study examined the relationships between Big Six personality and entrepreneurial intention, inclusive of the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the Chinese context. Survey data from 280 college students reveal that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Interpersonal Relationship were positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Agreeableness and...

Entrepreneurial activity di ers substantially across countries. While cultural di erences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics su ers from various problems. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that cultural factors in uence entrepreneurial behavior by looking at di erences in self-employment rates between immigrant groups within the same m...

The concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has become essential in research into the degree of entrepreneurial behavior at firm level. It is relevant to managers to be able to assess explicitly the level of entrepreneurship of a firm. Incubators, venture capitalists, corporate venturing units, angel investors, investment banks and governments need solid measures that go beyond expert intui...

Entrepreneurial ecosystem is recently in increasing focus of scholars. There are several members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem shifting towards an entrepreneurial society. This paper explores how various regional members inside of the ecosystem are helping in spreading the entrepreneurial thoughts and shifting individuals and the general opinion from managed economy towards an entrepreneuria...