Abstract (EN):
This study aims to measure and understand the psychological effects of entrepreneurial intentions among university students from two countries (Portugal and Spain). Following a review of the literature, there is a lack of studies incorporating an integrative model that deploys self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity and proactive personality as psychological effects on entrepreneurial intentions. Here, we seek to meet this gap through proposing and developing an integrative psychological model about the formation of entrepreneurial intentions, including all these variables as the main preceding factors to entrepreneurial initiatives and their influence on entrepreneurial intentions. Taking a sample of 293 university students from both countries, we apply multigroup analysis to empirically test the influence these hold over the preferences expressed in terms of becoming an entrepreneur. Our results reveal differences between these two countries regarding entrepreneurial intentions. In terms of the motivations present for launching a business, the higher these are, then the greater the preference for the option to work for third parties. In addition, and in terms of the perceived ease of launching a company variable, the higher this rises, the lower the level of preference for working for third party entities. Furthermore, the greater the level of perception in terms of the social value of entrepreneurship, the greater the preference in favour of becoming an entrepreneur.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
No. of pages:
14