A Partial Least-Square Mediation Analysis of the Contribution of Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship Education to Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

The present paper presents findings of entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 313 undergraduate students of the University of Oradea, Romania, from different non-economic fields of study (engineering, health, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, and arts), including students...

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Published in:Sustainability 2021-08, Vol.13 (16), p.8697
Main Authors: Dodescu, Anca-Otilia, Botezat, Elena-Aurelia, Constăngioară, Alexandru, Pop-Cohuţ, Ioana-Crina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
At risk students
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Business students
Career development planning
Careers
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Curricula
Disadvantaged groups
Economics
Education
Educational research
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship education
Labor market
Norms
Psychological aspects
Rural areas
School dropouts
Self employment
Self-efficacy (Psychology)
Social sciences
Startups
Students
Study and teaching
Sustainability
Undergraduate study
Young adults
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Summary:The present paper presents findings of entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 313 undergraduate students of the University of Oradea, Romania, from different non-economic fields of study (engineering, health, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, and arts), including students from rural areas and other disadvantaged groups enrolled in an entrepreneurship education project financed through European Social Fund. A complex mediation chain is set in place in a net of relationships linking the benefits of entrepreneurial education to entrepreneurship self-efficacy, entrepreneurship attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms in our estimation of entrepreneurial intentions. Using a multigroup analysis, we address the OECD inclusive entrepreneurship perspective of students ‘at-risk’ on the labor market and under-represented in entrepreneurship, identifying how the benefits of entrepreneurship education can be better capitalized by each category. The present paper advocates the necessity to extend entrepreneurship education outside the economics and business specializations.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13168697