Role of Entrepreneurial Motivation towards the Entrepreneurial Intentions among Engineering Students: A Mediated Moderated Research Framework

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  • Kittisak Jermsittiparsert
  • Jutamat Sutduean
  • Chutipan Sutduean

Abstract

With the increasing unemployment around the globe, entrepreneurship has gained intense attention from the professional of different domains. In this regard academia has paid extensive attention to this. Having considered the importance of such issue the present study attempted to examine the impact of entrepreneurial motivation on the entrepreneurial intentions of the engineering students. In this regard data were collected from the engineering discipline students by using simple random sampling. Measurement model and structural equation modeling techniques have been used in data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that entrepreneurial motivations (need for success, independence, and economic motivations) significantly influence the entrepreneurial intentions of the engineering students. In addition to this study also reported that attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control found to be significant mediator between relationships of entrepreneurial motivations (attitude and perceived behavioral control) and entrepreneurial intentions. Whereas subjective norms were not found to be significant mediator between relationships of entrepreneurial motivations and entrepreneurial intentions.

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2020-01-20

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