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Title
Entrepreneurship as a preferred career option: Modelling tourism students’ entrepreneurial intention
Author
, Imran Mahmud,
Email
imranmahmud@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd
Abstract

Abstract

Purpose

Building upon the theory of planned behaviour and the entrepreneurial event model, the purpose of this paper is to test the effects of the following covariates in predicting entrepreneurial intention among tourism students in Bangladesh, namely, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control (PBC), perceived desirability and perceived feasibility.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 137 private university students participated in the study by means of questionnaire. The hypotheses were tested using partial least squares (PLS) analysis.

Findings

Findings indicate that attitude and subjective norm significantly influence perceived desirability. It was also found that subjective norm and PBC positively influence perceived feasibility. Interestingly also, both perceived desirability and perceived feasibility predict entrepreneurial intention.

Originality/value

The study proves the robustness of the integration of the two intent models in explaining entrepreneurial intention in a developing country. The new PLS predict algorithm has been used to generate and evaluate predictions from the path model estimations.

Keywords
Bangladesh, PLS, Entrepreneurial Intention, Tourism Entrepreneurship
Journal or Conference Name
Education and Training
Publication Year
2019
Indexing
scopus