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Behaviours and entrepreneurial intention: Empirical findings about secondary students

verfasst von: Arminda M. Finisterra do Paço, João Matos Ferreira, Mário Raposo, Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues, Anabela Dinis

Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship | Ausgabe 1/2011

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Abstract

This paper aims to identify some factors that may be explaining differences among secondary students in start-up intentions. For that, the study develops an entrepreneurial intention model sustained by the use of Azjen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TBP). Using a sample of students aged between 14 and 15 years old, a questionnaire based on the Liñán and Chen’s Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire was administrated. The purpose is to test a model of entrepreneurial intention using structural equations. The findings point that TPB is an appropriate tool to model the development of entrepreneurial intention through pedagogical processes and learning contexts. The education and training should centre itself much more in changing personal attitudes than in knowledge. Moreover, it is desirable that an entrepreneurship educational programme could contribute to the development of competences related to entrepreneurship, social and civic skills, and cultural awareness.

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This educational experience will be based on an extensive network of “mini-companies” exchanging information, catalogues and products. It will include all stages to the creation, development and dissemination of a cooperative inside the school, where the students will have the opportunity to interact with another national or foreign school. In this particular case, the Portuguese students had to interchange ideas and commercialise their products with a Spanish school. So, this methodology will be based on a practical experience where students will have the opportunity to display a wide array of social, personal and business skills

Structural coefficient non-significant, but total effect of 0.264

Structural coefficient non-significant, but total effect of 0.185

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Titel: Behaviours and entrepreneurial intention: Empirical findings about secondary students
verfasst von: Arminda M. Finisterra do Paço
João Matos Ferreira
Mário Raposo
Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues
Anabela Dinis
Publikationsdatum: 01.03.2011
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship / Ausgabe 1/2011
Print ISSN: 1570-7385
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7349
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0071-9