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Disentangling the effect of personal abilities and socio-demographic variables on entrepreneurial intentions: implications for entrepreneurship pedagogy

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Since the start of twenty-first century, in the face of rapid globalization, a dynamic marketplace, the emergence of new technologies, innovation, and new business models, there has been an increasing need for young university graduates to be entrepreneurial, creative, and self-confident. This study is underpinned by “personal abilities-intention based framework” by employing the integrated role of personal abilities (creativity and self-confidence) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and addresses how these personal abilities can be included within effective pedagogical course design with specific consideration of a developing country (Pakistan). It further presents the multigroup differences on entrepreneurial intention (EIs) among university students based on different subgroups such as gender, entrepreneurship education (EE), faculty discipline, and university affiliation. A sample of 935 university students was gathered through a quantitative survey from three provinces in Pakistan. The results were analyzed by employing the structural equation model (SEM) with a partial least square (PLS) method. The findings of this framework reveal significant direct and indirect role of personal abilities in understanding EIs and also confirmed the mediated role of three proximal attitudinal dimensions of the TPB. Additionally, multigroup analysis (MGA) result shows differences in personal abilities and EIs across male and female students and students from public and private universities. Practitioners in Pakistan can benefit from the results of this framework by designing effective policies at institutional and regional level which foster effective EE.

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Abbreviations

EI:

Entrepreneurial intentions

ATE:

Attitude towards entrepreneurship

SN:

Subjective norms

PBC:

Perceived behavioral control

EE:

Entrepreneurship education

MGA:

Multigroup analysis

TPB:

Theory of planned behavior

FCRE:

Family creativity

PCRE:

Personal creativity

UCRE:

University creativity

VIF:

Variance inflation factor

CRE:

Creativity

SC:

Self-confidence

LOC:

Lower order constructs

LVS:

Latent variable scores

CR:

Composite reliability

PLS-SEM:

Partial least square-structural equation model

HTMT:

Heterotrait-monotrait

AVE:

Average variance extracted

TEA:

Total entrepreneurial activity

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  1. Division of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

    Hina Munir

  2. School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Miao Wang, Umar Farooq Sahibzada & Cai Jianfeng

  3. Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Vehari Campus, Vehari, Pakistan

    Sidra Ramzan

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HM designed study model under the supervision of CJ. HM and SR jointly worked in data collection. HM and WM jointly worked on data analysis, findings and discussions of the study. HM and UFS have written manuscript and CJ approved and assisted in all write-ups. SR helped in all revisions of the manuscript. All authors confirmed and approved the manuscript.

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Munir, H., Wang, M., Ramzan, S. et al. Disentangling the effect of personal abilities and socio-demographic variables on entrepreneurial intentions: implications for entrepreneurship pedagogy. J Glob Entrepr Res 11, 53–69 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40497-021-00269-y

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