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When Economic Environment is Hostile: Entrepreneurial Intention in a Small Tourist Remote Economy

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Abstract

Tourism promotes job creation and businesses in the economies of many small tourist regions. Consequently, it is worth studying the relationship between this regions and entrepreneurship, whose chosen method of analysis is based on hierarchical OLS regression. This study explored the influences of small tourist remote economies (STRE) topographies, personal characteristics and academic support activities for the pursuit of entrepreneurship activities in explaining students’ intentions, this is the first attempt to provide an understanding of the Theory of Planned Behavior in the context of entrepreneurship of the small tourist remote. It offers a contribution to the literature in the field of entrepreneurship by analyzing a number of factors that reinforce, encourage or discourage students’ intentions to become entrepreneurs in a geographical setting characterized by macroeconomic policies informed by a neo-Keynesian approach. Moreover, this paper provides an understanding of the mechanism leading to the expression of entrepreneurial intentions by students living in one of the most adverse economic environments in the context of the European Union.

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Almeida, A., Correia, P. (2021). When Economic Environment is Hostile: Entrepreneurial Intention in a Small Tourist Remote Economy. In: Abreu, A., Liberato, D., González, E.A., Garcia Ojeda, J.C. (eds) Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems. ICOTTS 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 209. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4260-6_29

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