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Cultural factors and entrepreneurial intention

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Purpose – Universities provide entrepreneurship-specific education (ESE) to equip students with the
skills required to pursue entrepreneurial careers in new firms and innovative private and public sector
organizations. Building upon insights from entrepreneurial event theory, cultural values theory and
human capital theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the linkage between perceived local
cultural environment, ESE investment and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention with regard to becoming an entrepreneur.
Design/methodology/approach – Survey information from 321 students from three universities in
the Ukraine was hand collected. Hierarchical multiple ordinary least squares regression analysis and slope analysis were used to test presented hypotheses.
Findings – Analysis revealed that students who cited a perceived desirability and perceived feasibility for entrepreneurship, initiative taking culture and participation in ESE reported significantly higher intensity of entrepreneurial intention. Conversely, students who cited the capability beliefs culture factor reported significantly lower intensity of intention. ESE interactions with perceived cultural factors as well as perceived desirability and perceived feasibility for entrepreneurship were not significantly associated with higher intensity of entrepreneurial intention. Research limitations/implications – This study was limited to three universities in the Ukraine and university students who followed business or engineering courses. The generalizability of the findings might be limited to this context. Additional quantitative and qualitative research is warranted to explore the external validity of presented findings with regard to other countries, universities and courses.
Practical implications – Practitioners in transition economies are seeking to increase the rate of new firms formation in order to encourage economic development and to reduce social and regional inequality, but they also want existing organizations to grow utilizing the skills and capabilities of talented graduates with transferable skills. This study has confirmed that it is unrealistic to assume that ESE alone can alleviate cultural barriers to an entrepreneurial intention. The authors detected that participation in ESE was associated with higher entrepreneurial intention, but failed to highlight the specific entrepreneurial skills and capabilities associated with a higher entrepreneurial intention. Originality/value – The authors extend the conceptual base by exploring novel hypotheses relating to the assumed direct role ESE plays in promoting a higher intensity of entrepreneurial intention in a transition context. Notably, the authors propose that ESE will moderate the relationships between
the cultural factors perceived by students and their reported intensity of entrepreneurial intention.
The authors suggest that ESE can raise awareness of positive cultural values that stimulate an entrepreneurial intention. In addition, the authors suggest that ESE can foster the accumulation and mobilization of skills, capabilities and knowledge required to circumvent attitudinal and resource barriers to enterprise.

Keywords Cultural values, Entrepreneurial intention, Ukraine, Universities, Enterprise education

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Education þ Training

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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Education þ Training Vol. 56 No. 8/9, 2014 pp. 680-696

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