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Entrepreneurial Intentions among Higher Education Students in Finland and Spain: Developing and Piloting a Survey Instrument

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  • Elina Varamäki

    (Business School, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland)

  • Erno Tornikoski

    (Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France)

  • Sanna Joensuu

    (Business School,Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland)

  • Kari Ristimäki

    (Business School, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland)

  • Andreu Blesa

    (Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

  • Maria Ripolles

    (Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the results of a pilot study in which the new instrument was developed and tested to measure the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in multi-country context. The developed instrument was largely based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen (1991). In the pilot study, the authors were also paying attention to two issues, namely (i) whether the level of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, (ii) whether the relative importance of the three antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, and (iii) whether the background variables exercise similar effects on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in different countries. The empirical context of the pilot study is made of two higher education institutions (one in Finland, one in Spain) and concerns their first-year students at undergraduate programs. In the end of this paper, the authors will discuss the implications of the empirical observations of their pilot study.

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  • Elina Varamäki & Erno Tornikoski & Sanna Joensuu & Kari Ristimäki & Andreu Blesa & Maria Ripolles, 2013. "Entrepreneurial Intentions among Higher Education Students in Finland and Spain: Developing and Piloting a Survey Instrument," International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), IGI Global, vol. 5(4), pages 1-16, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jisss0:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:1-16
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    1. Nematollah Shiri & Rachel S. Shinnar & Ali Asghar Mirakzadeh & Kiumars Zarafshani, 2017. "Cultural values and entrepreneurial intentions among agriculture students in Iran," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 1157-1179, December.
    2. Carlos Bazan, 2022. "Effect of the University’s Environment and Support System on Subjective Social Norms as Precursor of the Entrepreneurial Intention of Students," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(4), pages 21582440221, October.
    3. Carlos Bazan & Hannah Gaultois & Arifusalam Shaikh & Katie Gillespie & Sean Frederick & Ali Amjad & Simon Yap & Chantel Finn & James Rayner & Nafisa Belal, 2020. "A systematic literature review of the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of social entrepreneurial intention of students," Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 9(1), pages 1-28, December.

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