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Dynamics of Final Year Students’ Entrepreneurial Inclination: Does Understanding of Entrepreneurship Matter?

In: Small Business and Entrepreneurial Development in Africa

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  • Gloria K. Q. Agyapong

    (Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management)

  • Kojo Kakra Twum

    (Presbyterian University)

Abstract

Literature provides mixed findings of students’ entrepreneurial inclination. The chapter assesses factors that drive entrepreneurial inclination of students in a public university in a developing country context. Drawing on the sociological and theory of planned behaviour, four hypotheses are formulated and tested to determine the influence of academic curriculum, geographical distance, peer association and parent views on the likelihood to be entrepreneurial. Using explanatory survey, 180 final year students participated in the survey. A quantitative approach was used in analysing the data—specifically means standard deviations and multiple regression analysis. The results reveal that all the predictors—academic curriculum, geographical distance, peer association and parent views—had significant moderate effect on entrepreneurial inclination.

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  • Gloria K. Q. Agyapong & Kojo Kakra Twum, 2023. "Dynamics of Final Year Students’ Entrepreneurial Inclination: Does Understanding of Entrepreneurship Matter?," Springer Books, in: Robert E. Hinson & Doreen Anyamesem Odame & Eric Kwame Adae & Kwame Adom (ed.), Small Business and Entrepreneurial Development in Africa, chapter 2, pages 19-51, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-37675-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37675-7_2
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