The effects of demographic characteristics on entrepreneurial intention in the pre-venture stage of entrepreneurship
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2011
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Individuals' entrepreneurial intentions are the foundations of new-organisation creation. Using the demographic-characteristics approach of entrepreneurship as its basis, this study examines the effects of selected demographic characteristics on pre-venture entrepreneurial intentions. This study analysed the responses of 698 undergraduate university students to a questionnaire to test its hypotheses. Statistical analyses found significant and positive relationships between both being a male and having an entrepreneur-parent role-model and having entrepreneurial intentions for business-administration students, but the entrepreneur-parent role-model was the sole significant and positive predictor of engineering students' entrepreneurial intentions. Age was not a significant predictor of entrepreneurial intentions for undergraduate students. This study's findings do not support birth-order argument. Implications and future research directions are also discussed. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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Demographic characteristics, Entrepreneurial intention, Entrepreneurship, Pre-venture stage of entrepreneurship
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International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
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Q3
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14
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3
