Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Postgraduate Management Students in India: The Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach

Autor: Khundrakpam Devananda Singh, Ditalak Mpanme
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extension Journal): A worldwide window on MSME Studies. 50:38-45
ISSN: 2456-1223
0970-8464
DOI: 10.1177/09708464221130907
Popis: This study aimed to scrutinise entrepreneurial intention among the postgraduate management students in India. In this research activity, the theory of planned behaviour questionnaire with 21 items was adopted. Data were collected through Google Forms questionnaire from 310 postgraduate management students of 8 Central universities in northeastern region of India. Cronbach’s alpha reliability test, correlation, regression and analysis of variance were used to analyse the collected data. As a result of analyses, the independent variables, namely attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control, had a positive relationship with entrepreneurial intention of the respondents. The study concluded that the respondents had significant positive entrepreneurial intention. It was also found that only 47% of entrepreneurial intention could be measured by the three independent variables of theory of planned behaviour, and 53% were the other factors remained behind that could not be identified by these variables.
Databáze: OpenAIRE