Topophilic feelings and their relationships with entrepreneurial attitude and intent [doi: 10.21529/RECADM.2017015]

Autor: Antonia Márcia Rodrigues Sousa, Fabiana Pinto de Almeida Bizarria, Alexandre Oliveira Lima, Marcus Vinicius de Oliveira Brasil, Raimundo Eduardo Silveira Fontenele
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, Vol 16, Iss 3, Pp 233-253 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1677-7387
DOI: 10.21529/RECADM.2017015
Popis: By considering that a contextual analysis on the environment collaborates to help entrepreneurs, based on affective sets of the feeling of belonging, this research aims to search the relation between an entrepreneurial intention and attitude in the raising of topophilic feelings in college students. Thus, a quantitative study provided data collected through a sample of 360 students from two further superior education institutes of Ceará. To check this research assumptions (H1 – level of entrepreneurial attitude with a positive impact in the raising topophilic feelings and H2 – level of entrepreneurial intention with a positive impact in the raising of topophilic feelings), a Structural Analysis with the help of statistic software SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 20.0 was made. The analysis of causal trajectories evidenced that all assumptions are highly significant. The analysis of the model presents most of the factorial weights as elevated (≥0,5), besides the adequate coefficient of determination of 0, 27 (R 2 ≥0,25), informing the explanatory importance of regression. All the pattern regression weights (β) are significant at the level of significance (p< 0,001) and that there is still a correlation between Entrepreneurial Intention and Entrepreneurial Attitude. The C.R. values are above the reference values (C.R>│1,96│). Results presented a positive influence of the entrepreneurial attitude and intention in the feeling of topophilia, once the not refuted assumptions became valid for this study, indicating which theoretical model is able to reproduce the correlational structure of the variable observed in the research sample. The arguments presented in this paper contribute for a larger theoretical knowledge about the relation between the entrepreneurial intention and the attitude in raising the topophilic feeling as well as the definition of strategies for entrepreneurial actions in college environments. Keywords: Topophilic Feelings. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Intention. Entrepreneurial Attitude
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