What it is important to know about the effect of religious beliefs on entrepreneurial intention

The case of university students

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21592570
AutoresMargarida Rodrigues (0000-0002-0997-9716, CEFAGE‐UBI Research Center Instituto de Estudos Superiores de Fafe Covilhã Portugal), Rui Silva (0000-0002-0283-9462, CETRAD University of Trás‐os‐Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD Vila Real Portugal), Mário Franco (0000-0001-7818-0206, Department of Management and Economics, CEFAGE‐UBI Research Center University of Beira Interior Covilhã Portugal, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume77
Fascículo2
Páginas246-269
Data de publicação2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHigher Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-5224 • E-ISSN: 1468-2273
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hequ.12394
OpenAlexW4225907409
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas148

Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) is one of the dimensions most studied and validated scientifically in the literature associated with entrepreneurship. This study intends to go one step further in developing the literature by presenting little studied dimensions as direct antecedents of EI. Its aim is to analyse the influence of the dimensions of Religious Beliefs, Psychological and Cognitive Factors, and Social Influence on the EI of students in higher education institutions (HEI). Five hundred and eight questionnaires were collected from higher education students, 32% of them male and 68% female. The results show that the model proposed has good explanatory power and confirms its robustness in forecasting students' EI, validating all the research hypotheses with very robust and statistically significant factor loadings. This corroborates the scarce literature on the subject, especially concerning the influence of Religious Beliefs on EI

Cognition · Entrepreneurial Education · Entrepreneurship · Entrepreneurship education · Explanatory power · Higher education · Need for cognition · Political science · Social cognitive theory · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership