Entrepreneurial Intention Determinants Among Female Students. The Influence of Role Models, Parents’ Occupation and Perceived Behavioral Control on Forming the Desire to Become a Business Owner
Authors: Sahinidis, Alexandros 
Kossieri, Evaggelia 
Varelas, Sotirios 
Stavroulakis, Dimitrios 
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2019
Conference: 7th International Conference "Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism" (ICSIMAT), 17-22 October 2018, Athenian Riviera, Greece 
Book: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference "Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism" 
Series: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
Keywords: Gender, Perceived behavioral control, Role models, Student’s entrepreneurial intentions
Abstract: 
The study of entrepreneurial intentions has received considerable attention, since intentions have proved to predict entrepreneurial behavior. This paper attempts to shed light on the formation of female students’ entrepreneurial intentions through the mediation of parents’ occupation, role models and Perceived Behavioral Control. According to Ajzen’s theory of Planned Behavior, Perceived Behavioral Control indicates an individual’s perception concerning the ability of performing a specific behavior. An empirical research was conducted on a sample comprised by 952 students from 5 Greek higher education institutions during the academic year 2014–2015 and data were processed with SPSS. Our research findings illustrate that Perceived Behavioral Control and Role Models of female students do influence entrepreneurial intentions. This finding was also confirmed by considering Role Models and Perceived Behavioral Control as Independent variables. Parents’ occupation also has emerged as a cardinal determinant in our study, since students having both parents entrepreneurs expressed a significantly stronger intention to start a business than the ones with only one parent entrepreneur. On the other hand, maternal influence on daughters in the vocational field was not confirmed since female students whose mother was entrepreneur (but the father was not) did not show statistically significant differences from the rest with regard to entrepreneurial propensity. Our research focuses on the impact of female youths’ social context and perception of personal abilities in developing entrepreneurial aspirations. Research results would be beneficial to government bodies and business communities in promoting entrepreneurial spirit, starting from the family. Entrepreneurial education could offer a positive contribution to this end.
ISBN: 978-3-030-12453-3
ISSN: 21987254
21987246
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_20
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/2605
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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