TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial networks and their impact on entrepreneurship intentions
T2 - perceived desirability and the perceived feasibility as mediators
AU - Sumadi, Mohammad Ahmad
AU - Alserhan, Baker Ahmad
AU - Hadman, Aiya
AU - Komodromos, Marcos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Stimulating potential entrepreneurs is a global challenge due to their pivotal role in enhancing economic growth and development. This has created a need to understand the factors affecting individuals' entrepreneurial intentions as mediated by perceived feasibility and perceived desirability leading to the identification of potential opportunities and, subsequently, to the behaviours of innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, and autonomy associated with starting a business. While a massive body of literature has focused on the impact of entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial intentions of students and undergraduates, this study targets those who have already graduated, dropouts, and those who never attended college. A survey-based quantitative methodology is adopted and by using structural equation modelling, the finding shows that perceived desirability has a statistically significantly positive impact mediating the entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial intentions. Perceived feasibility had a moderating effect mediating the two variables.
AB - Stimulating potential entrepreneurs is a global challenge due to their pivotal role in enhancing economic growth and development. This has created a need to understand the factors affecting individuals' entrepreneurial intentions as mediated by perceived feasibility and perceived desirability leading to the identification of potential opportunities and, subsequently, to the behaviours of innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, and autonomy associated with starting a business. While a massive body of literature has focused on the impact of entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial intentions of students and undergraduates, this study targets those who have already graduated, dropouts, and those who never attended college. A survey-based quantitative methodology is adopted and by using structural equation modelling, the finding shows that perceived desirability has a statistically significantly positive impact mediating the entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial intentions. Perceived feasibility had a moderating effect mediating the two variables.
KW - behaviours of innovativeness
KW - entrepreneurial intention
KW - entrepreneurial network
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - Jordan
KW - perceived desirability
KW - perceived feasibility
KW - social network
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U2 - 10.1504/JGBA.2023.138941
DO - 10.1504/JGBA.2023.138941
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85195565276
SN - 1746-966X
VL - 16
SP - 317
EP - 342
JO - Journal for Global Business Advancement
JF - Journal for Global Business Advancement
IS - 3
ER -