scholarly journals A Partial Least-Square Mediation Analysis of the Contribution of Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship Education to Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8697
Author(s):  
Anca-Otilia Dodescu ◽  
Elena-Aurelia Botezat ◽  
Alexandru Constăngioară ◽  
Ioana-Crina Pop-Cohuţ
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
The University

The present paper presents findings of entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 313 undergraduate students of the University of Oradea, Romania, from different non-economic fields of study (engineering, health, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, and arts), including students from rural areas and other disadvantaged groups enrolled in an entrepreneurship education project financed through European Social Fund. A complex mediation chain is set in place in a net of relationships linking the benefits of entrepreneurial education to entrepreneurship self-efficacy, entrepreneurship attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms in our estimation of entrepreneurial intentions. Using a multigroup analysis, we address the OECD inclusive entrepreneurship perspective of students ‘at-risk’ on the labor market and under-represented in entrepreneurship, identifying how the benefits of entrepreneurship education can be better capitalized by each category. The present paper advocates the necessity to extend entrepreneurship education outside the economics and business specializations.

scholarly journals Consumers’ Intention to Adopt Blockchain Food Traceability Technology towards Organic Food Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 912
Author(s):  
Xin Lin ◽  
Shu-Chen Chang ◽  
Tung-Hsiang Chou ◽  
Shih-Chih Chen ◽  
Athapol Ruangkanjanases
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Food Traceability ◽  
Traceability System

Establishing a blockchain food traceability system (BFTS) is increasingly important and urgent to resolve the contradiction between consumers’ intention regarding safe food selections and the spread of polluted foods. Using the advantages of blockchain, such as immutability, decentralization, openness, and anonymity, we can build trusted food traceability systems based on these important characteristics. With reliable information, traceability from production to sales can effectively improve food safety. In this research, multiple models, namely, the information success model (ISS) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) are formed into a conceptual integrated framework to study the intentions’ influenced factors of BFTS technology for Chinese consumers to help ensure food safety and the quality of Chinese organic food products. A face-to-face questionnaire survey with 300 valid responses was analyzed by Partial Least Square from the Chinese consumers focusing on the organic food products. This study found that the attitude and perceived behavioral control qualities significantly and positively affect the usage intention in adopting BFTS, while the subjective norms are positively but not significantly correlation with the usage intention in using BFTS. The above results will inform suggestions for productors and academics along with implications to promote BFTS’ usage intention.

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL EQUATION TEST OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AMONG NIGERIAN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chidera Christian Ugwuanyi ◽  
Pamela Ifeoma Nwagbo ◽  
Ikechukwu Joseph Attamah
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
University Undergraduates

The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention among undergraduates. The paper investigates how the outcome of an effective entrepreneurial education system- attitude, skills and knowledge could affect the intentions of the students to choosing entrepreneurship as a career choice. The study was conducted in Enugu state, Nigeria among university undergraduates. A total of 250 students were engaged but only 196 valid responses were gathered. The structural model and the hypotheses were tested using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach in SmartPLS M2.0 software. Our findings reveal that the proposed determinants all bear positive relationships with entrepreneurial intention in varying degrees. Also we found entrepreneurial knowledge to have a direct impact on entrepreneurial attitude. Managerial and practical implications were made as well as future research avenues suggested.

scholarly journals Application of theory of planned behavior to study online booking behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuli Christina ◽  
Ni Nyoman Kerti Yasa
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Online Travel

The development of the internet has influenced the development of the world economy. Various buying and selling transactions that previously could only be done face-to-face, have now developed into transactions via the internet known as e-business or e-commerce. The hotel room online booking system was created to make it easier for consumers to book rooms 24 hours a day. With the availability of the online booking feature, consumers can access hotel information in detail and more transparently, besides that, consumers can also see reviews which can be used as their consideration in choosing hotels and planning holidays. Traveloka's significant development as an Indonesian online travel agent unicorn plays an important role in accelerating the growth rate of the online travel ecosystem, especially for the domestic market. There are many factors that must be examined in finding information, placing orders, and purchasing online. Therefore, this research is focused on online booking behavior. This study aims to determine the influence between variables based on Theory of Planned Behavior, which consists of attitude toward the online booking behavior, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, online booking intention and online booking behavior at Traveloka. Data was collected from 133 respondents of domestic tourists who have made online bookings at Traveloka. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) statistics with the Smart PLS 3.0 M3 program to determine the complexity of the relationship between latent variables and their indicators. The results of this study indicate that attitude toward the behavior and subjective norms have a positive and significant effect on online booking intention. Meanwhile, perceived behavioral control has no significant effect on online booking intention. Another finding is that online booking intention and perceived behavioral control are known to have a positive and significant effect on online booking behavior. Traveloka management and marketers are also expected to be able to use the results of this research to evaluate and take corrective action on aspects that are deemed inadequate and manage the ease of use of the application to increase online booking intentions through the Traveloka application.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING THE INTENTION TO PURCHASE ORGANIC VEGETABLES WITH THEORY PLANNED BEHAVIOUR APPROACH

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Septiadinur Rejeki ◽  
Novil Dedy Andriatmoko ◽  
Hery Toiba
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Planned Behaviour ◽  
Organic Vegetables

The recent modern healthy lifestyle is influenced by the selection of food ingredient such as organic vegetables. Organic vegetables are well known in community. But, the purchase of organic vegetables has decreased in the last few years because price has been high, packaging and quality have not been interesting, and low priority on organic vegetables than conventional vegetables. This research was conducted by the Theory Planned Behaviour (TPB) approach with 6 variables. Those are price, packaging, quality, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control to analyze the effect of factor to the decreased purchase attitude and intention buy organic vegetables with Structural Equation Model (SEM)-Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis. The results showed that the following factors are price, quality, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control have an effect to the decreased purchase attitude and intention buy organic vegetables. So, it can be a strategy for selling and consuming organic vegetables in the future.

scholarly journals Mengeksplorasi Variabel Pemediasi Hubungan Pendidikan Kewirausahaan dan Niat Berwirausaha Selama Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Nia Nur Safitri ◽  
Jaka Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling

This study aims to determine the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions through risk taking, self-efficacy, and being proactive during the COVID-19 pandemic. The population in this study were students of class XI and XII majoring in office governance automation who took lessons on creative products and entrepreneurship at SMKN 1 Surabaya using 188 respondents with simple random sampling technique. Methods of data collection using a questionnaire. Analysis of the data used in this study is Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The results obtained in this study are entrepreneurship education has no significant effect on entrepreneurial intentions, risk taking as a mediation has no significant effect between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions, self-efficacy is able to significantly mediate the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intentions, proactive is not able to significantly mediate the effect of education entrepreneurship to entrepreneurial intentions. The limitation of this study is that the proposed model was only tested in SMKN 1 Surabaya, students of class XI and XII majoring in office governance automation. Originality in this study is to measure the mediating variables, namely risk taking, self-efficacy, and proactiveness in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions.

scholarly journals CUSTOMER PURCHASE INTENTION ON SHARIA MUTUAL FUND PRODUCTS: A TPB APPROACH

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Evie Octarina ◽  
Hartoyo Hartoyo ◽  
Irfan Syauqi Beik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control

This study aimed to determine the influence of variables in TPB (attitude toward behavior, perceived behavioral control, subjective norm), religiosity, knowledge, and risk perception to intention purchase of sharia mutual fund. The sample in this study was customer of Bank Sharia XYZ of 164 customers. The analysis applied in this study was Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square. The result of this research showed that the independent variable had positive and significant influence to dependent variables attitude toward behavior and subjective norm. Religiosity and knowledge have no significant influence toward intention to purchase, while perceived behavioral control and risk perception had no significant influence with intention to purchases. The other result showed that religiosity had a positive significant influence to attitude toward behavior. The conclusion of this research shown that religiosity is the factor which influence attitude toward behavior, attitude toward behavior and subjective norm are the factors which influence intention purchase of sharia mutual fund.

scholarly journals The Role of Religious Commitment, Religious Self-Identity on Consumer’s Willingness to Pay for A Halal Product

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-302
Author(s):  
Rahma Elsitasari ◽  
Asmai Ishak
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Self Identity

This research aims to analyze consumer's willingness to pay toward halal products through the role of religious commitment, religious self-identity, using the theory of planned behavior. This study examines the willingness to pay consumers based on the consumption experiences of well-known foreign franchise restaurants in Indonesia. The data was collected through 250 Muslim students in Yogyakarta. The survey was filled by Google form. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling, employing the partial least square method (PLS). Findings of the research show that the attitude and the religious self-identity have no impact on the willingness to pay for the halal product, while the perceived behavioral control, the subjective norm, and the religious commitment have a positive and significant effect on the willingness to pay. Additionally, religious commitment has a positive and significant influence on the attitude, and on the religious self-identity. The practical implication of this study suggests the marketers should understand those variables that influence consumers' willingness to pay for halal-certified products from foreign franchise restaurants, namely the subjective norms, the perceived behavioral control, and the religious commitment.

scholarly journals Influences of Behavioral Intention to Engage in Environmental Accounting Practices for Corporate Sustainability: Managerial Perspectives from a Developing Country

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5266
Author(s):  
Xiaofang Chen ◽  
P.R. Weerathunga ◽  
Mohammad Nurunnabi ◽  
K.M.M.C.B. Kulathunga ◽  
W.H.M.S. Samarathunga
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Business Operations

Environmental degradation is a serious global issue that has received increasing attention from scholars, policymakers, regulators, environmental activists, and the public as a whole. In the meantime, corporations have been criticized as major contributors to environmental pollution. Environmental accounting (EA) is a corporate practice that seeks to account for the cost of environmental impacts of business operations. However, it is questionable whether the true cost of environmental impacts of business operations is accounted for in the conventional accounting systems. In order to shed more light on this issue, this study examines key drivers of managerial intention to engage in EA practices in Sri Lanka. We employ the theory of planned behavior to conceptualize the antecedents of managers’ intention to engage in EA practices. The results of the partial least square structural equation model (PLS-SEM) evaluation revealed that managers’ intention is significantly influenced by the attitudes towards EA practices, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. Our results also indicate that a larger proportion of the variance of perceived behavioral control is explained by the perceived cost and complexity, perceived regulatory pressure, and organizational environmental orientation. The findings of this study provide important theoretical and practical implications for scholars, managers, and policymakers.

Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Loi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
University Course

Drawing upon an extracurricular university course on entrepreneurship, this work explores the dynamics among human and social capital and four learning outcomes: entrepreneurial intentions, perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and startup activities. Following a longitudinal perspective, the study examined those dynamics in a sample of 66 students. Findings reveal that the influence of human capital decreased by the end of the course, yet played a fundamental role in improving intention and startup activities at the beginning of the course. A different pattern emerged for social capital (e.g., having friends who work as entrepreneurs), which maintained its relevance in enhancing perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and startup activities after the course. Such results support the equalizer function of entrepreneurship education with respect to human capital, as well as underscore the paramount role of peers in sustaining the development of an entrepreneurial mindset.

scholarly journals Social capital and entrepreneurial intention: empirical evidence from rural community of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjad Ali ◽  
Sania Yousuf
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan

AbstractUnderstanding the antecedents of the entrepreneurial intentions is vital in development of entrepreneurship in a region. Entrepreneurship is considered as one of the important elements of local economic development which can be used to address the issues of poverty and scarcity of livelihood opportunities in rural areas of the world. This study investigates the influence of social capital on entrepreneurial intentions in rural area of Pakistan. For this purpose, a representative sample of 325 respondents has been selected from rural community in Gilgit-Baltistan. The constructed model has been estimated using the partial least square method and the results show that social capital has significant positive impact on entrepreneurial intentions by forming perceived desirability, perceived self-efficacy, and perceived social norms towards entrepreneurship. This study recommends rural community of Pakistan should be given awareness about the potential of entrepreneurship opportunities and such awareness programs have unique advantages to various segments of rural community. Women, unemployed individuals, and younger generations in particular may get the maximum benefits as people in mountainous regions have already limited earning options. In such a case, developing entrepreneurial intentions of the mountain community in Gilgit-Baltistan leads to understandings of benefits of initiating their own ventures, get economic advantages, and contribute to households’ income.

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