Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention

This research is based on the responses to a questionnaire applied to 351 students of business management in Chile and Colombia. Through the analysis of structural equations on Ajzen’s model, we found that entrepreneurial education, the University environment, and the prior entrepreneurial...

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Autores principales:	Soria-Barreto,Karla, Honores-Marin,Guillermo, Gutiérrez-Zepeda,Paulina, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez,Julián
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2017
Materias:	entrepreneurial intention prior entrepreneurial exposure entrepreneurial education higher education Chile Colombia
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242017000200006
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-272420170002000062017-08-10Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial IntentionSoria-Barreto,KarlaHonores-Marin,GuillermoGutiérrez-Zepeda,PaulinaGutiérrez-Rodríguez,Julián entrepreneurial intention prior entrepreneurial exposure entrepreneurial education higher education Chile Colombia This research is based on the responses to a questionnaire applied to 351 students of business management in Chile and Colombia. Through the analysis of structural equations on Ajzen’s model, we found that entrepreneurial education, the University environment, and the prior entrepreneurial exposure are mediated by the factors of the Ajzen`s model to generate entrepreneurial intention in higher education students. The results show that entrepreneurial education strengthens the perceived control of behavior and, with it, albeit in a differentiated way, the entrepreneurial intention of men and women. University environment affects entrepreneurial intention through attitude towards entrepreneurship; and finally, the work experience, used as one of the variables that measure prior entrepreneurial exposure, explains the entrepreneurial intention inversely through the subjective norms. We found that gender has a moderate effect on perceived control of behavior and entrepreneurial education. The scarce studies on the impact of the University environment and the mixed results of the entrepreneurial education and prior entrepreneurial exposure toward entrepreneurial intention show the necessity for further research. A second contribution is the opportunity to present new evidence about the relationship between University environment, entrepreneurial education and prior exposure to developing countries of South America, including the gender effect (moderator) for entrepreneurial intention. It is important to note that most of the research in this area applies to developed countries, and some scholars suggest that extrapolating the results is not convenient.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.12 n.2 20172017-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242017000200006en10.4067/S0718-27242017000200006
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spellingShingle	entrepreneurial intention prior entrepreneurial exposure entrepreneurial education higher education Chile Colombia Soria-Barreto,Karla Honores-Marin,Guillermo Gutiérrez-Zepeda,Paulina Gutiérrez-Rodríguez,Julián Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
description	This research is based on the responses to a questionnaire applied to 351 students of business management in Chile and Colombia. Through the analysis of structural equations on Ajzen’s model, we found that entrepreneurial education, the University environment, and the prior entrepreneurial exposure are mediated by the factors of the Ajzen`s model to generate entrepreneurial intention in higher education students. The results show that entrepreneurial education strengthens the perceived control of behavior and, with it, albeit in a differentiated way, the entrepreneurial intention of men and women. University environment affects entrepreneurial intention through attitude towards entrepreneurship; and finally, the work experience, used as one of the variables that measure prior entrepreneurial exposure, explains the entrepreneurial intention inversely through the subjective norms. We found that gender has a moderate effect on perceived control of behavior and entrepreneurial education. The scarce studies on the impact of the University environment and the mixed results of the entrepreneurial education and prior entrepreneurial exposure toward entrepreneurial intention show the necessity for further research. A second contribution is the opportunity to present new evidence about the relationship between University environment, entrepreneurial education and prior exposure to developing countries of South America, including the gender effect (moderator) for entrepreneurial intention. It is important to note that most of the research in this area applies to developed countries, and some scholars suggest that extrapolating the results is not convenient.
author	Soria-Barreto,Karla Honores-Marin,Guillermo Gutiérrez-Zepeda,Paulina Gutiérrez-Rodríguez,Julián
author_facet	Soria-Barreto,Karla Honores-Marin,Guillermo Gutiérrez-Zepeda,Paulina Gutiérrez-Rodríguez,Julián
author_sort	Soria-Barreto,Karla
title	Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
title_short	Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
title_full	Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
title_fullStr	Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
title_full_unstemmed	Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention
title_sort	prior exposure and educational environment towards entrepreneurial intention
publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate	2017
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Prior Exposure and Educational Environment towards Entrepreneurial Intention

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