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Where does entrepreneurial intention collide?

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pooled in integrationpooled in integrationentrepreneurialintention4 NAMESEvent modelSHAPERO · EVENT MODELPlanned behaviourAJZEN · PLANNED BEHAVIOURPooled modelSCHLAEGEL · POOLED INTENTEntrepreneurialWALTER · ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Entrepreneurial event model

the intent to start a venture, predicted by its perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, and a propensity to act.

In Shapero and Sokol's 1982 chapter The social dimensions of entrepreneurship, the decision to start a venture tends to follow a disruption in a person's life and is then shaped by two judgments: how desirable founding a firm feels and how feasible it seems, together with a propensity to act on those judgments. Krueger, Reilly, and Carsrud's 2000 Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions turned this into three measured predictors, perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, and propensity to act, used to predict intent. The thing being measured is a person's readiness to found a venture, the very same target that the theory of planned behaviour reaches under different labels.[1][2]

Unit
One person's stated intent to found a venture, scaled by desirability and feasibility ratings
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Survey items for perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, and propensity to act, combined to predict intent

Theory of planned behaviour

Venture intent from attitude, norms, and control

Ajzen's 1991 The theory of planned behavior predicts any planned action from three antecedents of intention: attitude toward the behaviour, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control. Applied to entrepreneurship, and tested head to head with the event model by Krueger, Reilly, and Carsrud in 2000, these become a would-be founder's attitude to starting a firm, the social pressure they feel, and their belief that they can actually do it. The intention it predicts is the same commitment to found a venture that the event model captures through desirability and feasibility, so the two are rival labels for one construct rather than two different things.[3][2]

Unit
One person's stated intent to found a venture, scaled by attitude, norm, and control ratings
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Survey items for attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control, combined to predict intent

Meta-analytic integration

intent to found a firm, read as one readiness that both the entrepreneurial event model and planned behaviour theory predict.

Schlaegel and Koenig's 2014 Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intent: A Meta-Analytic Test and Integration of Competing Models pooled 98 studies and used meta-analytic structural equation modelling to test the entrepreneurial event model and the theory of planned behaviour against each other and together. It reported that both frameworks predict intent and that an integrated model fits better, treating their overlapping predictors as alternative readings of one underlying readiness to found a firm. The referent is still the single construct of entrepreneurial intention, now estimated across many samples rather than owned by any one model.[4]

Unit
A pooled correlation between a predictor and entrepreneurial intent across many samples
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Meta-analytic structural equation modelling of predictor-to-intent correlations drawn from 98 studies

Entrepreneurship education

business students' intentions to become self-employed, shaped across levels by the entrepreneurial context of their university department.

In entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial intention refers to business students' intentions to become self-employed, shaped across levels by the entrepreneurial context of their university department. This meaning comes from Walter (2012) in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.[5]

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References

  1. Shapero, A., & Sokol, L. (1982). The social dimensions of entrepreneurship. In C. A. Kent, D. L. Sexton, & K. H. Vesper (Eds.), Encyclopedia of entrepreneurship (pp. 72–90). Prentice-Hall.
  2. Krueger, N. F., Reilly, M. D., & Carsrud, A. L. (2000). Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Venturing, 15(5–6), 411–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0883-9026(98)00033-0
  3. Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2), 179–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T
  4. Schlaegel, C., & Koenig, M. (2014). Determinants of entrepreneurial intent: A meta-analytic test and integration of competing models. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(2), 291–332. https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12087
  5. Walter, S. G., Parboteeah, K. P., & Walter, A. (2012). University Departments and Self–Employment Intentions of Business Students: A Cross–Level Analysis. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(2), 175-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00460.x

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