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Received: 2018-02-12  |  Accepted: 2018-05-10  |  Published: 2018-06-30

Title

Economic development of community by entrepreneurship: an investigation of the entrepreneurial intent and the institutional support to the local community in Al-Kharj region


Abstract

The purpose of the present study is twofold, to investigate the entrepreneurial intent of the university students and to chalk out with the factors (educational) to be considered for institutional support by the university under study. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) questionnaire was adopted and administered along with a separate sixteen items sheet containng the items pertaining to the institutional suppot mechanisms. Overall, 370 responses were collected from both male & female students. The Data was analysed by applying correlations, linear and hierarchical regression and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The results of the study reaffirm the theory of planned behaviour in Saudi context with a significant variance of 43.2 percent in explaining students’ entrepreneurial intent. However, in the present case it is found that both attitude and perceived behavioral control are the significant predictors of entrepreneurial intent. Moreover, the subjective norm did not significantly predict the entrepreneurial intent. The findings also suggest a four steps generic model of institutional educational support for entrepreneurial nurturement to the local community.


Keywords

entrepreneurial intent, theory of planned behaviour, economic development, institutional support, Al-Kharj region


JEL classifications

L26 , O10 , C20


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/191


DOI


HAL


Pages

899-913


Funding

We are grateful to the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University for financing this study under the research project # 2015/02/4862.

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Naushad, Mohammad
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia https://psau.edu.sa
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Faridi, Mohammad Rishad
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia https://psau.edu.sa
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Syed, Abdul Malik
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia https://psau.edu.sa
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

5


Number

4


Issue date

June 2018


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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