Salisu Jamilu Bappa
Department of Business Administration and Management, College of Business and Management Studies, Jigawa State Polytechnic, PMB 7040, Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria.
Heliyon. 2020 Nov 24;6(11):e05504. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05504. eCollection 2020 Nov.
Over the periods of 2015-2018 there have been declining trends for Nigeria in Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) signifying a major challenge to its entrepreneurship development. To understand some of the explanatory variables for this phenomenon Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was deployed and extended to examine indirect effects of entrepreneurial training effectiveness and government entrepreneurial supports on the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students venturing intention into IT related entrepreneurship through attitude and perceived behavioral control for gaining insights to address the aforesaid challenge. Quantitative approach was employed through data collected from sampled TVET students which was analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The result supports all the hypothesized indirect-path effects. It implied that naturally built attitude and behavioral control alone cannot influence TVET students venturing intention; it needs enhancement through effective entrepreneurial training and government entrepreneurial supports. The research opens new research paradigm for studying the antecedents of the original determinants of intention through indirect path analyses. Applying these findings can reduce the reliance on public sector for employment. It could equally create jobs that could reduce societal crisis through employment into privately owned businesses.
在2015 - 2018年期间，尼日利亚的全球创业指数（GEI）呈下降趋势，这对其创业发展构成了重大挑战。为了解这一现象的一些解释变量，计划行为理论（TPB）被应用并扩展，以研究创业培训效果和政府创业支持通过态度和感知行为控制对技术和职业教育培训（TVET）学生涉足与信息技术相关创业的创业意向的间接影响，从而深入了解应对上述挑战的方法。通过从抽样的TVET学生收集的数据采用定量方法，并使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS - SEM）进行分析。结果支持了所有假设的间接路径效应。这意味着仅靠自然形成的态度和行为控制无法影响TVET学生的创业意向；需要通过有效的创业培训和政府创业支持来增强。该研究通过间接路径分析为研究意向原始决定因素的前因开辟了新的研究范式。应用这些研究结果可以减少对公共部门就业的依赖。它同样可以创造就业机会，通过进入私营企业就业来减少社会危机。
