Malebana Mmakgabo Justice, Mahlaole Simon Thabo
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 13;14:1176065. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176065. eCollection 2023.
This study used the theory of planned behaviour to investigate the effects of prior entrepreneurship exposure and work experience on entrepreneurial intentions among students at a South African university of technology.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Data was gathered using an online survey questionnaire and convenience sampling. The online survey was completed by 301 entrepreneurship diploma students from the Tshwane University of Technology, and the data were analysed using Smart-PLS 4.
The findings of this study revealed that prior work experience has a positive and statistically significant relationship with subjective norms and an insignificant relationship with perceived behavioural control, attitude towards behaviour and entrepreneurial intentions. Prior entrepreneurship exposure had a negative but statistically significant relationship with entrepreneurial intentions, subjective norms, attitude towards behaviour and perceived behavioural control. The relationship between prior entrepreneurship exposure and entrepreneurial intentions was partially mediated by subjective norms, attitude towards behaviour and perceived behavioural control. The findings further revealed that perceived behavioural control, subjective norms and attitude towards behaviour had a positive and statistically significant relationship with entrepreneurial intentions.
The study tested the effects of both prior entrepreneurship exposure and work experience on entrepreneurial intentions and its antecedents which have not been explored fully in previous research. Thus, the study advances the theory of planned behaviour as a model for testing the role of prior entrepreneurship exposure and work experience in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in the South African context.
本研究运用计划行为理论，调查先前的创业经历和工作经验对南非一所理工大学学生创业意向的影响。
设计/方法/途径：通过在线调查问卷和便利抽样收集数据。来自茨瓦内理工大学的301名创业文凭学生完成了在线调查，并使用Smart-PLS 4对数据进行分析。
本研究结果显示，先前的工作经验与主观规范呈正相关且具有统计学意义，与感知行为控制、行为态度和创业意向呈不显著相关。先前的创业经历与创业意向、主观规范、行为态度和感知行为控制呈负相关，但具有统计学意义。先前的创业经历与创业意向之间的关系部分由主观规范、行为态度和感知行为控制介导。研究结果还显示，感知行为控制、主观规范和行为态度与创业意向呈正相关且具有统计学意义。
本研究测试了先前的创业经历和工作经验对创业意向及其前因的影响，而此前的研究尚未充分探讨这些方面。因此，本研究推进了计划行为理论，将其作为一个模型，用于测试在南非背景下，先前的创业经历和工作经验在创业意向形成中的作用。
