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Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on 4C’s-Communication, Commerce, Connectivity, Culture, SIMSARC 2018, 17-19 December 2018, Pune, MH, India

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A Study on Entrepreneurial Intentions among B-school Students in India

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-12-2018.2283834,
        author={Raghavendra  Sode and Kalaa  Chenji and Laila  Memdani and S. M. Mushtakhusen},
        title={A Study on Entrepreneurial Intentions among B-school Students in India},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on 4C’s-Communication, Commerce, Connectivity, Culture, SIMSARC 2018, 17-19 December 2018, Pune, MH, India},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={SIMSARC},
        year={2019},
        month={9},
        keywords={entrepreneurship entrepreneurial intentions challenge autonomy self-realization authority and economic opportunity},
        doi={10.4108/eai.18-12-2018.2283834}
    }
    
  • Raghavendra Sode
    Kalaa Chenji
    Laila Memdani
    S. M. Mushtakhusen
    Year: 2019
    A Study on Entrepreneurial Intentions among B-school Students in India
    SIMSARC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-12-2018.2283834
Raghavendra Sode1,*, Kalaa Chenji1, Laila Memdani2, S. M. Mushtakhusen3
  • 1: Department of Human Resources
  • 2: Deparment of Economics
  • 3: Department of Soft Skills, ICFAI Business School
*Contact email: soderaghavendra@gmail.com

Abstract

Choosing entrepreneurship as a career is a risk-taking process for B-school students especially for the students in developing countries like India. Even though, the entrepreneurship program delivers theoretical and practical exposure through business plans and competitions and makes students look at entrepreneurial activity as one of the career paths. There is a need to understand the underlying reasons for choosing entrepreneurial activities among B-school students. Therefore, the current study focuses to understand the underlying reasons for B-school students to choose an entrepreneurial activity, identify the factors and link with entrepreneurial intentions. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods of research to achieve the objective. Five factors identified include challenge, autonomy, self-realization, authority, and economic opportunity. The factors are significantly related to entrepreneurial intentions. Further, regression analysis indicates that out of the factors economic opportunity is the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial intentions followed by autonomy, challenge, self-realization, and authority.

Keywords
entrepreneurship entrepreneurial intentions challenge autonomy self-realization authority and economic opportunity
Published
2019-09-02
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.18-12-2018.2283834
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