TY - JOUR
T1 - A cross-cultural approach to understanding entrepreneurial intention
AU - Moriano, Juan A.
AU - Gorgievski, Marjan
AU - Laguna, Mariola
AU - Stephan, Ute
AU - Zarafshani, Kiumars
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - The current research aims to shed light on the role of culture in the formation of career intentions. It draws on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen), which has been widely employed to predict intentions, including entrepreneurial career intentions, but past research has almost exclusively been conducted in "Western" countries. The current research specifically explores the extent to which both the strength of relationships of TPB predictors with entrepreneurial career intentions and the TPB predictors themselves are invariant across cultures. The study compares six very different countries (Germany, India, Iran, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands), drawing on an overall sample of 1,074 students and their assessments of entrepreneurial career intentions. Results support culture universal effects of attitudes and perceived behavioral control (self-efficacy) on entrepreneurial career intentions but cultural variation in the effects of subjective norm.
AB - The current research aims to shed light on the role of culture in the formation of career intentions. It draws on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen), which has been widely employed to predict intentions, including entrepreneurial career intentions, but past research has almost exclusively been conducted in "Western" countries. The current research specifically explores the extent to which both the strength of relationships of TPB predictors with entrepreneurial career intentions and the TPB predictors themselves are invariant across cultures. The study compares six very different countries (Germany, India, Iran, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands), drawing on an overall sample of 1,074 students and their assessments of entrepreneurial career intentions. Results support culture universal effects of attitudes and perceived behavioral control (self-efficacy) on entrepreneurial career intentions but cultural variation in the effects of subjective norm.
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - self-efficacy
KW - attitudes
KW - culture
KW - intention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857564693&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0894845310384481
DO - 10.1177/0894845310384481
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857564693
SN - 0894-8453
VL - 39
SP - 162
EP - 185
JO - Journal of Career Development
JF - Journal of Career Development
IS - 2
ER -