A Cross-Cultural Approach to Understanding Entrepreneurial Intention

被引:383
作者
Moriano, Juan A. [1 ]
Gorgievski, Marjan [2 ]
Laguna, Mariola [3 ]
Stephan, Ute [4 ]
Zarafshani, Kiumars [5 ]
机构
[1] Spanish Univ Distance Educ, UNED, Madrid 28040, Spain
[2] Erasmus Univ, Dept Work & Org Psychol, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[3] John Paul II Catholic Univ Lublin, Inst Psychol, Lublin, Poland
[4] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Louvain, Belgium
[5] Razi Univ, Dept Agr Extens & Educ, Coll Agr, Kermanshah, Iran
关键词
entrepreneurship; intention; culture; attitudes; self-efficacy; MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE; PLANNED BEHAVIOR; SELF; PERSONALITY; EFFICACY; CHOICE; NORMS; WORK; BACK;
D O I
10.1177/0894845310384481
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:162 / 185
页数:24
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