Entrepreneurial orientation and its crucial role in entrepreneurial intention and behaviour: Case of Tunisian Students

Entrepreneurship is becoming one of the most adequate solutions to reduce various, social, environmental and economic problems. In order to encourage and boost entrepreneurship in the country, Tunisian government has opted for providing numerous supporting activities. In contrast, the results were not as expected. As such, understanding of what influence individuals intention towards entrepreneurship is important in the effort of entrepreneurship development. This study addresses university students and aims to study of entrepreneurial intention: the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on entrepreneurial intention and behaviour. A survey was conducted on 300 students from a public university pertaining to different specialties. The results revealed that university students have high interest in entrepreneurship and possess the desire to become entrepreneurs as well. The aforementioned survey indicated that entrepreneurial intention of university students was affected positively by their quality of proactiveness while innovativeness and risk-taking ability were not considered as influential factors. Thus, this paper puts under scrutiny the study of entrepreneurial intention, which can help researchers and policymakers to grasp the different aspects of entrepreneurship, mainly in the phase that precedes the entrepreneurial process.