...Bahadur Ali Soomro; Naimatullah Shah Purpose The present study undertook an empirical investigation of entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy, need for achievement and entrepreneurial intention among Pakistan's commerce students. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied quantitative...

... vocational college students in Austria. Findings Results show that risk-taking propensity, proactiveness, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and competitiveness drive entrepreneurial identity aspiration. The effects of innovativeness and need for achievement motivation are nonsignificant. Data further suggest...

... design via a well-constructed questionnaire. The study's sample size consisted of 354 aspiring student entrepreneurs. Findings The result from the statistical analysis revealed that the entrepreneurial characteristics, especially risk tolerance, the need for achievement and the locus of control (LoC...

...Nor Azizan Che Embi; Haruna Babatunde Jaiyeoba; Sheila Ainon Yussof Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the data collected from Malaysian students to investigate the effects of students’ entrepreneurial characteristics (need for achievement, locus of control, propensity to take risk...

... have shown that innovativeness, self-confidence, propensity to take risk, need for achievement and tolerance for ambiguity are positively related to entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students. However, locus of control is not significantly related to entrepreneurial intention. Research...