Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Moderating Role of Parental Self-Employment

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Universitat de Lleida. Departament d'Administració d'Empreses
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Amofah, Kwaku;
Saladrigues Solé, Ramon;
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(2020)
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Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Moderating Role of Parental Self-Employment.
New trends in accounting and management, 2020, núm. 18, p. 1-52.
https://doi.org/10.21001/workingpapers.18.2020.
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Using the entrepreneurial intention model, we examine how parental self-employment/role
models moderates (using Multi-Group Analysis) the relationship between the antecedents of
entrepreneurial intention and Social Valuation, Closer Valuation, Entrepreneurial Skills and
Environmental Support.
The data of three hundred and nineteen respondents were analysed by structural equation
modelling (SEM). Thus, SEM was used to examine the structure model of developing entrepreneurial
intentions and bootstrap confidence intervals were estimated to test the mediation
role. Multi-Group Analysis was used to test the moderating role of parental self-employment
(PSE) to determine whether there is significant relationship between respondents with PSE
and respondents without PSE.
Consistent with prior studies, ATE and PBC have a positive effect on EI. The results prove
that entrepreneurial skills have an influence on ATE, PBC and SN. Regarding the influence
of perceived environmental knowledge (ENSUP) and ATE, the relationship was insignificant,
though the impact of ENSUP on PBC and SN was significant. With respect to the correlations
between SV and CV and the antecedents of TPB respectively, all the hypotheses were accepted
except CV→ATE and SV→PBC relationships. This study revealed that respondents with
parental self-employment perceive a higher attitude towards entrepreneurship, PBC, entrepreneurial
skills, entrepreneurial support, and entrepreneurial intention that those without PSE.
However, the MGA established that the formation of entrepreneurial intentions is similar for
respondents with parental self-employment and respondents without PSE. Thus, there was no
significant relationship between respondents with PSE and respondents without PSE.
A limitation of this study is the missing link between intentions and actual behavior.
The results of this paper indicate that entrepreneurial intention is explained by the three antecedents
(ATE, SN, and PBC) of the TPB. This study adds empirical support to the robustness
and reliability of the TPB in entrepreneurial research. This study has implications for the content
of entrepreneurial intentions, especially with the incorporation of culture, motivations,
skills and knowledge of the entrepreneurial environment within a higher educational institution.
Thus, this study moves a step further by analyzing other variables that are considered
critical to the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions.
This study is perhaps one of the pioneering works to conduct an MGA to assess the relationship
between respondents with parental self-employment and respondents without PSE, using
the entrepreneurial intention model.