International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186
Personal Motivations and Entrepreneurship Career Intentions: Testing Theory of Planned Behaviour
Gibreel T.1, Zaibet L.2, Al-Akhzami S.3, El-Haj A.4
1,2,3Department of Natural Resource Economics, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
4Department of Instructional and Teaching Technologies, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Abstract: This study evaluates how personal attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control can influence an individual’s intentions to become an entrepreneur based on planned behaviour and individual innovative cognitive style framework. A sample of 246 students was surveyed in the Sultan Qaboos University (164 females & 82 males). Three models were constructed in which the variables were hierarchically presented into the regression equations. Firstly, the theory of planned behaviour model comprises only those variables stated by the theory. Secondly, the innovative cognitive style model comprised those extracted as the innovativeness style measurements. The third model combined those variables specified the and variables of the. The obtained results suggest a positive link between personal attitudes, subjective norms, individual behaviour control and entrepreneurial intentions, and the innovative cognitive style and entrepreneurial intentions, consequently supporting this research hypothesis.
Keywords: entrepreneurship career intention; planned behaviour theory; the innovative cognitive style; personal attitudes; subjective norms; perceived behavioural control.
I.INTRODUCTION
The Global economic growth in 2021 is estimated at 5.4 per cent. Generally, this would leave 2021 G.D.P. some 6.5 percentage points lower than in the pre-COVID-19 projections of January 2020 (I.M.F. 2020). These statistics indicate that countries’ economies have the low capability to create sufficient jobs, improve employment quality in current jobs, and share economic growth gains. In many countries, an increasing number of university graduates do not find a job in the sector they were trained in (Rui et al., 2020). Self-employment is undeniably the oldest approach through which people offer and sell their labour in a market economy (Parker 2004). The earliest influential economists expressed the entrepreneurs’ role and their function in the economies of the day. Richard Cantillon, in 1755, highlighted the entrepreneur’s importance as an arbitrageur or speculator, who conducts all exchanges and bears risk due to buying at specific prices and selling uncertain ones (Petur 2017). According to (Baumol 1968), the entrepreneur is one of the most fascinating and indefinable characters. He has long been considered the apex of the hierarchy that governs its behaviour and thus bears substantial responsibility for the free enterprise society’s strength. Nevertheless, entrepreneurship has long been a well-thought-out crucial economic growth mechanism (Schumpeter 1912; Schumpeter 1934; Baumol 1968; Landes 1998; Zoltan 2010 and Premand et al. 2016).