The Role of Internship and Business Incubation Programs in Forming Entrepreneurial Intentions: an Empirical Analysis from Pakistan

Purpose: Entrepreneurship is a vital tool for the economic development of any country. As a fieldof research, entrepreneurship has become a diversified area of study. A plethora of studies appearedthat investigate the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention, most of them focus on personalitytraits...

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Published inJournal of Management and Business Administration Central Europe Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 97 - 113
Main Authors Zreen, Aneeqa, Farrukh, Muhammad, Nazar, Nida, Khalid, Rimsha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego 01.06.2019
Kozminski University
Sciendo
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Business Economy / Management
business incubators
entrepreneurial intentions
Human Resources in Economy
internship
M13
entrepreneurial intentions
internship
business incubators
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Summary:Purpose: Entrepreneurship is a vital tool for the economic development of any country. As a fieldof research, entrepreneurship has become a diversified area of study. A plethora of studies appearedthat investigate the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention, most of them focus on personalitytraits and other psychological factors. However, the studies focus less on practical entrepreneurialeducation such as internship and business incubation. Thus, the current study seeks to fill thisgap by empirically investigating the impact of business incubators and internship programs onstudent’s entrepreneurial intention in the Pakistani context.Methodology: The authors collected data through a structured questionnaire from students andran partial least square structural equation modeling technique by SmartPLS software.Findings: The results show that business incubators and internship programs have a strong andpositive statistically significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions.Implication: The current study can help policy-makers get a better insight on entrepreneurship soas to improve its innovation, proactivity, and risk-taking ability and how these factors can amendthe lack of entrepreneurial awareness among business students.
ISSN:2450-7814
2450-8829
DOI:10.7206/jmba.ce.2450-7814.255