Ponencia
Development and validation of an Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ)
Autor/es | Liñán, Francisco |
Coordinador/Director | Kirby, David |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Economía Aplicada I |
Fecha de publicación | 2005 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-06-28 |
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Resumen | Entrepreneurship education quite often concentrates on business-plan and start-up courses. Higher education institutions -such as universities or colleges- do not differ significantly from this general trend. These courses ... Entrepreneurship education quite often concentrates on business-plan and start-up courses. Higher education institutions -such as universities or colleges- do not differ significantly from this general trend. These courses do play a very important role in giving students technical knowledge about entrepreneurship and -through it- they also increase their self-efficacy perceptions. However, the decision to create a firm not only depends on knowing how to do it and feeling able. There are other important elements that also have to be taken into account. According to the literature, the intention to be an entrepreneur would be the single best predictor of actual firm-creation behaviour. In this sense, an entrepreneur would make his decision based on three elements: his personal preference or attraction towards entrepreneurship; the perceived social valuation of that career option; and, thirdly, his perceived feasibility (self-efficacy perceptions). Unfortunately, there is not a validated instrument to measure abilities, attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship. In this sense, we have developed an Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ), based on an integration of psychology and entrepreneurship literature, as well as previous empirical research in this field. These items are designed as likert-type scales. It also includes other items about knowledge of the entrepreneurial world, family background, labour experience and business objectives, to test their relationships with entrepreneurial intention. This EIQ has been recently validated on a sample of 354 last-year university students of business and economics. In this paper we describe the main characteristics and psychometric properties of the EIQ. Traditional reliability measures, as Cronbach’s α, confirm that items used in each construct are adequate. Besides, general results strongly support the validity of the entrepreneurial intention model. Therefore, there would be a solid base for designing and implementing entrepreneurship courses trying to affect personal preferences and perceived social valuation of entrepreneurship. Only for those people that already show a sufficiently high level of these features, a business-plan course would achieve all its potential to increase entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the intention to become an entrepreneur. |
Cita | Liñán, F. (2005). Development and validation of an Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ). En 15th Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training Conference, Guildford. |
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