Role of university context in student entrepreneurial Intentions development: cross-country study

Abstract

The main purpose of the current master thesis is to investigate the role of the university context in the formation of the students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The study explores whether there is a direct influence of university context on the student entrepreneurial intentions apart from the influence of the elements of the Theory of Planned Behavior; what is the role of different constituents of the university context in the development of the student entrepreneurial intentions right after and in five years after graduation; and what factor play the most influential role in the development of the student entrepreneurial intentions. The given thesis is based on Theory of Planned Behavior and Resource-Based view. The results of correlation- logistic regression analysis showed that in the short-term, social capital was positively associated with student entrepreneurial intentions whereas human capital and financial capital were positively associated with student entrepreneurial intentions in the long-term period. It was identified that financial capital was the most influential factor of the university context.