Paper Info
Title
Entrepreneurial intentions in the field of IT: The role of gender typed personality and entrepreneurship education.
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is considered as a major motor behind economic development and innovation. Tertiary students are one step away from taking serious career decisions and as a result, a large number of articles try to decipher the mechanisms behind the development of their entrepreneurial intentions. Personality traits, factors of the social environment and the role of entrepreneurship education are among the factors investigated by previous research. However, entrepreneurial intentions in the field of Information Technology remain understudied. In this research drawing from gender schemas theory and the theory of planned behavior, we investigate the impact of gender typed personality and social norms in conjunction with the role of entrepreneurial education. The sample consists of tertiary Information Technology students. In contrast to previous research, social norms have a significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions, in comparison to entrepreneurial education which has a marginally weaker effect. Additionally, certain personality traits stereotypically associated with the masculinity have a major predicting ability on these intentions. The findings have valuable implications for educators and entrepreneurship course designers.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
entrepreneurial intention,gender typing,sex role orientation,entrepreneurial education,social norm,information technology
Field
DocType
ISSN
Social psychology,Big Five personality traits,Entrepreneurship,Masculinity,Knowledge management,Norm (social),Theory of planned behavior,Gender typing,Engineering,Schema (psychology),Personality
Conference
2165-9567
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ioannis Sitaridis101.01
Fotis Kitsios2238.71