Article: The instrumentality of teaching pedagogies in maturing entrepreneurial intentions among women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia Journal: International Journal of Business Performance Management (IJBPM) 2024 Vol.25 No.1 pp.25 - 49 Abstract: The global diffusion of entrepreneurship education necessitates a better understanding of what is being taught, why, how, and to whom it is taught. Despite enormous empirical evidence on the role of entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies in maturing students' entrepreneurial skills and behaviours, it is important to examine how particular teaching pedagogies may help in developing and exploiting university students' entrepreneurial potentials in Saudi Arabia, where the government is investing tremendous resources to promote entrepreneurial activities, yet entrepreneurship education is the weakest entrepreneurial ecosystem factor. Based on a PLS-based SEM model involving 825 female students from Saudi universities, a positive association between different entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies has been found in maturing entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, as well as enhancing perceived behavioural control. The study found a significantly positive role of these three determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among female students in Saudi universities. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: The instrumentality of teaching pedagogies in maturing entrepreneurial intentions among women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia

Authors: Saeed Badghish; Muhammad Zafar Yaqub; Imran Ali; Murad Ali; Ali Malik

Addresses: Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' Department of Leadership and HRM, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, City Campus East, NE1 8ST, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ' Department of Leadership and HRM, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, City Campus East, NE1 8ST, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ' Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA), Qatar Financial Centre Tower 2, Al Wahda St, West Bay, Qatar

Abstract: The global diffusion of entrepreneurship education necessitates a better understanding of what is being taught, why, how, and to whom it is taught. Despite enormous empirical evidence on the role of entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies in maturing students' entrepreneurial skills and behaviours, it is important to examine how particular teaching pedagogies may help in developing and exploiting university students' entrepreneurial potentials in Saudi Arabia, where the government is investing tremendous resources to promote entrepreneurial activities, yet entrepreneurship education is the weakest entrepreneurial ecosystem factor. Based on a PLS-based SEM model involving 825 female students from Saudi universities, a positive association between different entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies has been found in maturing entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, as well as enhancing perceived behavioural control. The study found a significantly positive role of these three determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among female students in Saudi universities.

Keywords: entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies; venture creation; entrepreneurial intentions; Vision 2030; Saudi Arabia; partial least squares; PLS; structure equation modelling; SEM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2024.135149

International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2024 Vol.25 No.1, pp.25 - 49

Received: 20 Aug 2022
Accepted: 15 Sep 2022
Published online: 01 Dec 2023 *

Title: The instrumentality of teaching pedagogies in maturing entrepreneurial intentions among women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia

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