Title: Entrepreneurial intention among Yemeni students beyond business schools: mediation and moderation approaches

Authors: Mugaahed Abdu Kaid Saleh; Manjunath K. Rajappa; Mohammed Mostafa Mohammed Qaied

Addresses: Department of Management and Business Administration, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, 577451, India ' Department of Management and Business Administration, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, 577451, India ' Department of Commerce, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, 577451, India

Abstract: Entrepreneurial intention (EI) among students has been widely investigated by many researchers and well presented in earlier literatures, however, EI among students beyond business schools is not equally researched. This study aims to investigate attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control as mediators in the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial knowledge/entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and the moderation of gender on the same among students beyond business schools in Yemen. This study is a cross-sectional study, which relies on data compiled from 486 college students using random sampling and applying PLS-SEM for data analysis. The results unveil self-efficacy as the least influential factor on entrepreneurial intention. The results also show partial mediation of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control on the relationship between entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial intention, but not with entrepreneurial self-efficacy, while no moderation of gender is found on any of the relationship of variables in the model. This research adds to the literature by measuring entrepreneurial intention among students beyond business schools in underdeveloped economy and investigating the entrepreneurial antecedents as mediators between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial knowledge/self-efficacy.

Keywords: entrepreneurial intention; attitudes; subjective norms; behaviour; students; business schools; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; entrepreneurial knowledge.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2024.135390

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.83 - 106

Received: 21 Nov 2021
Accepted: 05 Nov 2022
Published online: 08 Dec 2023 *