ResearchArticle
Drivers of Student Entrepreneurial Intention and the Moderating
Role of Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from an
Indian University
SamreenAkhtar ,
1
MansourSalehAlbarrak ,
1
AlamAhmad ,
1
HafizWasimAkram ,
2
and Mohammad Daoud Ciddikie
3
1
Department of Finance, College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, Saudi Electronic University,
Al Faisaliyah, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar University,
Salalah, Oman
3
School of Business Studies, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Correspondence should be addressed to Samreen Akhtar; s.akhtar@seu.edu.sa
Received 12 November 2021; Revised 21 January 2022; Accepted 2 February 2022; Published 18 March 2022
Academic Editor: Akbar Ali
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is study is an effort for measuring the entrepreneurial orientation of the students and its linkage with their entrepreneurial
intention. e study is based on entrepreneurial dimensions such as innovativeness, need for achievements, opportunity rec-
ognition,risk-takingpropensities,andentrepreneurshipeducation.estudyalsousedentrepreneurshipeducationandgenderas
moderating variables. A 5-point Likert-type scale was designed by adapting the Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation mea-
surement scale and Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ). e authors postulated 7 hypotheses. Data analysis confirmed
that underlying entrepreneurial dimensions have a positive correlation with students’ entrepreneurial intention. is paper
concludes that entrepreneurial dimensions and proper delivery of entrepreneurship education will help the students in
transforming their entrepreneurial intention into actual entrepreneurial action.
1. Introduction
e study is an attempt to present entrepreneurial orien-
tation (EO) of the students and its linkage with their en-
trepreneurial intention (EI) by using some of the most
important and widely accepted entrepreneurial dimensions
(EDs) [1], namely, innovativeness (INV), need for
achievements (NFA), opportunity recognition (OR), risk-
taking propensities (RTP), and entrepreneurship education
(EE). e study also used the entrepreneurship education
and gender (GEN) to find out whether these factors mod-
erate the relationships of entrepreneurial dimensions and
entrepreneurial intention of the students (Figure 1) [2].
It is a well-established fact that the economies of almost
all countries are experiencing different levels of economic
slowdown. People are losing their jobs and businesses and
the employment rate is touching its new bottom in many
developing and developed countries [3]. In this situation,
when the new jobs are not there in the market for the
students who are graduating from their universities, it be-
comes imperative to understand the entrepreneurial ori-
entation and intent of the students. Entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurial intention among the younger generation
have always been the subject of great interest. But, lately, the
researchers are also exploring different angles and scenarios
involving young potential entrepreneurs [4].
Entrepreneurs are the stewards who primarily actively
participate in the economic development of the country by
employing and executing the plans of their entrepreneurial
ventures [2]. With the growth in entrepreneurship, pros-
perity in the form of newly generated employment, inno-
vative products, and businesses are also achieved. However,
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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2022, Article ID 6767580, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6767580