Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Özlem ÇETİNKAYA BOZKURT

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Entrepreneurship,Entrepreneurial Intention,Theory of Planned Behavior

Özet: The aim of this study is to find out whether attitudes towards behavior, social norms and perceived behavioral controls, which are evaluated in the frame of planned behavior theory, have an effect on the student’s intentions of being an entrepreneur. The research is carried out on Mehmet Akif Ersoy University students that were training in entrepreneurship. The effects of attitude towards behavior, personal norms and perceived behavior control on students with the intentions of being an entrepreneur are being tested with the formed hypothesis. The primary data is also used with secondary data. The method for collecting primary data was the survey method. In the research, the scales are being used from the studies of Linan & Chen 2007 and Krueger and his colleagues 2000 . The questions of the survey are applied to 202 students who are training in entrepreneurship in Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Zeliha Tolunay Applied Technology and Management School. Statistical analyses have been made with the obtained data by using SPSS 15.0 software programme. Data was analyzed with descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, KMO suitability analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis statistical techniques. As a result, it has been found out that university student’s attitudes towards the behavior and perceived behavioral control has positive effects on their intentions to become an entrepreneur. Social norms however, which were thought to have an influence on the intentions of being an entrepreneur, have not been found significant in terms of statistics

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