University Departments and Self-Employment Intentions of Business Students: A Cross-Level Analysis
42 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2011
Date Written: November 3, 2011
Abstract
This study examines how characteristics of university departments impact students’ self-employment intentions. We argue that four organizational-level factors (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship support programs, industry ties, and research orientation) increase such intentions. Using a dataset of 1,530 business students and 132 professors at 25 university departments, this study shows that entrepreneurship education and industry ties are related to self-employment intentions only for the males in our sample. A negative effect of the department’s research orientation was found. Our study suggests that the organizational context plays an important, but gender-specific role in shaping future entrepreneurs. Implications of our findings are discussed.
Keywords: academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions, multilevel modeling, gender, entrepreneurship education
JEL Classification: I21, I28, J23, M13
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