Entrepreneurial Intentions among Higher Education Students in Finland and Spain: Developing and Piloting a Survey Instrument
Entrepreneurial Intentions among Higher Education Students in Finland and Spain: Developing and Piloting a Survey Instrument
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芬兰和西班牙高等教育学生的创业意向：开发和试点调查工具
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10.4018/ijisss.2013100101
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2013
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Maria Ripolles
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作者：
Elina Varamaki;E. Tornikoski;Sanna Joensuu;K. Ristimäki;Andreu Blesa;Maria Ripolles
本文的目的是介绍一项试点研究的结果，在这项研究中，开发和测试了新的工具，以衡量在多国背景下创业意图的形成。开发的工具主要基于阿杰森1991年的计划行为理论。在先导研究中，作者还关注了两个问题，即创业意向水平是否随来源国的不同而不同，创业意向的三个前置因素的相对重要性是否随来源国的不同而不同，以及背景变量是否对不同国家的创业意向的形成产生类似的影响。这项试点研究的经验背景来自两所高等教育机构，一所在芬兰，一所在西班牙，涉及到它们本科课程的一年级学生。在文章的最后，作者将讨论他们的先导研究的经验观察的含义。
The purpose of this article is to present the results of a pilot study in which the new instrument was developed and tested to measure the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in multi-country context. The developed instrument was largely based on the Theory of Planned Behavior Ajzen 1991. In the pilot study, the authors were also paying attention to two issues, namely i whether the level of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, ii whether the relative importance of the three antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions varies as a function of country of origin, and iii whether the background variables exercise similar effects on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions in different countries. The empirical context of the pilot study is made of two higher education institutions one in Finland, one in Spain and concerns their first-year students at undergraduate programs. In the end of this paper, the authors will discuss the implications of the empirical observations of their pilot study.