What drives university engineering students to become entrepreneurs? Finding different recipes using a configuration approach. (4th March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rippa, Pierluigi; Ferruzzi, Gabriella; Holienka, Marian; Capaldo, Guido; Coduras, Alicia
• Is Part Of: Journal of small business management. Volume 61:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 353
• Page End: 383
• Publication Date: 2023-03-04
• Subjects: Entrepreneurial intention -- qualitative comparative analysis -- GUESSS; Small business -- Management -- Periodicals; 658.022
• DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2020.1790291
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0047-2778

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This research aims to investigate how combinations of factors lead to the entrepreneurial intention and propensity of engineering university students. The study proposes the application of a configuration approach (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) with a sample of 10, 008 engineering students from 43 universities in 10 European countries. The findings show that entrepreneurial intention and propensity do not depend only on a single driver but on the interplay of multiple factors. The intensity of entrepreneurship education is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Different recipes brought to light in the analysis belong to similar socioeconomic contexts.