Effects of Social Values on the Entrepreneurial Intention
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business, economicsAbstract
Conceptually based on Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behavior, the study examined relationships among societal entrepreneurship attitude, democratic rights, criticism of entrepreneurial discourse, social justice, and entrepreneurial intention in young adults in the Eastern European part of the Russian Federation. Study revealed that the entrepreneurship attitude and social justice were strongly positively related to the intention to become an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship intention existed regardless of the presence of democratic rights and absence of criticism of entrepreneurship because college and university students saw the entrepreneurship as a solution to some societal problems and a means to support themselves and their families.
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