Modelling Entrepreneurial Intentions and Attitudes towards Business Creation among Emirati Students Using Bayesian Networks
dc.contributor.author | Smail, Linda | |
dc.contributor.author | Alawad, Mouawiya | |
dc.contributor.author | Abaza, Wasseem | |
dc.contributor.author | Kamalov, Firuz | |
dc.contributor.author | Alawadhi, Hamdah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-21T12:18:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-21T12:18:50Z | |
dc.date.copyright | © 2022 | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.description.abstract | PURPOSE: Entrepreneurial intentions (EI) have been a major focus of research studied using generic models. This paper will use Bayesian Networks (BN) to model entrepreneurial intentions as they provide an advantage over classical methods. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional study was conducted among a random sample of 324 Emirati University students by implementing the Unsupervised Structural Learning algorithm to build the model. FINDINGS: Entrepreneurial intentions are highly affected by attitude, self-efficacy, subjective norms, and opportunity feasibility, while obstacles and university opportunity feasibility are the variables whose influence on entrepreneurial intention is less. ORIGINALITY: This study looked at entrepreneurship intention and attitudes among students who are not yet entrepreneurs using Bayesian Networks as a new technique to discover how this can affect students’ intention in starting a business. Conclusions stem from the existing Emirati social construct (people-centric society of the Arab world, rather than system-centric society of the Western world). This has created value-added contributions of the paper to the research questions. © 2022 by all the authors of the article above. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | DEWA Research and Development Center Emirates NBD University of Sharjah Economic Research Forum | |
dc.identifier.citation | Smail, L., Alawad, M., Abaza, W., Kamalov, F., & Alawadhi, H. (2022). Modelling entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes towards business creation among emirati students using bayesian networks. World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 18(5), 675-689. https://doi.org/10.47556/J.WJEMSD.18.5.2022.7 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 20425961 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.47556/J.WJEMSD.18.5.2022.7 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/752 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | World Association for Sustainable Development | |
dc.relation | Authors Affiliations : Smail, L., Zayed University, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Alawad, M., Zayed University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Abaza, W., Zayed University, College of Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Kamalov, F., Canadian University Dubai, Department of Electrical Engineering, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Alawadhi, H., Zayed University, College of Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | World Association for Sustainable Development; Volume 18, Issue 5 | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright : © 2022 by all the authors of the article above. | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Attitudes | |
dc.subject | Bayesian Network | |
dc.subject | Entrepreneurship | |
dc.subject | Intention | |
dc.subject | Self-Efficacy | |
dc.subject | Subjective Norms | |
dc.title | Modelling Entrepreneurial Intentions and Attitudes towards Business Creation among Emirati Students Using Bayesian Networks | |
dc.type | Article |
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