Modelling Entrepreneurial Intentions and Attitudes towards Business Creation among Emirati Students Using Bayesian Networks

dc.contributor.authorSmail, Linda
dc.contributor.authorAlawad, Mouawiya
dc.contributor.authorAbaza, Wasseem
dc.contributor.authorKamalov, Firuz
dc.contributor.authorAlawadhi, Hamdah
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-21T12:18:50Z
dc.date.available2023-02-21T12:18:50Z
dc.date.copyright© 2022
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractPURPOSE: 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.sponsorshipDEWA Research and Development Center Emirates NBD University of Sharjah Economic Research Forum
dc.identifier.citationSmail, 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.issn20425961
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.47556/J.WJEMSD.18.5.2022.7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/752
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Association for Sustainable Development
dc.relationAuthors 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.ispartofseriesWorld Association for Sustainable Development; Volume 18, Issue 5
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
dc.rights.holderCopyright : © 2022 by all the authors of the article above.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAttitudes
dc.subjectBayesian Network
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship
dc.subjectIntention
dc.subjectSelf-Efficacy
dc.subjectSubjective Norms
dc.titleModelling Entrepreneurial Intentions and Attitudes towards Business Creation among Emirati Students Using Bayesian Networks
dc.typeArticle

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