Relationship between role models and entrepreneurial intentions

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI VIETNAM JAPAN UNIVERSITY - HOANG DUC TRUNG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROLE MODELS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS MASTER’S THESIS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Hanoi, 2020 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI VIETNAM JAPAN UNIVERSITY - HOANG DUC TRUNG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROLE MODELS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS MAJOR: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CODE: 8340101.1 RESEARCH SUPERVISORS: Assoc Prof Dr VU ANH DUNG Assoc Prof Dr KODO YOKOZAWA Hanoi, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABSTRACT ABBREVIATION LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research background 1.1.1Practical motivation 1.1.2Theoretical motivatio 1.2 Subject and scope of research 1.2.1Subject of research 1.2.2Scope of research 1.3 Research objective CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Theoretical backgrou 2.1.1Entrepreneurship 2.1.2Entrepreneurial inten 2.1.3Entrepreneurial Self- 2.1.4Role model 2.2 Previous related resea 2.2.1Mediating role of ES 2.2.2Moderators of role m i 2.3 Research gap 11 2.4 Research questions 12 2.5 Hypotheses 12 2.6 Research model 14 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 16 3.1 Procedure 16 3.2 Data collection 17 3.3 Measurements 17 CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS .19 4.1 Descriptive statistics 19 4.2 Analysis 19 4.2.1 Reliability test 19 4.2.2 Exploratory factor analysis 20 4.2.3 Regression 23 CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION 28 5.1 Discussion 28 5.2 Theoretical and practical implications 30 5.2.1 Theoretical implications 30 5.2.2 Practical implications 31 5.3 Limitations and directions for future researches 32 REFERENCES 33 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisors – Associate Prof Dr Vu Anh Dung and Associate Prof Dr Kodo Yokozawa for generous and careful guidance I would also like to thank Mr Nguyen Anh Hao and Ms Pham Thi Xuan Thoa for their enthusiastic support during my research A very special thanks go to MBA program’s teachers and staff, my friends, and my family for great companion and encouragement iii ABSTRACT A considerable amount of studies on the influence of role models on entrepreneurial intentions have been conducted However, the specific mechanism by which role models exercise such influence is not yet fully discovered This paper attempts to explore such mechanism, with the possible mediating effect from entrepreneurial selfefficacy, and expected moderating effect from perceived similarity and previous entrepreneurial experience The author used quantitative method with a sample of 205 undergraduate business-majored students of Foreign Trade University in Vietnam The results show that role models positively impact students’ entrepreneurial intentions, both directly and indirectly via the mediator which is entrepreneurial self-efficacy Contrary to the expectations, perceived similarity and previous entrepreneurial experience appear to have no significant moderating impact on how role models alter respondents’ self-evaluation of their business-related competency This research contributes to the literatures regarding antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions, backing up the idea that entrepreneurial self-efficacy could be an efficient mediating variable in models related to entrepreneurial intentions Keywords: entrepreneurial intentions, role models, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, perceived similarity, previous entrepreneurial experience iv ABBREVIATION EI Entrepreneurial Intention ESE Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy PEE Previous Entrepreneurial Experience PS Perceived Similarity RM Role Model v LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1: Previous researches related to mediating role of ESE .9 Table 4.1: Cronbach’s Alpha Test results 20 Table 4.2: KMO and Barlett’s Test results 20 Table 4.3: Total Variance Explained 21 Table 4.4: Rotated Component Matrix 21 Table 4.5: Correlations 22 Table 4.6: Result of hypothesis testing 27 vi LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Entrepreneurial Intention Rates in 2017 Figure 2.1: Theory of Planned Behavior Figure 2.2: Entrepreneurial Intention Model Figure 2.3: Determinants of ESE Figure 2.4: Proposed research framework 14 Figure 3.1: Mediation analysis by PROCESS Macro 16 Figure 4.1: Gender ratio 19 Figure 4.2: Model of mediating effect 23 Figure 4.3: RM’s impact over ESE 24 Figure 4.4: RM and ESE’s impacts over EI 24 Figure 4.5: RM’s total, direct, and indirect impact over EI 25 Figure 4.6: Result for model of mediating effect 25 Figure 4.7: Moderate effect of PS 26 Figure 4.8: Moderating effect of PEE 26 Figure 4.9: Result for both mediating and moderating effect 27 Figure 5.1: Role Models’ impact on individual’s ESE in relation with amount of time working together 30 Figure 5.2: Role Models’ impact on individual’s EDE in relation with Role Models’ successfulness 30 vii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research background 1.1.1 Practical motivation Entrepreneurship is important to the growth of society in the sense that it helps to create jobs and promote innovation (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000) Sobel and King (2008) have also shown that entrepreneurship rate is directly proportional to economic growth rate Since the turning of the century, entrepreneurship has proved to be one of the stabilizer of economies’ financial states (Bohlmann, Rauch, & Zacher, 2017) Not only influential in terms of finance or economics, entrepreneurship in general, and one of its branches called social entrepreneurship in particular, contribute greatly to social wellbeing by mobilizing social resources to resolve social issues (Beckmann, 2012) Acknowledging that entrepreneurship would be a crucial engine driving the country forwards, Vietnam has applied various policies and initiatives to promote entrepreneurial spirit, especially among younger generations (Nguyen & Gillian, 2016) However, despite the efforts, it appears that entrepreneurship movement in Vietnam is not yet as strong as it is expected to be As can be observed from the above Figure 1.1 below, Vietnam’s Entrepreneurial Intention Rate is lower than the average rate of Asia 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Liu, Ma, and Li (2019) examine the moderating effect of role model’s successfulness and the distance between subjects and role models The result shows that the more successful role models are,... conducted by role models (Morgenroth, Ryan, & Peters, 2015) That is to say, entrepreneurial experience when individuals can work with role models could amplify the impact link between role models and. .. intention H4: Role models has indirect positive impact on Entrepreneurial Intention H5: Previous Entrepreneurial Experience has negative impact on the relationship between Role Model and Entrepreneurial