Entrepreneurship education versus management students' entrepreneurial intentions. A PLS-SEM approach

This paper analyses the effect of students' entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions in Morocco. The developed model suggests that entrepreneurial intention is supposed to depend on four variables, specifically: entrepreneurship education, attitude towards entrepreneurship, perceived social norms and perceived entrepreneurial capacity. We are using structural equation modeling (SEM-PLS) to test the proposed model, based on a sample of 98 management students from the Laayoune higher School of Technology. The findings indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between management student's entrepreneurship education, attitude towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention. As a result, universities are invited to offer training modules in entrepreneurship in order to improve the level of students' entrepreneurial intent.

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The study found a significant relationship between entrepreneurship education, attitude towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention among management students. Universities are encouraged to provide more entrepreneurship training to improve students' entrepreneurial intent levels.