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INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 261-283Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-008-0103-2
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Gender; Social norms; Self-efficacy; Attitude; Entrepreneurial intention
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There is general agreement in previous research, drawing on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, that attitudes towards entrepreneurship are determining factors on entrepreneurial intention and gender also seems to play a key role. This study supports the core entrepreneurial intention model and focuses on the role of gender in this process, showing that men are more likely to think about creating a firm than being determined to do it. However, of those men, the ones who perceive higher congruence between masculine and entrepreneurial attributes are more likely to have a firm entrepreneurial intention. Also, both men and women with a firm entrepreneurial intention perceive successful entrepreneurs to have feminine attributes. This, together with the characteristics of the sample, may explain the lack of a gender difference in entrepreneurial intention.
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