Finance

Business

Personality

Sample (material)

Big Five personality traits

Entrepreneurship education

Entrepreneurial education

Theory of planned behavior

Self-efficacy

Management

Psychology

Economics

Set (abstract data type)

Control (management)

Chemistry

Programming language

Computer science

Entrepreneurship

Chromatography

Social psychology

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

This article aims to assess how personality traits, training and entrepreneurial education, social recognition, self-efficacy and entrepreneurial attitude influence entrepreneurial intention to create a new venture among university students in Portugal and Brazil. The additional effects of gender, country of origin, and family background are also evaluated. A conceptual framework based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour is proposed considering a set of hypotheses, which were tested via a survey with a cross-section design applied to a sample of 600 university students from both countries. The results led to the conclusion that personality traits, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude are strong predictors of entrepreneurial intention and that the effects of social recognition and country of origin are not significant.

Determinant factors of entrepreneurial intention among university students in Brazil and Portugal