Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
3rd World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, WOCTINE 2019, İstanbul, Türkiye, 21 - 23 Haziran 2019, cilt.158, ss.885-890
Entrepreneurship has fast acquired significance due to global competition, technological change and the development of the market economy. It has thus created impetus for scholars to do research into its antecedents. In the past, entrepreneurship was a mechanism whereby one person established his/her own business venture using his/her own capital. However, this perception of entrepreneurship has since changed. Why do some people prefer to set up their own business, but not others? This question has led us to investigate the factors that generate entrepreneurial intention, since it is the most significant predictor of entrepreneurial behavior and a key element to understanding the process of establishing new business ventures. There is a variety of factors which lead to entrepreneurial intention, including personal or psychological, environmental, cognitive and demographic ones. In the past, researchers focused on internal-psychological and external-environmental factors; however, recently cognitive factors have also gained importance. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial intention. In addition, personal attitude, which is one of the three motivational antecedents of Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior, figured in the study as a cognitive factor. This allows a better understanding of the factors that lead to entrepreneurial intention.Very few studies of entrepreneurial intention involve a sampling of nascent entrepreneurs; most of the study subjects are university students. This paper, on the other hand, aims to create a more accurate understanding of the factors that lead to entrepreneurial intention by studying the responses of actual entrepreneurs rather than students.