Development and validation of an internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale
Abstract
Purpose Understanding people’s intentions to be an internet entrepreneur is an important issue for educators, academics and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a scale to measure internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach Based on an analysis of 356 responses, a scale of internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy is validated in accordance with established scale development procedures. Findings The internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale has 16 items under three factors (i.e. leadership, technology utilization and internet marketing and e-commerce). The scale demonstrated adequate convergent validity, discriminant validity and criterion-related validity. Nomological validity was established by the positive correlation between the scale and, respectively, internet entrepreneurship knowledge and entrepreneurial intention. Originality/value This study is a pioneering effort to develop and validate a scale to measure internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The results of this study are helpful to researchers in building internet entrepreneurship theories and to educators in assessing and promoting individuals’ internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy and behavior.
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Yi‐Shun Wang, Timmy H. Tseng, Yu-Min Wang, Chun-Wei Chu (2019). Development and validation of an internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale. Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr-07-2018-0294
@article{yishun2019development,
title = {Development and validation of an internet entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale},
author = {Wang, Yi‐Shun and Tseng, Timmy H. and Wang, Yu-Min and Chu, Chun-Wei},
year = {2019},
journal = {Internet Research},
doi = {10.1108/intr-07-2018-0294}
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