Do curricular and extracurricular activities impact entrepreneurial intention and implementation among hospitality and tourism students? The role of attitude, self-efficacy and uncertainty avoidance

Abstract

By theorizing Entrepreneurship education as curricular (CA) and extracurricular activities (ECA), this research attempts to offer a more nuanced understanding into the underlying mechanisms on how these educational attributes influence hospitality & tourism (H&T) student’s entrepreneurial intention (EI). Based on a convenience sample of 392 H&T students, the data were assessed using partial least squares-structural equation modeling. The results reveal full mediation of entrepreneurial attitude (EA) and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) between CA, ECA and EI. Interestingly, CA yields a stronger impact on EA than ESE whereas ECA impact relatively stronger on ESE than EA. Moreover, this research also tries to fill the intention-behaviour gap by including entrepreneurship implementation intention (EII) as a proxy to entrepreneurship behaviour and found that uncertainty avoidance negatively moderates the EI-EII relationship. Lastly, the research offers several implications for the theory, practice, and research on entrepreneurship education.

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