Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders

The main purpose of this study is to provide a deeper understanding of university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture. More specifically, this study attempted to examine how university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture devel...

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Main Authors: Bagheri, Afsaneh, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Krauss, Steven Eric
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Language:English
Published: Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/1/Entrepreneurial%20leadership%20self.pdf
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Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Krauss, Steven Eric
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description The main purpose of this study is to provide a deeper understanding of university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture. More specifically, this study attempted to examine how university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture develop and the sources that shape their perceptions of entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy. This study employed a qualitative research method to investigate university students’ entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy. It involved a sample of fourteen university undergraduate students who were purposefully selected to participate in this research. Analysis of semi-structured interviews indicates that the students perceived themselves as capable of leading a business. Moreover, it is through leading university entrepreneurship projects and teams that the students’ entrepreneurial abilities and in particular, entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy improves. The findings also revealed that entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy is a multi-dimensional construct consisting of different components that shape the students’ overall perceptions toward their abilities to lead new ventures. Students’ entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy originates from different sources including: management self-efficacy, opportunity identification self-efficacy, relationship self-efficacy, tolerance self-efficacy, and learning self-efficacy. Implications of the findings for entrepreneurship education, research and theory development are discussed.
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spelling upm-289612015-08-24T02:14:40Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/ Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders Bagheri, Afsaneh Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Krauss, Steven Eric The main purpose of this study is to provide a deeper understanding of university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture. More specifically, this study attempted to examine how university students’ perceptions toward their capabilities of leading a new venture develop and the sources that shape their perceptions of entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy. This study employed a qualitative research method to investigate university students’ entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy. It involved a sample of fourteen university undergraduate students who were purposefully selected to participate in this research. Analysis of semi-structured interviews indicates that the students perceived themselves as capable of leading a business. Moreover, it is through leading university entrepreneurship projects and teams that the students’ entrepreneurial abilities and in particular, entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy improves. The findings also revealed that entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy is a multi-dimensional construct consisting of different components that shape the students’ overall perceptions toward their abilities to lead new ventures. Students’ entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy originates from different sources including: management self-efficacy, opportunity identification self-efficacy, relationship self-efficacy, tolerance self-efficacy, and learning self-efficacy. Implications of the findings for entrepreneurship education, research and theory development are discussed. Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve 2013-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/1/Entrepreneurial%20leadership%20self.pdf Bagheri, Afsaneh and Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah and Krauss, Steven Eric (2013) Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders. Archives Des Sciences, 66 (1). pp. 690-708. ISSN 1661-464X
spellingShingle Bagheri, Afsaneh
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Krauss, Steven Eric
Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title_full Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title_fullStr Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title_short Entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on Malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
title_sort entrepreneurial leadership self-efficacy: a focus on malaysian student entrepreneurial leaders
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28961/1/Entrepreneurial%20leadership%20self.pdf