Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2022, 25(2):52-66 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2022.008928

Finding the linkage between Entrepreneurial Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intention of Students’: An Attestation from Kashmir, North India

Priyanka Chadha, Nisha Devi, Gitanjali Upadhaya
Department of HPKVBS, SCMS, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, H.P.

The focus of every developing nation is to make their people self-reliant by adopting entrepreneurship. In developed economies, much research has already been done to study the interplay between entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intention of students. According to a report published in 2021 by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, the total population of India is 1.3 billion which is second-most in the world. But the positive sign is that the average age of the Indian population is 29 years which shows that India has the youngest population globally. This population will create a “demographic dividend” in the long run. Hence, this is the right time to infuse the spirit of entrepreneurship into the young blood. Therefore, the current study is an attempt to empirically scrutinize the role played by entrepreneurial competencies in the infusion of entrepreneurial intention among students. In the present study, a cross-sectional research design has been used. The sample for the study was management students. Data has been collected through web questionnaires. 193 filled questionnaires were found suitable for the informationcollection and to analyze the data structural equation modeling has been used. Findings of the study have depicted that opportunity competency, relationship competency, risk-taking competency, and strategic competency have significantly contributed to the students’ entrepreneurial intention. Whereas other competencies like conceptual competency, learning competency, and organizing competency did not show any significant contribution to the entrepreneurial intention of students.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial competencies, Entrepreneurial intention

Accepted: November 29, 2022; Published: November 30, 2022  Show citation

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Chadha, P., Devi, N., & Upadhaya, G. (2022). Finding the linkage between Entrepreneurial Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intention of Students’: An Attestation from Kashmir, North India. Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, 25(2), 52-66. doi: 10.32725/acta.2022.008
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