Abstract

Entrepreneurs have an essential role to play in bringing positive change and growth to the world’s economy. Entrepreneurship is a necessary aspect of economic growth because of its contribution to people’s welfare through employment opportunities. Likewise, institutions of higher learning offer compulsory entrepreneurship courses for students with the support of government policies to encourage students towards entrepreneurship. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the factors influencing the students’ intentions to become green entrepreneurs. The study uses the extended theory of planned behaviour model (TPB) and entrepreneurial education to develop a theoretical framework. The model has been examined on 350 tourism university students using structural equation modelling. The key findings indicate that Ajzen’s TPB theory of planned behaviour and entrepreneurial education can be extensively expanded to determine sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in developing economies such as India. Attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and entrepreneurial education are antecedents of entrepreneurial intent. Our results have valuable implications for aspiring entrepreneurs, policymakers, and scholars.

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Title
Factors affecting entrepreneurial intention for sustainable tourism among the students of higher education institutions
Author
Mehraj, Danish 1 ; Muhammad Idrees Ul Islam 1 ; Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi 2 ; Basheer, Shakeel 3 ; Baba, Mubashir Majid 4 ; Nissa, Viqar u 1 ; Shah, Mohd Asif 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Department of Management Studies, North Campus University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India 
2  Department of Management Studies, Main campus University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India 
3  Research scholar, Department of hotel management and tourism, Lovely professional university, Jalandhar, India 
4  Department of Management Studies, IUST (State University), Awantipora, J&K, India 
5  Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Kebri Dehar University, Kebri Dehar, Ethiopia; Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India; Research Fellow, INTI International University, Persiaran Perdana BBN Putra Nilai, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia; Adjunct Professor, Islamic University Centre for Scientific Research, Islamic University, Najaf, Iraq 
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Dec 2023
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23311975
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2023.2256484
ProQuest document ID
2902248519
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.