An empirical study on entrepreneurial intentions among Japanese university students
by Kosei Fukuda
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), Vol. 21, No. 2, 2014

Abstract: Previous empirical studies on students' entrepreneurial intentions lack the viewpoint of career choice. This paper adopts a framework through which becoming an entrepreneur is the result of selecting from alternative careers by applying a multinomial logit model to survey data on 187 university students. The estimation results indicate that: 1) both entrepreneurial experience and the existence of an admired entrepreneur positively affect entrepreneurial intention; 2) membership in the faculty of commerce positively affects entrepreneurial intention and negatively affects the intention to become a public employee; 3) co-residence with family is negatively related to entrepreneurial intention.

Online publication date: Sat, 31-May-2014

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