Title: Entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial intention - the mediating role of personal growth initiative

Authors: Lata Bajpai Singh; Syed Asif Mehdi; Anubha Vashisht; Priya Grover

Addresses: Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, UP, India ' Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, UP, India ' Sharda University, Greater Noida, India ' Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune, India

Abstract: In the present study, researchers expect to find out whether and how entrepreneurial learning influences respondents' future entrepreneurial intentions both directly and indirectly. Although prior studies have empirically explored the direct effect, but the role of personal growth initiative as a mediator has never been examined in the past studies. Therefore, the present study investigates the mediating influence of personal growth initiative on the link among entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial intention. The empirical study is based on 256 respondents from the different universities located in Delhi-NCR. The study's findings demonstrated a substantial positive correlation between all constructs, i.e., entrepreneurial learning, personal growth initiative, and entrepreneurial intention, and also confirmed the mediating effect of personal growth initiative between entrepreneurial learning and intention. The study's findings will be valuable to academic universities across the world, where the academicians are involved in transferring entrepreneurial learning for improving entrepreneurial intention among the students.

Keywords: entrepreneurial learning; entrepreneurial intention; personal growth initiative; PGI; entrepreneurship development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2025.147670

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2025 Vol.37 No.4, pp.448 - 465

Received: 19 Jul 2021
Accepted: 02 Jul 2022
Published online: 25 Jul 2025 *

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