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Business start-up intentions among technical graduates in Tanzania the moderating effect of entrepreneurship education

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dc.contributor.author Nzilano, Kelvin L.
dc.contributor.author Ndyetabula, Daniel W.
dc.contributor.author Tundui, Hawa P.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-16T06:52:42Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-16T06:52:42Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Nzilano, K. L., Ndyetabula, D. W. & Tundui, H. P. (2022). Business start-up intentions among technical graduates in Tanzania: The moderating effect of entrepreneurship education. East Africa Journal of Social and Applied Sciences, 4(1), 1-18 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2714-2051
dc.identifier.issn 0856-9681
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/432
dc.description Full articles of this journal are available at: https://journals.mocu.ac.tz/index.php/eaj-sas en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper examines the influence of entrepreneurship education on technical graduates’ business start-up intentions. Specifically, it assesses the antecedents of business start-up intentions and how entrepreneurship education moderates the effect of attitudes towards business start-ups, societal-subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control on business start-up intentions. Data for this study were collected from 391 technical graduates who graduated between 2012 and 2017 from technical colleges and universities who lived in Dar es Salaam during data collection. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics and Partial Least Squares Path Modelling (PLS-PM). The findings indicate that perceived behavioural control (52.1%) was the strongest predictor of business start-up intentions, followed by attitude towards business start-up (28.9%), and societal-subjective norms (11.5%). Moreover, entrepreneurship education moderated the effect of attitudes towards business start-ups and perceived behaviour on business start-up intentions but not subjective norms. Only 30.2% of technical graduates’ intentions translated into actual business start-ups. Limited start-up funds, perceived high taxes, unfriendly regulatory frameworks, and little awareness of business support services constrained the potential of graduates’ intentions to translate into actual business start-ups. Alongside government efforts to improve the business start-up ecosystem, technical colleges and universities should align entrepreneurship courses with experiential pedagogies to enhance the attitudes of students towards business start-ups and perceived behavioural control as critical antecedents for business start-ups upon graduation. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher East Africa Journal of Social and Applied Sciences (EAJ-SAS) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 4;No. 1
dc.subject Business en_US
dc.subject Moderating en_US
dc.subject Entrepreneurship en_US
dc.subject Education en_US
dc.subject Intentions en_US
dc.title Business start-up intentions among technical graduates in Tanzania the moderating effect of entrepreneurship education en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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