Entrepreneurial Intentions During COVID-19: Case Study in Spanish and Colombian University Students

• Francisco Javier Maza Ávila ^[1] ; Macarena Pérez Suárez ^[2] ; Isadora Sánchez Torné ^[3]
  1. [1] Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Cartagena (Colombia)
  2. [2] Department of Applied Economics III, Universidad of Sevilla
  3. [3] Department of Applied Economics Ill, Universidad of Sevilla

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• Localización: Trends in Innovation and Interdisciplinary Knowledge across Educational Settings / coord. por Rosabel Martínez Roig, Alejandro Armellini, 2024, ISBN 978-3-631-90499-2, págs. 191-212
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim was to ascertain the entrepreneurial intention (EI) during COVID- 19 pandemic, based on a comparative analysis of the attitudes (AE), behaviours (PBC), and entrepreneurial skills (EC) of economics and business students. For this purpose, a structured questionnaire was applied to a representative sample of students from two public universities in two dissimilar economies, following the methodological framework proposed by Linan and Chen (2009), a 95 % confidence level and a 4.66 % margin of error. Two significant differences in the causal effect were found between PBC and university, which were EI Social Valuation (SV) and university EC during COVID-19. Five significant analogies were observed demonstrating a causal effect between AE and university EI; Social Norm (SN) and university PBC; SN and university AE; SV and university PBC and, between EC and university EI during COVID-19. As well as, there is no causal effect between SN and university EI and between SV and university EI during COVID-19. These divergences and analogies proved that there are variations between the models of university EI in Colombia and Spain during COVID-19, despite the fact that the pandemic situation does not condition university EI.