Teaching for creativity and entrepreneurial intentions: an empirical study
Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
ISSN: 2053-4604
Article publication date: 27 December 2021
Issue publication date: 5 July 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the structural relationships between pedagogy methods, creativity and entrepreneurial intentions. This study theorizes that work-integrated and active learning methods positively influence personal creativity, which in turn positively influences entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, entrepreneurial inspiration moderates the impact of creativity on entrepreneurial intentions.
Design/methodology/approach
A sample of 701 valid questionnaires from university students is used to investigate the proposed research model empirically. As the methodological approach, structural equation modelling with multigroup analysis is used.
Findings
The statistical results confirm the positive impacts of work-integrated and active learning methods on individual perceived creativity and of creativity on entrepreneurial intentions. Further, inspiration towards entrepreneurship moderates the link between individual creativity and entrepreneurial intentions.
Originality/value
This research fills the gap in the realm of examining the structural relationship among learning methods, creativity and entrepreneurial intentions in an emerging economy context. Specifically, this study confirms experiential teaching methods as important predictors of the development of students’ creativity capability and the moderating role of entrepreneurial inspiration in the relationship between perceived creativity and entrepreneurial intention. These results add to the academic literature on entrepreneurial intentions in emerging economies and provide new insights into how universities in emerging economies can foster the entrepreneurial intentions of their students.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: This research is funded by National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Ethics statement: Since this was a non-experimental, voluntary survey, there were no ethical issues associated with this survey. The responses were fully anonymous and the topic of the survey was far from sensitive.
Declaration of competing interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Data availability statement: Data can be provided on request.
Citation
Nguyen, T.T. and Do, D.N. (2023), "Teaching for creativity and entrepreneurial intentions: an empirical study", Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 766-785. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-05-2021-0185
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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