In the process of stimulating economic development, the characteristcs
and main role of establishing a business is becoming the main focus among domestic and foreign scholars. As the problem with employment is growing along with financial crisis, the...
In the process of stimulating economic development, the characteristcs
and main role of establishing a business is becoming the main focus among domestic and foreign scholars. As the problem with employment is growing along with financial crisis, the solution to such is actively encouraging college student's to start a business.
In the prior study, it states when defining college student's entrepreneurial intention and determination, entrepreneurial self-efficacy has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention. When looking at the result of native and foreign empirical studies, the founder and manager's features were understood by defining the entrepreneurial self-efficacy, relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention and level of entrepreneurial self-efficacyand studied about the commonness and difference of entrepreneurial self-efficacy.
In addition, it is been said personal role model has effect on entrepreneurial intention but when seeing their relationship in this study the effect was minimal up to now.
In this study, the research model for entrepreneurial self-efficacy and role model influencing chinese college student's entrepreneurial intention was established based on prior studies and found the goodness of fit and influence of individual variables. With this sample, the study was conducted on 163 chinese college students studying in K college in Seoul and I college in Incheon year 2013.
As the result of data analysis of research model, First, it showed that role model had positive influence on entrepreneurial self-efficacy or entrepreneurial intention. Second, more opportunities of having conversation with role model and work experiences with the role model showed to have positive influence on student's entrepreneurial intention and self-efficacy. Also, when looking at the mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the relationship of role model and entrepreneurial intention, as same with the influence, the experiences with role model and conversations seemed to have mediation effect. Third, as for the result of logistic-regression analysis held to see if the role model's influential action has effect on foundation, student's entrepreneurial intention increased when they had more work experiences with the role model.
In conclusion, this study focused on the influence of role model in entrepreneurial intention which was not dealt in domestic and holds practical meaning by verifying mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. In order to increase employment rate of college students, not only the support of giving them the chance to meet various people and experience in finding positive role model but also the chance of working with the role model needs to be organized.