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Individual social capital and the implementation of entrepreneurial intentions: The case of R ussia
Author(s) -
Tatarko Alexander,
Schmidt Peter
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/ajsp.12113
Subject(s) - psychology , social capital , social psychology , sample (material) , matching (statistics) , capital (architecture) , theory of planned behavior , control (management) , sociology , management , economics , social science , archaeology , history , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , chromatography
The current research hypothesized that individual social capital facilitates the implementation of one's intention to start a business. The research samples were drawn from a sample of 2061 adult respondents: a sub‐sample of 269 adults who stated their intention to start their own business during the next two years (‘intenders’) and a matching sub‐sample of 270 who said they did not intend to do so (‘non‐intenders’). The study shows that the ‘intenders’ possessed greater individual social capital. These resources had a positive indirect impact (through increased perceived behavioural control and attitude) on their intention to start their own business.