Measuring the Entrepreneurship Characteristics and Its Impact on Entrepreneurial Intentions

Abstract

Scientific progress, technology and industrial development in addition to globalization have allowed for the flow of a large amount of market information (capital information, investment information, labor, goods and services information etc.), which has resulted in intense competition increasing day by day because of the rapid technological developments, communication technology, electronic commerce and economic blocs. This has led to the industrial development of goods and services at an accelerated pace, and the development of business organizations under the pressure of intense competition and they must search for sophisticated strategies to stay in the market and the performance of economic and social tasks entrusted to it, and be able to compete and then expand in the markets locally and internationally. Entrepreneurship is one of the main topics in the economies of both developed and developing countries. Effective entrepreneurship contributes to economic development and the information era has led to dramatic changes in the work environment. Participation and technology have resulted in a faster pace the competition between local and international institutions, which works in an innovative way to disseminate information to produce products and provide new services to customers. The information era is also an incentive to restore successful traditional work patterns. As a result, innovation has become the main factor in separating leading institutions at all local, regional, and international levels. This paper aimed at measuring the characteristics of Entrepreneurship among postgraduate students from different universities in the Kingdom of Bahrain and its impact on entrepreneurship characteristics. A conceptual framework has been presented for a better understanding of the entrepreneurship characteristics topic which formed the basis for the topic under study. Using a quantitative method, 1000 questionnaires were distributed to target respondents comprising of international and local graduate students studying/graduated from different universities in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The responses collected were 930 completed questionnaires representing a 93% percent response rate. The data were analyzed using Smart PLS version 3. The findings indicate that entrepreneurship characteristics of the post-graduate students are a valid construct in predicting entrepreneurial intentions.