Alicia Martin-Navarro, Felix Velicia-Martin, Jose Aurelio Medina-Garrido, Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues
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Abstract
The tourism sector is a sector with many opportunities for business
development. Entrepreneurship in this sector promotes economic growth and job
creation. Knowing how entrepreneurial intention develops facilitates its
transformation into entrepreneurial behaviour. Entrepreneurial behaviour can
adopt a causal logic, an effectual logic or a combination of both. Considering
the causal logic, decision-making is done through prediction. In this way,
entrepreneurs try to increase their market share by planning strategies and
analysing possible deviations from their plans. Previous literature studies
causal entrepreneurial behaviour, as well as variables such as creative
innovation, proactive decisions and entrepreneurship training when the
entrepreneur has already created his or her firm. However, there is an obvious
gap at a stage prior to the start of entrepreneurial activity when the
entrepreneurial intention is formed. This paper analyses how creativity,
proactivity, entrepreneurship education and the propensity for causal behaviour
influence entrepreneurial intentions. To achieve the research objective, we
analysed a sample of 464 undergraduate tourism students from two universities
in southern Spain. We used SmartPLS 3 software to apply a structural equation
methodology to the measurement model composed of nine hypotheses. The results
show, among other relationships, that causal propensity, entrepreneurship
learning programmes and proactivity are antecedents of entrepreneurial
intentions. These findings have implications for theory, as they fill a gap in
the field of entrepreneurial intentions. Considering propensity towards causal
behaviour before setting up the firm is unprecedented. Furthermore, the results
of this study have practical implications for the design of public education
policies and the promotion of business creation in the tourism sector.