Published Online:March 2026
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Entrepreneurship Development
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJED010326
DOI:10.71329/IUPJED/2026.23.1.5-33
Author Name:Monika Tanwar and Richa Awasthy
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:5-33
The study examines the psychological and social factors influencing the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students in Delhi NCR. It employs a combined framework of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). Using a sample of 221 students and PLSSEM technique, the study examines the relationship between resilience, proactivity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), innovation, social networks, and EI. It also explores the mediating effect of ESE, which shows that the model explains a total of 54% variance in EI and 60% in ESE. The findings reveal that innovation is the strongest predictor, while resilience has no direct effect, contradicting some previous studies. Furthermore, the study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by focusing on the psychosocio factors and providing a fulcrum for education and policy matters related to entrepreneurship practices.
Entrepreneurship has emerged as a fundamental driver of creativity, job creation, and ultimately economic growth (Hassan et al., 2020). The government is promoting and enhancing the support provided to startups and established enterprises so that they can realize their full potential. Therefore, it is vital to study entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) of university students so that they can transform their intentions into actual entrepreneurial behavior by starting and establishing their own business undertakings. Also, today’s students are tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and may potentially contribute to innovation, social development, GDP and economic growth (Pandit et al., 2018).