The Entrepreneurial Intention among Algerian Students

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is becoming a very relevant instrument to promote economic growth and development in different regional and national economies. However, social scientists have not still agreed on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur. This study aims to identify factors that may explain why Algerian students seek self employment over employment, by analyzing the role played by social variables and contextual elements in shaping the entrepreneurial intention. Survey method is used on a population of business students from the Higher School of Commerce of Algiers. The thesis general results are satisfactory, since most hypotheses have been confirmed and supported. In particular, five of the six original core-model relationships were significant. The positive attitudes found to be from the main antecedents of the graduate students‘ entrepreneurial intention, family background of the student has a positive significant relationship with his or her intention to start a new business; the student‘s access to capital, work experience and his or her good quality of social support exert a positive impact on a students‘ intention to be self-employed. The results would be important to decision-makers (showing them what to encourage and what to do) and to the body of entrepreneurship issues by enriching it.