Measuring Entrepreneurial Orientation and its Relationship with the Intention of Starting and / or Creating a New business - A comparative Study Between Students of the College of Business at Philadelphia University/Jordan

Abstract

Objectives: Assessing student entrepreneurial orientation and figuring out the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and the desire to launch an entrepreneurial venture after graduation.

Methodology: The number of students enrolled in the courses on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation equaled the sample size of 120. (89) Surveys were brought back appropriate for examination. The multiple correlation coefficient, T-test, F-test, and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.

Conclusions:  The students have a high degree of Entrepreneurial Orientation, it was found that the cut-off value and the measurement tool were (4.23) and (2.73) respectively. There is a weak positive relationship between the dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientation and the desire to launch a business. Despite the small percentage of influence between the, however, this did not show fundamental differences between the students in their Entrepreneurial Orientations and the desire to launch a new Entrepreneurial business. This did not reveal any significant differences in the students' entrepreneurial orientations and the desire to launch a new business, despite the small percentage of influence that separated them.

Originality/Value: The current study focuses on measuring the Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation of students who are actually enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Subject during the semester before graduation rather than in intensive Entrepreneurship Education courses, which is where previous studies based their results, and here lies the originality and difference.