Unleashing the Prospect: Cracking the Nexus Between Women’s Entrepreneurial Intention, Behavior, and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
摘要
Women's entrepreneurship has recently sparked significant scholarly interest, and action has gone a long way toward restoring the prior undervaluation of female entrepreneurs and their endeavors. Recently, a few studies have started paying attention to this less-explored aspect of studying entrepreneurship and reported their findings about how women's entrepreneurial intentions (EI) get shaped into their behaviors. Existing research conveys that the supportive or non-supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem's actors and factors independently can help or hinder their behaviors. The current empirical study examines how women's entrepreneurial intentions influence entrepreneurial behavior (EB), considering the consequences of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE). To assess the relationship and the analysis of the data, we have used PLS-SEM. We applied the methodology for the data collected from the sample of 707 young females studying in Higher Education Institutes (HEI) from India's top business-reforming regions. The respondents were either studying or about to complete their degree soon, as students in HEI are believed to be the most impacted by the uncertain and dynamic business environments regarding their career decisions. The findings indicate that the entrepreneurial ecosystem strengthens the actions of women entrepreneurs and positively intensifies the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and the behavior of women entrepreneurs.