Abstract:
Purpose: This study aims to look at how students' entrepreneurial career
choices are influenced by their entrepreneurial passion using the Social
Cognitive Career Theory as a framework.
Methodology: 215 students enrolled in a private institution in the Sultanate
of Oman were surveyed. The predicted relationships were examined using a
structural equation model (SEM) analysis using partial least squares (PLS).
Using PROCESS MACRO, a serial mediation analysis was performed to
identify the indirect effects of the mediators in the study model.
Findings: The results demonstrate that entrepreneurial passion has a
significant influence on entrepreneurial outcome and self-efficacy. The
results of the mediation study further demonstrated the existence of full
mediation, whereby entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial
outcome expectation fully mediate the association between entrepreneurial
passion and entrepreneurial job choice in a sequential manner.
Implications for Practice: The findings indicate a need for pupils to acquire
entrepreneurial passion. The study findings also suggest that when teaching
an entrepreneurship course, students should be oriented to specific areas of
business that they are interested in rather than being oriented to general
scenarios of business starts.
Originality/Value: The study uncovered a connection between
entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial
outcome expectations, and entrepreneurial job choice. Additionally, the
study validated a serial mediating model, which indicated that
entrepreneurial passion indirectly promotes entrepreneurial job choice via
entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial outcome expectation. This
serial mediation effect has not been studied in the existing literature on
entrepreneurship career choice.
