the effect of social capital on entrepreneurial intention: the case of ma students of the school of electrical and computer engineering of tehran university
چکیده(به انگلیسی؛ چکیدهی فارسی در دسترس نیست)
a measurement of entrepreneurial intention and locating factors that nurture it are among one of the determining factors that lead to the emergence of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, provide a better understanding of the quality of circumstances that bring about free enterprise and thus contribute to a more accurate prediction of the possibility of its occurrence. among factors that are influential in entrepreneurial intention of which has been referred to in various researches is social capital. this research seeks to look into the effect of social capital on entrepreneurial intention. it will do so by incorporating the intermediary role of the cognitive style in a sample of one hundred and forty (140) graduate students of tehran university’s faculty of electrical and computer engineering. sampling method is random sampling. this is an applied research conducted within the framework of a correlative-descriptive survey. the data gathered from the surveys have been analyzed through a structural equation model technique and by lisrel software. the findings of this research convey that there is a positive and meaningful relationship through intuitive cognitive style between relational social capital and entrepreneurial intention.also there is a positive and meaningful relationship through rational cognitive style between structural and cognitive and relational social capital and entrepreneurial intention.