Exploring the relationship between students’ inclination to sports and their entrepreneurial intentions

Abstract

It is logical to explore the university students’ inclination to sports and its impact on their entrepreneurial intentions, as both sports and entrepreneurship share many similar characteristics. In the last one-decade, scholars in the area of entrepreneurship were trying to find out the factors that can predict the entrepreneurial intentions among the students of higher education. This interest is largely because entrepreneurship has an important role to play in this competitive global business environment. It develops market economy. Thus, the topic of entrepreneurship has created motivation among the research scholars to find its antecedents. To achieve this aim, data were collected from 255 students who are studying an undergraduate course in Indian Universities. The proposed causal relationship in the model were examined with the help SmartPLS 3.0 software. The research showed interesting patterns; the students who want to be better than others in sport, and strive hard to become the best in sports have demonstrated their readiness for entrepreneurship intent. Further, the result shows that entrepreneurial attitude acts as a mediator between students’ inclination to sports and entrepreneurial intention. Findings emphasize the importance of motivating students to participate in sports activities, not just for upkeeping their mental and physical health, but they are the people who can start their own enterprise. They are the people who can contribute to the growth of the economy. Administrators and the people who are at the helm of responsibility of educational institutions should endorse the fact and make efforts to provide all the required facilities for the young students to participate in sports. © 2021, Rajarambapu Institute Of Technology. All rights reserved.