Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea

Crowdfunding has recently gained ground as an alternative financing means, particularly for start-ups and risky enterprises. We hereby analyse Romanian and South Korean students’ intentions to use crowdfunding in their future ventures. Using PLS-SEM (N=441), we first investigated the influence of...

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Main Authors: Mina Fanea-Ivanovici, Hasnan Baber
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description Crowdfunding has recently gained ground as an alternative financing means, particularly for start-ups and risky enterprises. We hereby analyse Romanian and South Korean students’ intentions to use crowdfunding in their future ventures. Using PLS-SEM (N=441), we first investigated the influence of the Theory of Planned Behaviour variables- attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioural control along with entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions. In addition, we looked into the influence of perceived trust and risk, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating conditions on crowdfunding intentions. Finally, we checked entrepreneurial intentions with crowdfunding intentions. We find that attitudes towards entrepreneurship, social norms, and entrepreneurial education have a positive influence and perceived behavioural control have a negative influence on entrepreneurial intentions. In terms of crowdfunding intentions, they were found to be positively influenced by performance expectancy, perceived trust and risk and entrepreneurial intentions. The results are useful both for educators designing higher education programmes in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as for crowdfunding platform owners in designing platform functionalities and image.
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spelling doaj-art-7d2cd5ba7d024972ad17c2a7f74e9e292025-08-20T02:07:12ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042021-11-0123Special Issue No. 151003101410.24818/EA/2021/S15/1003Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South KoreaMina Fanea-Ivanovici 0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-2990Hasnan Baber1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8951-3501Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, RomaniaEndicott College of International Studies, Woosong University, Daejeon, South KoreaCrowdfunding has recently gained ground as an alternative financing means, particularly for start-ups and risky enterprises. We hereby analyse Romanian and South Korean students’ intentions to use crowdfunding in their future ventures. Using PLS-SEM (N=441), we first investigated the influence of the Theory of Planned Behaviour variables- attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioural control along with entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions. In addition, we looked into the influence of perceived trust and risk, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating conditions on crowdfunding intentions. Finally, we checked entrepreneurial intentions with crowdfunding intentions. We find that attitudes towards entrepreneurship, social norms, and entrepreneurial education have a positive influence and perceived behavioural control have a negative influence on entrepreneurial intentions. In terms of crowdfunding intentions, they were found to be positively influenced by performance expectancy, perceived trust and risk and entrepreneurial intentions. The results are useful both for educators designing higher education programmes in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as for crowdfunding platform owners in designing platform functionalities and image.https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3053.pdfcrowdfundingintentionsentrepreneurshiptheory of planned behaviourentrepreneurial educationperceived trustperceived risk
spellingShingle Mina Fanea-Ivanovici
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Amfiteatru Economic
crowdfunding
intentions
entrepreneurship
theory of planned behaviour
entrepreneurial education
perceived trust
perceived risk
title Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea
title_full Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea
title_fullStr Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea
title_full_unstemmed Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea
title_short Predicting Entrepreneurial and Crowdfunding Intentions ‒ A Study of Romania and South Korea
title_sort predicting entrepreneurial and crowdfunding intentions a study of romania and south korea
topic crowdfunding
intentions
entrepreneurship
theory of planned behaviour
entrepreneurial education
perceived trust
perceived risk
url https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3053.pdf
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