TY - JOUR AU - Nguyen, Thu Thuy PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Impact of Access to Finance and Environmental Factors on Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediator Role of Entrepreneurial Behavioural Control JF - Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review JA - EBER VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.15678/EBER.2020.080207 UR - https://eber.uek.krakow.pl/eber/article/view/733 SP - 127-140 AB - <table width="723"><tbody><tr><td width="723"><p><strong>Objective:</strong> The objective of the article is to test the direct and indirect impact of environmental and individual determinants on entrepreneurial intention with perceived entrepreneurial behavioural control as a mediating variable.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="723"><p><strong>Research&nbsp;Design&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional quantitative research was conducted using structural equation modelling analysis with a sample consisting of 635 students in 11 universities in Vietnam.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="723"><p><strong>Findings:</strong> The results reveal that perceived environmental factors are significantly related to students’ perceived entrepreneurial behavioural control so that entrepreneurial behavioural control becomes a mediator through which those environmental factors influence entrepreneurial intention. Access to finance is insufficient to influence entrepreneurial intention unless combined with entrepreneurial behavioural control.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="723"><p><strong>Implications&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Recommendations:</strong> The research findings have implications for policy-makers in fostering graduates’ entrepreneurship in emerging countries.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="723"><p><strong>Contribution&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Value&nbsp;Added:</strong> The survey provides evidence supporting the theoretical arguments that exogenous factors affect perceived entrepreneurial behavioural control and impact entrepreneurial intention through the individual’s perceptions of behavioural control.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> ER -