Translating Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intentions to Actions amidst Hostile Business Climate in Nigeria: The Mediating Role of Mentoring

AFOLAYAN, O.T (2016) Translating Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intentions to Actions amidst Hostile Business Climate in Nigeria: The Mediating Role of Mentoring. Quest Journals Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, 4 (11). pp. 101-107. ISSN 2321-9467

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been identified globally as a strategy for empowering, creating wealth, reducing unemployment and moving the majority out of poverty. While extensive studies on entrepreneurship education and its influence on the intentions of students to become self employed after graduation exist, there is a dearth of literature on how entrepreneurial mentoring can mediate between translating such intentions to entrepreneurial actions, especially given the challenges transiting entrepreneurial graduates face while entering the labour market for the first time, and amidst existing hostile business environment in Nigeria. This paper therefore seeks to review the concepts of entrepreneurial education and intentions, and also to examine the mediating role of entrepreneurial mentoring in translating intentions to actions given the harsh environment in which especially small and medium businesses operate in, with a view to curbing the rising pace of unemployment in Nigeria.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Miss Ayomikun Ogunbadejo
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2020 15:56
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2020 15:56
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/368

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