“AFTERMATHS OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR WITH CURBING EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION; EVIDENCE FROM PRIVATE BUSINESS UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN”

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to transform the students aspirations into creating real businesses through entrepreneurial education, teacher skills, perceived social support, and a learning environment for student entrepreneurs. This is to determine the impact on your ideal. This study also investigates the mediating role of entrepreneurial enthusiasm in entrepreneurial intentions. The target group included students from various private universities who had taken or studied entrepreneurship courses. The data was collected from 368 business students from five different private sector institutes in Lahore city utilizing a questionnaire survey and simple random selection. IBM SPSS and PLS-SEM were used for the statistical investigation. Findings showed that entrepreneurship education, lecturers competency, and perceived social support have a significant impact on the learning environment. The learning environment significantly mediates the relationship between entrepreneurship education, lecturers competency, perceived social support, and entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, entrepreneurial intention significantly mediates the relationship between the learning environment and entrepreneurial behavior. However entrepreneurial passion doesnt show significant moderation on entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, this study will provide guidelines to the policymakers and the higher staff of universities to promote entrepreneurship.