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Does parental gender influence the entrepreneurial intention in heirs?

Abstract:

Parental gender may impulse the entrepreneurial intention of their heirs. To know if parental gender influences entrepreneurial intention, we based our study on Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (subjective norm, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, and self-efficacy) in first-year university students. We analyzed 952 prospective entrepreneurs by using a pre and post instrument in an entrepreneurship challenge to measure our hypothesized model. The results show that (a) the effect of the parental gender on heirs is small; (b) there is a slight difference between entrepreneurial fathers and entrepreneurial mothers, and (c) the impact of the entrepreneurial activities is higher on children with no entrepreneurial parents. The major implication of these results is that entrepreneurial education has different effects on students, as these effects are contingent on their parents’ occupation.