Affiliations: School of Economy and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P.R. China
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Corresponding author: Saad Alsaidan, Ph.D. Candidate, Business Administration, School of Economy and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, 13 Fayuan Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, P.R. China. Tel.: +86 187 4500 5772; E-mail: s3_55@hotmail.com.
Abstract: This research investigates the roles that entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays in the relations between students’ perception of vocational guidance and entrepreneurial intentions, as well as between vocational knowledge and entrepreneurial intentions, in the vocational colleges of Saudi Arabia. Correlation analysis and linear regression are used to assess the relations among students’ perception of vocational guidance, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, vocational knowledge and entrepreneurial intentions. Gathered from 631 students and analyzed with the SPSS software, the empirical data confirm that entrepreneurial self-efficacy moderates the relations between both students’ perception of vocational guidance and entrepreneurial intentions, and vocational knowledge and entrepreneurial Intentions. Besides the study’s qualification, also offered are policy making recommendations for practice and implications for future research.
