Deficiencies In Existing Curriculum Models and Entrepreneurial Intentions in Ghana: The Mediation Roles of Students’ Intrinsic Motivation and Risk Tolerance.
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https://doi.org/10.53555/jaes.v22i1.126Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, curriculum models, deficiencies, undergraduate education, entrepreneurial intentions, risk tolerance, motivationAbstract
In this paper, the implications of the deficiency of the current curriculum models on the entrepreneurial intentions of Ghanaian university students will be examined with specific emphasis on the mediating influence of risk tolerance and intrinsic motivation. A quantitative approach was adopted for this investigation with a corresponding use of structural models among 370 final-year university students of various Ghanaian universities located at the Bono region of Ghana including the Valley View University, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Catholic University College of Ghana, Sunyani Technical University, and Anglican University. From the results, there was a negative influence of the entrepreneurial propensities among the university students as a result of perceived deficiencies among undergraduate curricular models of these students. In addition, these deficiencies positively and indirectly worked through intrinsic motivation and risk tolerance but with contrasting manners; background motivation was found to enhance entrepreneurial intentions whereas risk tolerance diminished them. The effect of curricular deficits on entrepreneurial intentions is further investigated here as a complex relationship with their influence on entrepreneurial ambitions and reveals that though their implications may retard university students' entrepreneurial intentions at the moment, there may be specific psychosomatic reactions from these implications which may counter or further accentuate them respectively. It provides imperative information for learning professionals and developers wishing to make up for the gap between the entrepreneurial potentials and the practical manifestations among Ghanaian university students as entrepreneurial entities themselves.
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