Role of the Family in Fostering Student’s Entrepreneurial Intention

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been viewed as solution to the global unemployment challenges facing youths. It is on this backdrop that this field has drawn the attention of most governments to see to it that their youths have necessary entrepreneurial competencies through the introduction of entrepreneurship education in the school curriculum. However, majority of the youths are still unemployed. The theory of planned behaviour identifies three antecedents which focus on the student that influence their entrepreneurial intention. The objective of the study was identifying aspects of the family (family background, family role modelling, birth order and financial literacy) that influence the student’s entrepreneurial intention. The study adopted a qualitative analysis of different studies which addressed the different sources entrepreneurial intention among students. The study established that aspects of the family that fostered student’s entrepreneurial intention included family entrepreneurial background, role modelling, birth order and financial literacy. These aspects place the students a notch higher in entrepreneurship education. This information would guide policy makers in developing appropriate educational curriculum in line with the needs of the students and will add knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship education.