Kim Hoe Looi’s scientific contributions

A productive area for entrepreneurial research is to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial values and entrepreneurial activities. In light of this suggestion, the purpose of this study is to test the utility of values theory to predict undergraduate students' entrepreneurial intentions. The results suggest the simultaneous influence of the three salient values of achievement, stimulation and hedonism on undergraduate students' entrepreneurial intentions. The significance of achievement and stimulation compliment earlier studies whereas the significance of hedonism (negatively) extends the notion of entrepreneurial values. Implications from this research are that undergraduate students' entrepreneurial intentions can be promoted by inculcating and activating salient entrepreneurial values. Besides this, an entrepreneurial development programme can specifically target undergraduate students who possessed salient entrepreneurial values for greater effectiveness.

A productive area for entrepreneurial research is to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial values and entrepreneurial activities. In light of this suggestion, the purpose of this study is to test the utility of values theory to predict undergraduate students entrepreneurial intentions. The results suggest the simultaneous influence of three values of achievement, stimulation and hedonism on undergraduate students entrepreneurial intentions. The significance of achievement and stimulation compliment earlier studies whereas the significance of hedonism (negatively) extends the notion of entrepreneurial values. Implications from this research are that undergraduate students entrepreneurial intentions can be promoted by inculcating and activating salient entrepreneurial values. Besides this, an entrepreneurial development programme can specifically target undergraduate students who possessed salient entrepreneurial values for greater effectiveness.

Entrepreneurship is a source of innovation, job creation and economic growth, as such it is pivotal to attract the young and the educated to become entrepreneurs. Undergraduates are an important source of nascent entrepreneurs in the future and consequently it is interesting to explore their intention for opportunity entrepreneurship. However, there is intellectual disagreement whether entrepreneurs are born or made. This is a post-positivist study, cross-sectional and the level of analysis is individual. Hierarchical regression analysis shows that family business background and gender explained largest and significant incremental variance in students’ entrepreneurial intention. Consequently, the findings from this study lend support to the notion that entrepreneurs are more likely born. Knowledge generated from this study is valuable in the design of entrepreneurship education, training and development policy to promote opportunity entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is a source of innovation, job creation and economic growth, as such it is pivotal to attract the young and the educated to become entrepreneurs. Undergraduates are an important source of nascent entrepreneurs in the future and consequently it is interesting to explore their intention for opportunity entrepreneurship. However, there is intellectual disagreement whether entrepreneurs are born or made. This is a post-positivist study, cross-sectional and the level of analysis is individual. Hierarchical regression analysis shows that family business background and gender explained largest and significant incremental variance in students’ entrepreneurial intention. Consequently, the findings from this study lend support to the notion that entrepreneurs are more likely born. Knowledge generated from this study is valuable in the design of entrepreneurship education, training and development policy to promote opportunity entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is a source of innovation, job creation and economic growth, as such it is pivotal to attract the young and the educated to become entrepreneurs. Undergraduates are an important source of nascent entrepreneurs in the future and consequently it is interesting to explore their intention for opportunity entrepreneurship. However, there is intellectual disagreement whether entrepreneurs are born or made. This is a post-positivist study, cross-sectional and the level of analysis is individual. Hierarchical regression analysis shows that family business background and gender explained largest and significant incremental variance in students’ entrepreneurial intention. Consequently, the findings from this study lend support to the notion that entrepreneurs are more likely born. Knowledge generated from this study is valuable in the design of entrepreneurship education, training and development policy to promote opportunity entrepreneurship.

This paper aims to present the development of an integrative and coherent theoretical framework of motivation for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs’ intentions to export to new markets. This study will employ a literature review approach to develop a theoretical model applicable to international entrepreneurship. This model has strong multi-disciplinary theoretical underpinnings and therefore has the potential to meaningfully inform the literature on the fruitfulness of investigating entrepreneurship utilising multiple disciplinary perspectives and may spur more research in this direction.