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Junça-Silva, A., Duarte, H. & Santos, S. C. (2023). Personal initiative, risk-taking, creativity and opportunity discovery among student. Journal of Enterprising Communities-People and Places in the Global Economy. N/A

A. L. Silva et al.,  "Personal initiative, risk-taking, creativity and opportunity discovery among student", in Journal of Enterprising Communities-People and Places in the Global Economy, vol. N/A, 2023

@article{silva2023_1732407442647,
	author = "Junça-Silva, A. and Duarte, H. and Santos, S. C.",
	title = "Personal initiative, risk-taking, creativity and opportunity discovery among student",
	journal = "Journal of Enterprising Communities-People and Places in the Global Economy",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "N/A",
	number = "",
	doi = "10.1108/JEC-10-2022-0150",
	url = "https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1750-6204"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Personal initiative, risk-taking, creativity and opportunity discovery among student
T2  - Journal of Enterprising Communities-People and Places in the Global Economy
VL  - N/A
AU  - Junça-Silva, A.
AU  - Duarte, H.
AU  - Santos, S. C.
PY  - 2023
SN  - 1750-6204
DO  - 10.1108/JEC-10-2022-0150
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1750-6204
AB  - Purpose
Discovering opportunities is a key entrepreneurship competence for those who want to start their own business and who choose to enter the workforce. In this study, the authors focus on the antecedents of the ability to discover entrepreneurial opportunities by uncovering how and when students' personal initiative (Frese and Fay, 2001) leads to an increase in this key competency. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of risk-taking and creativity in the interplay between personal initiative and opportunity discovery competencies among university students.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected with a self-assessment tool in two moments in time, using a sample of 103 university students from Portugal enrolled in an entrepreneurship course. The authors measured personal initiative and entrepreneurial risk-taking at the beginning of the entrepreneurship course (Time 1). Two months later (Time 2), by the end of an entrepreneurship course, the authors measured creativity and opportunity discovery abilities.
Findings
The results of this study showed that risk-taking mediates the effect of personal initiative on opportunity discovery and that creativity interacts with risk-taking and opportunity discovery. Specifically, the authors found that the relationship between entrepreneurial risk-taking and opportunity discovery is positive and statistically significant when students display average or above-average creativity. The indirect effect of the personal initiative on opportunity discovery through entrepreneurial risk-taking seems to increase when the student's creativity increases, as the index of moderated mediation is positive.
Research limitations/implications
As with all studies, there are limitations to work of this study. First, data of this study is restricted to a sample of students from Portugal. As such, the authors should be careful about generalizations concerning students from other cultural settings; entrepreneurship competencies can differ across countries. Second, the findings of the present study are based on students’ self-reports regarding their own entrepreneurship competencies.
Originality/value
This work can inspire entrepreneurship educators to look at the entrepreneurship competencies models holistically and inspire future work to explore the relationship patterns between entrepreneurial competencies.
ER  -