RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION FOR INVENTING, ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION FOUNDING AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED CREATIVITY DISPOSITION

Abstract

Given the multi-dimensional nature of entrepreneurial passion and the hierarchical construct model development in partial leastsquares path modeling (PLS), we employed the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to investigate therelationship between entrepreneurial passion for inventing (EPI) and entrepreneurial passion for founding (EPF) and entrepreneurial intention (EI). We also examine the moderating role of perceived creativity disposition on these relationships. With a sample of 130 students, our study found a significant relationship between EPF and EI, but our proposed relationship between EPI and EI was not supported. Again the moderating role of perceived creativity disposition was significant for EPF 
and EI relationship but not for EPI and EI.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Intention, Creativity Disposition, Entrepreneurial Passion For Inventing and Founding