Abstract:

Student entrepreneurship research primarily explains student entrepreneurs’ (SEs) transition from entrepreneurial aspiration to entrepreneurial intention through educational, social, and individual influences. However, it provides limited insight into how they experience parental resistance during this transition. This limitation is particularly relevant for SEs from non-business family backgrounds, whose entrepreneurial aspirations often emerge outside the family context but must nevertheless be negotiated within it. This study adopts an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the experiences of seven SEs from non-business family backgrounds in India. Specifically, it explores how participants experience, interpret, and cope with parental resistance, and how they navigate the transition from entrepreneurial aspiration to intention while sustaining their engagement with venture creation.

Keywords: Student entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial aspiration, entrepreneurial intention, non-business family backgrounds, parental resistance, coping, phenomenological, venture creation.

Please choose your submission type: Developmental Paper

Primary Track: Entrepreneurship

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Theories;Entrepreneurship in emerging markets

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Mr. Raghunatha T