Do proactive students benefit more from university support for entrepreneurship when it comes to choosing entrepreneurship as a career choice? An examination of Ghanian and Malaysian students

Universities are increasingly looking at new ways to support their students' entrepreneurial career choices. Prior research suggests that university support for entrepreneurship serves as an important means through which students can develop entrepreneurial intentions. However, more scholarly work is needed to better understand the relationships between students' individual disposition and their awareness of university support initiatives for entrepreneurship. We address this issue by exploring the moderating role of students’ proactive personalities in the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions. Based on data from 339 students from Malaysia and Ghana, we find that university support for entrepreneurship raises the entrepreneurial intentions of students with a low to moderate proactive personality rather than those with a strong proactive personality. Our study contributes to the ongoing debate on how best universities can support the entrepreneurial intentions of their students. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd