The role of entrepreneurial education and Islamic values matter

Abstract

This paper traces how the Islamic values drive entrepreneurship education and intention for entrepreneurship, as well as examines the moderating role of the entrepreneurial mindset. We adopted structural equation modeling-partial least squares (SEM-PLS) to gain detailed information on how the connectivity among variables. This study involved 381 students in several Islamic boarding schools who incorporated entrepreneurial practices. The findings indicated that Islamic values are highly incorporated with entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial mindset of Islamic boarding schools. This study also confirmed that there is a rigorously significant between entrepreneurship education, mindset, and students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Lastly, this paper notes that the mindset of entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in mediating Islamic value and entrepreneurship education with regard to students’ entrepreneurial intention. This work offers Islamic values as a contextual factor that greatly influences the enhancement of Islamic boarding school students’ intentions.