This study investigates the link between perceived public support for entrepreneurship and individuals' entrepreneurial intention. Using samples from the US and Poland, we show that positive perception of public support is indirectly related to entrepreneurial intentions of university students. This takes place through relationships with personal attitude to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and risk attitudes. Such links are explained by the reciprocity theory wherein individuals' attitudes and beliefs are associated with a feeling of mutuality toward the supportive actions of society. From a cross-national perspective, we find that while perceived public support exhibits similar relationships across Poland and the US, attitude to risk has a greater positive association with entrepreneurial intentions among US students. These findings hold important implications for theory and practice.

这项研究调查了公众对企业家精神的支持与个人企业家意图之间的联系。使用来自美国和波兰的样本，我们表明，公众支持的积极感知与大学生的创业意图间接相关。这是通过与个人对企业家的态度，企业家的自我效能感和风险态度之间的关系而发生的。互惠理论解释了这种联系，在互惠理论中，个人的态度和信念与对社会支持行动的相互感觉有关。从跨国角度来看，我们发现，尽管在波兰和美国之间，公众的支持感表现出相似的关系，但对风险的态度与美国学生的创业意图有着更大的积极联系。