The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of entrepreneurial intention in promoting women entrepreneurship in Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This study seeks to clarify the construct of entrepreneurial intention and then reports the validation of the entrepreneurial intention instrument.,An instrument has been designed and administered on a sample of 103 respondents across India from women entrepreneurs to understand the entrepreneurial intention by using cluster and snowball sampling. The data has been streamlined and then analyzed using descriptive analysis for validity and reliability checks.,This research was aimed to determine the constructs of entrepreneurial intention. Through data analysis, it has been observed that the reliability coefficients reveal the adequacy of the sample. The Cronbach’s alpha values for all the items in the instrument were found to be greater than or equal to 0.6. Strong correlations were also found between direct and indirect measures of entrepreneurial intention and hence confirmed that all the measures in the instrument were well constructed. Analysis has also explained the relationship between various constructs of entrepreneurial intention by using Pearson’s correlation coefficients. Strong and positive values of correlation explain the existence of the convergent and discriminant validity of the instrument.,The research results obtained from the analysis of reliability and validity tests not only provides the establishment of the relationship among the various constructs but also suggests that the model provides a promising potential to measure entrepreneurial intention. This study will contribute to new knowledge of the conditions of women entrepreneurship from different perspectives by developing and validating an analytic model for promoting the women entrepreneurship in MSMEs of India.,From a government perspective, this model will help in designing training programmes for promoting women entrepreneurship in India. The obtained result also brings significant implications for practice as well as raises a broad future direction for other researchers,Extended SCCT model has recently suggested an inclusive framework of factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention, there is not much attempt made in research using this theory as background for predicting intention in the context of women entrepreneurship. This paper attempts to fill this gap by formulating a conceptual model for measuring entrepreneurial intention among women entrepreneurs by integrating and adapting the constructs of extended social cognitive career theory model and entrepreneurial potential model.

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印度女企业家中创业意向的前因

本文的目的是了解创业意图在促进印度微型，中小型企业（MSME）中的女性创业中的作用。这项研究旨在阐明创业意向的构成，然后报告创业意向工具的有效性。针对印度全境的103名女性企业家中的受访者，设计并实施了一项工具，以通过聚类和滚雪球了解创业意向。采样。数据经过精简，然后使用描述性分析进行了有效性和可靠性检查。本研究旨在确定创业意向的构成。通过数据分析，已经观察到可靠性系数揭示了样本的充分性。发现仪器中所有项目的克朗巴赫（Cronbach）alpha值都大于或等于0.6。在直接和间接的创业意向测度之间也发现了很强的相关性，因此证实该工具中的所有测度都构造良好。分析还通过使用Pearson的相关系数解释了企业家意图的各种结构之间的关系。相关性的强和正值说明了该仪器存在收敛性和判别有效性。通过对可靠性和有效性测试的分析获得的研究结果不仅提供了各种结构之间的关系的建立，而且还表明该模型提供了衡量企业家意图的潜力。这项研究将通过开发和验证一种促进印度MSMEs促进女性创业的分析模型，从不同的角度为女性创业条件的新知识做出贡献。从政府的角度来看，该模型将有助于设计提高妇女地位的培训计划印度的企业家精神。获得的结果也为实践带来了重要的意义，并为其他研究者提出了广阔的未来方向。扩展的SCCT模型最近提出了一个影响企业家意图的因素的包容性框架，在使用该理论作为背景的研究中没有进行太多尝试。在女性创业背景下预测意图。