The purpose of this paper is to revisit the conceptualization and measurement of entrepreneurial intentions. Significant studies anchored in the Theory of Planned Behavior use causal statistical approaches to entrepreneurial intentions. This methodological approach, leads to the conclusion that there is a single pathway for all groups of people to achieve business start-up. Even though theory suggests approaches by women entrepreneurs to start a business may be influenced by different factors from those influencing men, results are inconclusive in these analyses. The authors argue that methodological preferences for linear, causal analytical approaches limit the understanding of gender similarities and differences in the business start-up process. The authors propose that when considering diverse samples, it is unreasonable to assume there is only a single pathway leading to business start-up.,Building on fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and data set of 2,038 respondents, the authors investigate factors predicting the intentions to start a business and evaluate the alternative conjunctive paths that emerge.,The fsQCA results shows that the relationship among conditions leading to entrepreneurial intentions is complex and is best represented as multiple and conjectural causation configurations. In other words, there are multiple significant pathways (refers to equifinality) that predict intentions to start a business start-up, and there are significant differences by gender.,This study is one of the first to examine the roll of gender as a sperate condition in the analysis. This paper offers implications for theory and future research and highlights the complexity of this domain.

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创业意向和性别：创业的途径

本文的目的是重新审视企业家意图的概念化和度量。计划行为理论中的大量重要研究使用因果统计方法来分析企业家的意图。这种方法论方法得出的结论是，所有人群都可以通过一条单一途径来开展业务。尽管理论表明女企业家开办企业的方法可能受到与影响男性的因素不同的因素的影响，但在这些分析中结果尚无定论。作者认为，线性，因果分析方法的方法学偏爱限制了对企业启动过程中性别相似性和差异性的理解。作者建议，在考虑各种样本时，以模糊的定性比较分析（fsQCA）和2,038名受访者的数据集为基础，作者调查了预测创业意图的因素并进行了评估，这是不合理的。 fsQCA结果表明，导致创业意向的条件之间的关系很复杂，最好用多重和猜想因果结构来表示。换句话说，有多种重要的途径（指均等性）可以预测创业的意图，并且在性别方面存在显着差异。这项研究是第一个以性别身份进行研究的研究之一。分析中的条件。