In this paper, we proposed an analytical framework based on the institutional theory to analyze the effect of institutional context on the impact of entrepreneurship education (EE). The influence of institutional environment was captured through three variables, namely perceived government support, perceived cultural norms, and social legitimacy of entrepreneurship. Based on a sample of 788 respondents from two African countries, our results show that beyond EE, institutional context is equally a determining factor of students’ entrepreneurial intention. Thus, a favorable institutional environment increases the students’ entrepreneurial intention. Our results also reveal that the positive effect of EE is higher when government policies are conducive to entrepreneurship development while it is lower when socio-cultural context (cultural norms, social legitimacy) is conducive to entrepreneurship. Thus, this study shows that informal institutions have a contingency effect while formal institutions play a complementary role in the impact of EE on students’ entrepreneurial intention.

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制度背景如何影响创业教育成果？来自两个非洲国家的证据

在本文中，我们提出了一个基于制度理论的分析框架来分析制度背景对创业教育（EE）的影响。制度环境的影响通过三个变量来捕捉，即感知的政府支持、感知的文化规范和创业的社会合法性。基于来自两个非洲国家的 788 名受访者的样本，我们的结果表明，除了 EE，制度背景同样是学生创业意愿的决定因素。因此，良好的制度环境会增加学生的创业意愿。我们的研究结果还表明，当政府政策有利于创业发展时，EE 的积极作用较高，而当社会文化背景（文化规范、社会合法性）有利于创业。因此，本研究表明，非正式机构具有权变效应，而正式机构在 EE 对学生创业意愿的影响中起到互补作用。