Revista Internacional de Economia e Ciências de Gestão

Entrepreneurial Intention, Autonomy and Self-employment among MSEs: The Role of TVET Support in Addis Ababa

Abstract

Tesfaye Leta Tufa

To address self-employment with entrepreneurship, there are various forms of capital and intentions that influences individual engagement
in self-employment. In consideration of this, the study investigates the influence of entrepreneurial intention and autonomy on selfemployment
under different levels of TVETs support. To meet this aim, the study employed both descriptive and explanatory research
design and analyzed the data collected from 124 sample respondents through questionnaire using descriptive and hierarchical
regression analysis. From this, the finding indicates that the entrepreneurial intention and autonomy were not at a good level, while
they significantly influence self-employment. Similarly, the presence of human capital development improves the influence of
psychological intentions on self-employment. Therefore, TVET colleges should focus more on the human capital development rather
than social capital in improving the self-employment. Moreover, the future research should test the influence of other variables such
as TVETS support flexibility and entrepreneurship training as a determinants of self-employment.