IDEATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: THE ROLES OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHANGE, RISK TAKING, AND THE MODERATINGEFFECT OF CHATGPT ADOPTION

Saraj, Vajihe; Zivari, Amineh; Khayatan, Mehdi; Ravanbakhsh, Seyedeh Raziyeh; Akbari, Morteza; Sakhdari, Kamal

doi:10.22047/ijee.2025.531202.2181

IDEATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: THE ROLES OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHANGE, RISK TAKING, AND THE MODERATINGEFFECT OF CHATGPT ADOPTION

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

Vajihe Saraj ¹

Amineh Zivari ²

Mehdi Khayatan ³

Seyedeh Raziyeh Ravanbakhsh ¹

Morteza Akbari ³

Kamal Sakhdari ⁴

¹ Department of Technological Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Entrepreneurship Development , Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Technological Entrepreneurship , Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Department of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

10.22047/ijee.2025.531202.2181

Abstract

In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the factors shaping higher-education graduates’ orientation toward entrepreneurship. Strengthening such tendencies promotes the discovery and creation of opportunities; the exploitation of these opportunities, in turn, seeds further opportunities and new ventures. Against this backdrop, the present study examines how felt responsibility for change (FRCC) and risk propensity influence students’ entrepreneurial intention through ideation, and whether ChatGPT adoption moderates these relationships. The study population comprised students at the University of Tehran; using convenience sampling, 208 complete and analyzable questionnaires were obtained. Data were collected via a standardized instrument employing a five-point Likert scale. Findings indicate that ideation, as a key factor, exerts a direct and positive effect on students’ entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, risk propensity, FRCC, and ChatGPT adoption each significantly enhance students’ ideation. Furthermore, ChatGPT adoption also strengthened the relationship between risk propensity and ideation, and had a positive and significant effect on the relationship between sense of responsibility for change and idea generation.These results underscore the importance of cultivating psychological attributes alongside the judicious use of AI tools to foster entrepreneurship among the new generation.

Keywords

Sense of responsibility

change

ideation

risk-taking propensity

entrepreneurial intention

ChatGPT

20.1001.1.16072316.1404.27.108.4.0

Subjects

Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education

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