Abstract:

Besides its economic phenomenon, entrepreneurship has become a very important issue due to the prominence of its social characteristics in recent years and its research areas are increasing day by day. Entrepreneurship can be defined bringing together the existing components by taking the advantage of opportunities to build market share. Entrepreneurial intension is innate or acquired property with using risk, decision-making and managing functions to the process of implementation activities. Various individual and social phenomenons can also affect entrepreneurial intension. It is considered that cultural and social networks have an important place in terms of entrepreneurial intentions. The purpose of this study is to investigate if social network of students has a mediation effect to students’ entrepreneurial intensions under the influence of social and cultural values. Three different surveys used to measure and evaluate entrepreneurial intentions, cultural values and social network. Surveys were carried out amongst 358 students studying in four separate universities. The data obtained from the survey were analyzed in SPSS statistical software. The findings showed the use of social networking on entrepreneurial intensions under the influence of social and cultural values had a partial mediating effect on community subscale while uncertainty avoidance had complete mediating effect

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