PREPARING MIGRANT WORKERS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A REVIEW OF SOCIAL NETWORK AND SELF-EFFICACY

Abstract

The entrepreneurship of migrant workers is one of the important ways to achieve the strategic goal of rural revitalization in China and the Chinese Government have introduced a series of supporting policies to implement innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas. Based on the background of the study, important research questions are raised: what is the purpose of migrant workers' entrepreneurship? What role do social networks and self-efficacy have on their entrepreneurial intention? In order to prepare migrant workers for entrepreneurship, this study collated the research through literature review and found that migrant workers' social network and self-efficacy play an important role in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Suggestions, such as entrepreneurship training courses provided free of charge to migrant workers are made to enhance their entrepreneurial intentions and thus enable them to transfer their intentions into behaviour.

Keywords:  social network,  self-efficacy,  migrant workers’entrepreneurial intention