Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Management Education, cilt.24, sa.2, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
This study examines how entrepreneurship education (EE) dimensions drive graduate employability (GE) through the moderated-mediation mechanisms of employability orientation (EO) and career awareness (CA) in the higher educational context in Bangladesh. Grounded on Social Cognitive Career Theory and Human Capital Theory, this study demonstrates entrepreneurship education as an educational investment and a psychological stimulation approach. This study analyzed 437 complete responses applying structural-equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that entrepreneurship courses, entrepreneurship faculty, entrepreneurship knowledge, and skills have significant effects on EO, which further drives employability outcomes with a negligible effect of the entrepreneurial-university climate. The findings moreover reported that CA showed a significant moderation on the association between the EO–GE, signifying that students with higher career awareness tend to have greater possibility of being employed than with lower ones. The study makes valuable contributions to the field by integrating the Human Capital theory and the Social Cognitive Career theory within a moderated–mediated framework in an emerging economy context. Our findings fosters understanding of how EE can simultaneously serve as a driver of employability and a mechanism for national human-capital development.