While entrepreneurial intention is considered an important antecedent factor predicting entrepreneurial behaviour, the intentions may not lead to a business startup. Although prior research has demonstrated that the effects of role models are strongly related to entrepreneurial intention, it is not clear how role models are involved in enhancing self-efficacy and perceived feasibility. Additionally, there is little discussion on whether role models influence the transition to entrepreneurial behaviour. This study aims to investigate how entrepreneurial intentions are formed and entrepreneurial behaviours develop through skills transfer. It also investigates what effect role models have on the process, from the formation of entrepreneurial intention to the execution of entrepreneurship. This paper is a case study on independent midwives who successfully start their own businesses. The factors influencing entrepreneurial intention formation were perceived feasibility, perceived desirability, and self-efficacy, as indicated by the Shapero-Krueger Model. The effects of role models were based on the four functions proposed by Gibson （2004） and Nauta & Kokaly （2001）. Consequently, skills transfer impacts the formation of entrepreneurial intentions, both in terms of improving professional skills and identity formation and social mission influences the formation of entrepreneurial intentions among professionals. The effects of role models in the entrepreneurial process confirmed all four functions by Gibson and Nauta & Kokaly. Role models provided support or advice during the process from entrepreneurial intention formation to entrepreneurial execution, indicating the need for role models bound by trust for entrepreneurship to be successfully executed. The theoretical implications of this paper are, first, the identification of the possibility that social mission is a predictor of entrepreneurial behaviour in the profession; second, the identification of the effects of role models in the process from entrepreneurial intention formation to entrepreneurial behaviour; and third, the presence of role models can enhance the realization of entrepreneurship.
