A chip off the old block? How parent-child interactions affect the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial intentions

Hopp, Christian; Minarikova, Dana; Speil, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2019.e00130

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“…The logic is straightforward as individuals whose parents operate one form of business or the other tend to be exposed to such business from a tender age. In fact, some parents deliberately prepare their offspring for business succession at a tender age through appropriate mentoring schemes (see also Liñán & Fayolle, 2015;Hopp et al, 2019). Exposing students to entrepreneurship education tends to ignite the passion for entrepreneurship in them; however, it has also been argued that EE is not a sufficient condition for promoting entrepreneurship within an ecosystem (Rippa et al, 2020).…”

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“…Further-more, Botha et al (2007) found that the special women entrepreneurial programme (WEP) was effective and positively influenced business start-up and venture creation among women in South Africa. Several authors have shown other factors as influencing entrepreneurial propensity among youths to include: entrepreneurial education (Hahn et al, 2020;Ayalew, 2020), supportive environment (Walter & Block, 2016), and parents' entrepreneurial role (Liñán & Fayolle, 2015;Olofinyehun, Adelowo & Egbetokun, 2018;Hopp et al, 2019;Moussa and Kerkeni, 2021). Among the Hungarian students, Gubik (2021) found that positive entrepreneurial attitudes and better knowledge about entrepreneurship process has the chance to positively influence them towards entrepreneurship career.…”

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Do entrepreneurial characteristics and education influence start-up potentials among undergraduates? Evidence from a developing country

Adelowo

Ilevbare

Surujlal

2021

IER

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Entrepreneurship education offers plausible policy options to curtail the consistent rise in youth unemployment in Nigeria. Understanding students' entrepreneurial characteristics will assist university administrators, policymakers, scholars and practitioners to deliver contents that stimulate their entrepreneurial propensity. This study examines students' entrepreneurial characteristics and how it, together with entrepreneurship education, shapes start-up potential among them in Nigeria. Research Design & Methods:The study adapts the personal entrepreneurial characteristics (PECs) scale developed by Management Systems International. Data were collected from three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven (N=3 277) students from six Nigerian universities. Descriptive and binary logistic regressions were used to estimate important PECs that influenced entrepreneurial interest among the students. Findings: The results show that majority of the students (92%) are interested in starting a business, while 36% of them are already running one form of enterprise. The level of entrepreneurship interest is also high. Generally, the mean/average score for the entire personal entrepreneurial characteristics is high, and specific means were computed for each element of PECs including opportunity seeking, risk-taking, information seeking, systematic planning and monitoring, persuasion and networking, commitment, persistence, demand for efficiency and quality, goal-setting and self-confidence. Binary logistic regression was adopted to examine the influence of PECs on the start-up potentials among the students using the mean scores computed from the PECs as the independent variables. The results show that students with high goal-setting characteristics and opportunity recognition characteristics are highly predisposed to entrepreneurship. The results further showed that students whose parents run businesses and attended entrepreneurship courses are significantly and highly likely to venture into business. Although persuasion and networking, risk-taking and persistence predispose the students to entrepreneurship, the variables were not significant. Implications & Recommendations: Entrepreneurship education in the country should therefore be re-designed such that students are adequately profiled to determine the kind of EE best suited for them. For those already practising entrepreneurship, the university administration could establish innovation hubs or labs, as well as business incubators, and organise annual innovation competition to help improve entrepreneurship education outcomes. Contribution & Value Added: The paper adopts personal entrepreneurial characteristics (PECs) as novel lenses to understand entrepreneurial inclinations among undergraduates in a developing country. Paying particular attention to PEC is important for policymakers and university administrators to improve the policy outcomes of entrepreneurship education policy. Article type:research article

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Do entrepreneurial characteristics and education influence start-up potentials among undergraduates? Evidence from a developing country

Adelowo

Ilevbare

Surujlal

2021

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“…This result is remarkably robust across countries and time(Lentz and Laband, 1990;Aldrich et al, 1998;Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998;Fairlie, 1999;Dunn and Holtz-Eakin, 2000;Arum and Müller, 2004;Niittykangas and Tervo, 2005;Aldrich and Kim, 2007;Fairlie and Robb, 2007a, 2007b;Sørensen, 2007;Colombier and Masclet, 2008; Hammarstedt, 2010, 2011;Laspita et al, 2012;Hoffmann et al, 2015;Lindquist et al, 2015;Edelman et al, 2016;Criaco et al, 2017;Hopp et al, 2019).T. Vladasel, et al Journal of Business Venturing xxx (xxxx) xxxx…”

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On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

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“…This early exposure to the world of business, often through their families who happen to run their own businesses, lightened their imagination of owning their own businesses in the future and cultivated their entrepreneurial values (Zaman et al., 2021; Kirkwood, 2007). Observing closely what their entrepreneurial parents did in their situated practice helps them to develop very practical skills like organization, budgeting and money management (Hopp et al. , 2019).…”

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Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

Sarpong

Nyuur

Torbor

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeCareers have come to dominate contemporary discourse on gendered entrepreneurship. This paper aims to explore entrepreneurial careers as recounted by commercially successful female entrepreneurs to examine how they strategize to construct desirable careers in contexts characterized by underdeveloped markets and weak institutions.Design/methodology/approachUsing a qualitative research design, data for our inquiry come from publicly available life history accounts of 20 female entrepreneurs appearing on an enterprise focus television show in Nigeria. The authors supplemented the television interview data with archival data in the form of publicly available digital footprints of the entrepreneurs collected from their company websites, magazines, online newspapers featuring these entrepreneurs and their social media pages such as LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook and Instagram.FindingsThe careers of female entrepreneurs operating in context of underdeveloped institution and markets, the authors found, are characterized by four heterogeneous ingrained dispositions and actions reflecting how they got in and got on with their entrepreneurial careers: (1) “Observing and playing business,” (2) traipsing the “path less traveled,” (3) a hook to the “Pierian spring” of entrepreneurship and (4) “Grace under pressure” in decision-making.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by providing insight into the lived experiences, agency and careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs as played out in the form of a contextual practice of “wayfinding” to starting up and managing their own business ventures.

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A chip off the old block? How parent-child interactions affect the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial intentions

Cited by 21 publications

References 35 publications

Do entrepreneurial characteristics and education influence start-up potentials among undergraduates? Evidence from a developing country

Do entrepreneurial characteristics and education influence start-up potentials among undergraduates? Evidence from a developing country

On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

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