Entrepreneurial Inclinations of Vocational Education Students: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Trainees in Iringa Region, Tanzania

Olomi, Donath; Sinyamule, Rose S.

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“…According to Corak andPiraino (2011) &Dunn andHoltz-Eakin (2000) second generation entrepreneurs are two to three times more likely to work in the same occupation as their fathers. A study by Olomi and Sinyamwale (2009) found that the students who had families which engaged in business had been better socialized to the entrepreneurial career and were likely to engage in starting their own businesses. Studies conducted in different countries like US (Crant, 1996); Singapore (Phan et al 2002); UK (Altinay et al 2012) and Malaysia (Tong et al 2011) gave similar results and found that entrepreneurial families or parents positively influence entrepreneurial career intentions in their children.…”

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Impact of family capital & social capital on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

Sharma¹

2014

J Glob Entrepr Res

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The research paper intends to interpret how the three forms of family capital viz. family's financial capital, family's man power capital and family's human capital influences the career choice intention of students of HEI's of Uttarakhand, India. Additionally the study also evaluates the impact of student's individual social capital on his career intent. This is a quantitative study conducted at Uttarakhand state of India on a large sample of students studying in various professional courses of Uttarakhand. The research validates a positive relationship between the family's financial capital and higher education intention of students. The study found no influence of family's financial capital (measured as father's annual income), manpower capital (measured as family size) and human capital (measured as father's occupation) on career intentions of students. The study confirmed that there is a significant impact of students' social capital network span on his career intentions, especially in taking up entrepreneurship as a career choice.Jel Codes: D20; G34; L10

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Impact of family capital & social capital on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

Sharma¹

2014

J Glob Entrepr Res

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“…The results are consistent with previous empirical studies on the impact of family involvement in business and entrepreneurial intention. Olomi and Sinyamule (2009) find a positive association between entrepreneurial family background and entrepreneurial intention. Gerba (2012) finds that the mean score for students whose family members are involved in business is higher than those whose family members are not involved in business.…”

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Parental and Gender Effects on the Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students in South Africa

Fatoki

2014

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The aim of the study is to investigate empirically whether there is a significant difference in the entrepreneurial intention of students whose parents run a business and those whose parents do not run a business. In addition, the study aims to investigate whether there is a significant gender difference in the entrepreneurial intention of students. The study focussed on the final year students (undergraduate level)

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“…Krueger (1993) also stipulated that young people whose families possess their own businesses are more likely to intend to start their own business. At the same time, Olomi and Sinyamule (2009) obtained positive association between background of entrepreneurial family and interest in entrepreneurial intention in Tanzania. Consequently, the following hypothesis is offered:…”

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Impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of business and engineering students in Ethiopia

Gerba¹

2012

African Journal of Economic and Management Studies

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate university students in Ethiopia by making a comparative analysis among different groups of students. Design/methodology/approach -A total of 156 students completed entrepreneurship intention questionnaire. The questionnaire has seven parts extracting information about personal attraction, subjective norm, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, need for achievement, locus of control, and instrumental readiness. The respondents were asked to state their agreement/disagreement on statements on a seven-point Likert type scale. Findings -The result identified that students who had undergone entrepreneurship education (business management student in this case) tend to have better entrepreneurial intention than those who had not taken entrepreneurship course (engineering students). Also, it was observed that male management students have higher personal attraction towards entrepreneurial career, subjective norms, self-efficacy and achievement need than female management students, as well as male and female engineering students, while female management students have the lowest instrumental readiness than students in other groups. The study did not find significant difference in entrepreneurial intention of students who had exposure to entrepreneurial activity through family and those who had no such exposures.Research limitations/implications -The limitation of this research lies in the sample size and the study units (universities) from which samples have been taken. Future research is recommended to predict entrepreneurship intention of students by taking larger sample from more universities in the country. Practical implications -The study strongly suggests the need to incorporate entrepreneurship education in the curriculum of technical disciplines in Ethiopian universities. Originality/value -The research provides assessment of entrepreneurship intention of university students in the country/culture which was not explored in the past and hence it further enriches literature and helps to universalize intention theories.

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Entrepreneurial Inclinations of Vocational Education Students: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Trainees in Iringa Region, Tanzania

Cited by 36 publications

References 1 publication

Impact of family capital & social capital on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

Impact of family capital & social capital on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

Parental and Gender Effects on the Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students in South Africa

Impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of business and engineering students in Ethiopia

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