Factors that Influence Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Undergraduates of South-South and Southeast Nigeria

Openness, ICT and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa

“…Ita et al (2014) assessed the factors that affect entrepreneurial objectives among undergraduate students in Southeast and South-south Nigeria. They concluded that personal attitude, perceived barrier and behavioural control are the most significant issues.…”

Openness, ICT and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Fourth, the available entrepreneurship literature for the most part has focused on, among others, the: legal challenges to doing business (Taplin & Synman, 2004); cost of doing business (Eifert et al, 2008); drivers of entrepreneurship in East Africa (Khavul et al, 2009); intensity by which trade affects business cycle synchronization (Tapsoba, 2010); effect of externalities in labour regulations on the cost of doing business (Paul et al, 2010); connection between financial literacy and youth entrepreneurship (Oseifuah, 2010); long-run povertyreducing effect of entrepreneurship (Mensah & Benedict, 2010); intensions behind female entrepreneurs (Singh et al, 2011); motivation behind undergraduate students' ambition to become entrepreneurs (Gerba, 2012;Ita et al, 2014) and role of the knowledge economy in doing business (Tchamyou, 2016).…”

“…Ita et al (2014) Africa was studied by Oseifuah (2010) who found that the latter is a crucial driver of the former. The long-term effects of entrepreneurship training were assessed by Mensah and Benedict (2010).…”

Remittances, ICT and Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Fourth, as far as we have reviewed, contemporary African business literature has focused on inter alia: legal challenges to doing business (Taplin & Synman, 2004); the cost of doing business (Eifert et al, 2008); determinants of doing business in East Africa (Khavul et al, 2009); the influence of labour regulation externalities on the cost of doing business (Paul et al, 2010); intensity by which trade influences business cycle synchronization (Tapsoba, 2010); the importance of information technology in social outcomes (AmankwahAmoah & Sarpong, 2016;Amankwah-Amoah, 2015; the long-term effect of entrepreneurial training in the mitigation of poverty (Mensah & Benedict, 2010); the relationship between youth entrepreneurship and financial literacy (Oseifuah, 2010); linkages between social networks and gender in entrepreneurship ( Kuada, 2009); motivations behind female entrepreneurs (Singh et al, 2011); entrepreneurial intensions by undergraduate students (Gerba, 2012;Ita et al, 2014); insights into project failures in entrepreneurship (Ika & Saint-Macary, 2014;Hashim, 2014;Ofori, 2014;Joseph et al, 2014); the relevance of cross-border inter-firm knowledge generation on doing business in Africa (Kuada, 2015); a classification of the research agenda on entrepreneurship in Africa (Kuada, 2015) and the role of knowledge economy in doing business (Tchamyou, 2016).…”