Implications of Entrepreneurial Intentions of Romanian Secondary Education Students, over the Romanian Business Market Development

Furdui, Amalia; Lupu–Dima, Lucian; Edelhauser, Eduard

doi:10.3390/pr9040665

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“…The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) defines entrepreneurship as "any attempt at a new venture or new business creation, such as selfemployment, a new business organization or the expansion of an existing business, by an individual, a team of individuals, or an established business" [4] p. 22. As entrepreneurship is essential to economic growth, sustainable development, and employment creation [5][6][7], the process of creating a new company has become a critical research field [8][9][10].…”

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Exploring Personal and Contextual Variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor through the Rasch Mathematical Model

2021

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This article studies the variables of entrepreneurship at the regional (countries) level proposed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in its periodic global reports. This response to the suggestions and concerns of various authors is related to the need to analyze the theoretical foundation of the variables used by GEM. The validity and reliability of GEM data for the scientific study of entrepreneurship are also analyzed. Finally, the potential of GEM data to manage entrepreneurship variables at the country level is studied. Data from the GEM global report and the fifty countries for which data are available on all variables are used in the study. The methodology used is the Rasch mathematical model, a valuable alternative to the Classical Theory of the Test. The results confirm the theoretical validity of GEM data, its validity and reliability for the development of scientific studies, and its potential for managing entrepreneurship variables at the country level. Both the methodology used and the conclusions obtained constitute novel contributions to this field.

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Exploring Personal and Contextual Variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor through the Rasch Mathematical Model

2021

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“…Secondly, the study units corresponded to advanced years of the Bachelor's, and the Master's Degrees. At these educational stages, university students will have developed deeper insight into the quality of a presentation, whether it is their own work or the work of their peers (Furdui et al, 2021), which implies deeper and more demanding reflection (Revilla-Cuesta et al, 2020).…”

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Teaching self-criticism and peer-critique skills to engineering students through a temporal survey-based program

Revilla-Cuesta,

Hurtado-Alonso,

Fontaneda

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Front. Educ.

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IntroductionEngineering students should develop critical-thinking skills and insist on appropriate performance levels both from themselves and from their colleagues during their training. In doing so, they will adopt critical attitudes toward their own and others’ work. This will help them to successfully perform their future professional work with the highest standards.MethodsIn this research, peer- and self-assessments of in-class presentations through a survey-based program were used to analyze the development of critical-thinking skills among engineering students. The program included two key features: firstly, formative assessments were repeatedly conducted over time; secondly, teachers’ ratings were provided to students as comparative benchmarks. This approach encouraged students to reflect on their ratings over time using the reference of the teacher.ResultsFrom a general perspective, the analysis of survey responses showed that students assigned lower ratings in assessments conducted at a later stage, despite receiving higher ratings from their teachers over time. Therefore, students became more demanding throughout the experience in spite of the increased quality of their work according to the teachers’ assessments. Moreover, students tended to closely attune their evaluations to their teachers’ ratings. Comparing peer- and self-assessments, it was noted that students were more demanding toward the work of their peers in the long term, and especially their ability to explain concepts, than they were toward their own work. Nevertheless, high temporary increases were observed in students’ own self-assessments of presentation-file quality. Finally, students did not conduct overall assessments with the same level of demand as their teachers at any time during the experience.DiscussionThe results demonstrate that this program and similar initiatives are useful to help engineering students to develop critical-thinking skills and to broaden their expectations with respect to their own and their colleagues’ work. However, other relevant aspects could be evaluated in lengthier programs, such as whether the students’ levels of critical thinking and expectations are maintained when the comparative reference of a teacher’s assessment is unavailable.

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“…gemconsortium.org, accessed on 21 June 2021) highlights that entrepreneurial activity is vital to all economies, arguably even more so after an economic and pandemic crisis [4,5]. For these reasons, entrepreneurship has become a key research topic in the world [6][7][8].…”

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Predicting the Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Starting Up a New Company: A Regional Study Using PLS-SEM and Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

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It is essential to understand the variables that explain and predict the behaviour of starting up a new company in a regional context. This study aims to analyse the theoretical basis and predictive potential of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, considering the concerns and suggestions of other authors. In addition to an extensive literature review, a PLS-SEM methodology and data on variables and countries from the latest GEM report are used in this study. The results show that GEM reports have a sufficient theoretical foundation for quality studies in this field. In addition, a valid and reliable causal model is designed that includes all personal and contextual GEM variables. The hypotheses of the proposed model are based on the existing causal relationships in the literature, using GEM data in its formulation. The model is comprehensive and practical because it significantly predicts entrepreneurial behaviour, particularly entrepreneurial intention and action. The usefulness of this study is high, both for researchers, practitioners and institutions wishing to understand better and further promote entrepreneurial behaviour at a regional (country) level.

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Implications of Entrepreneurial Intentions of Romanian Secondary Education Students, over the Romanian Business Market Development

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Exploring Personal and Contextual Variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor through the Rasch Mathematical Model

Exploring Personal and Contextual Variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor through the Rasch Mathematical Model

Teaching self-criticism and peer-critique skills to engineering students through a temporal survey-based program

Predicting the Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Starting Up a New Company: A Regional Study Using PLS-SEM and Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

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