Local Community Readiness in Entrepreneurship: Do Gender Differ in Searching Business Opportunity

Dahalan, Norziani; Jaafar, Mastura; Rosdi, Siti Asma’ Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.437

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“…However, the desire for a better standard of living can encourage people to become an entrepreneur as well. Some countries promote entrepreneurship as a plan to help the poor to increase living standards (Dahalan, Jaafar, & Rosdi, 2013). In any case, a level of income and living standard can be predictors, which, with other factors, determine the propensity towards entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Intention and Demographics And Socio-economimentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivation of the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina to start a business: Examining aspects of education and social and political engagement

Turulja

Agić

Veselinović

2020

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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In the present study, several logit models were tested to identify the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention among the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). Specifically, we explore whether demographic and socio-economic characteristic or whether perceptions of education curriculum and social and political engagement as well as the perception of media influence have an impact on the intention to start one's own business. Data analysis was done on a sample of 3,611 young people. Education level and perception of the standard of living have an impact on the attitude towards self-employment. In addition, the perception of education curriculum and parents support in education is linked with the entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, some campaigns of social and political engagement are significant predictors of the propensity towards starting the business. Finally, the perception of media influence impacts entrepreneurial intention positively. The findings have important implications for policymakers and universities. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Entrepreneurial Intention and Demographics And Socio-economimentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivation of the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina to start a business: Examining aspects of education and social and political engagement

Turulja

Agić

Veselinović

2020

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…Several authors consider that women entrepreneurs may have lower entrepreneurial and managerial experience than men entrepreneurs (Boden & Nucci, 2000;Danmanville & Hurel, 2001;Greene et al, 2001;Orhan, 2001;St-Cyr, 2002). By regarding to the financing choices, the lack of financial competence makes women entrepreneurs feel insecure in financial negotiations (Dahalan et al, 2013) and lead bankers to reject their loans applications (Haines et al, 1999). However, the experience of entrepreneur is found to have a significant positive relation with business performance (Jose et al, 2014).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Experience Of Women Entrepreneursmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This result confirms literature findings by considering that the experience of women entrepreneurs plays an important role on their financing choices. Accordingly, the low experience of women entrepreneurs causes barriers on their access to bank loans (Dahalan et al, 2013;Roomi et al, 2009;St-Cyr, 2002;Danmanville & Hurel, 2001). It makes women entrepreneurs feel insecure during financial negotiations.…”

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The Determinants of Using Bank Loans by Women Entrepreneurs: Comparative Study Between Middle East and Western Europe Countries

El-Chaarani¹,

El-Abiad²

2019

ASS

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The intention of this research is to provide more evidence related to women entrepreneurs by selecting an unexplored sample coming from two different regions: The Middle East and the Western Europe countries. It aims to explore the profile of women entrepreneurs and to further investigate the impact of their socio-demographic profile and their individual subjective perception on their preference for bank loans. The sample was composed of 47 and 46 women entrepreneurs operating in small and medium (SMEs) business activities, respectively in 10 Middle East and 10 Western Europe countries. Results show that the majority of women entrepreneurs in both regions are between 26 and 31 years old, they have a high education level, they have already received a training support and accumulate an important professional experience. The majority of women entrepreneurs also avoid using bank loans. However, women entrepreneurs in the Middle East have more conflict between their entrepreneurial activity and their family duties. Regressions results show that socio-demographic variables of women entrepreneurs, such as the age, the education level, the training support and the professional experience affect positively and significantly the use of bank loans in both regions. Other variables related to family issues such as the marital status, the family size and the family responsibilities provide a negative and significant impact. The subjective perception variables of women entrepreneurs such as the risk tolerance, the self-confidence and the confidence in banks affect negatively on the use of bank loans.

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“…The majority of Gartner's respondents (79%) focused on entrepreneurship characteristics, while the rest (21%) had entrepreneurship outcomes in their focus (Gartner, 1990). Summing up the various attempts to define entrepreneurship, it is the process and capacity of perceiving and exploiting good business opportunities in order to create business value while accepting risks in this regard (Dahalan, Jaafar, &Rosdi, 2013;Landstrom, 2007;Sharif, 2015). By the same principle, an entrepreneur is an innovative and proactive person with a specific mind-set and vision who recognizes business possibilities, makes crucial decisions, and is willing to take risks in order to make a profit (McQuaid, 2002;Obembe, Otesile, & Ukpong, 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions in ICT Industry: Gender and country of origin perspective

Bach

Skok

Štreimikienė

2016

Naše Gospodarstvo/Our Economy

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Although many researchers agree that environmental and personal characteristics are important for becoming an entrepreneur, it is still not clear if their influence is equally significant. Numerous authors have pointed out unresolved matters regarding the relationship among innovativeness, gender, and entrepreneurial intensions. The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of gender and country of origin in relation to entrepreneurial intentions and innovative cognitive style. Research was conducted using a sample of students majoring in information and communication technologies from Croatia and Slovenia. The results revealed the influence of gender, country, attitudes toward entrepreneurship, and innovative cognitive style on entrepreneurial intentions.

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Local Community Readiness in Entrepreneurship: Do Gender Differ in Searching Business Opportunity

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

Motivation of the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina to start a business: Examining aspects of education and social and political engagement

Motivation of the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina to start a business: Examining aspects of education and social and political engagement

The Determinants of Using Bank Loans by Women Entrepreneurs: Comparative Study Between Middle East and Western Europe Countries

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions in ICT Industry: Gender and country of origin perspective

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