Students and Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study of France and the United States

Boissin, Jean‐Pierre; Branchet, Bénédicte; Émin, Sandrine; Herbert, James I.

doi:10.1080/08276331.2009.10593445

Cited by 77 publications

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“…Such beliefs are context-specific because they are rooted in cultural views about entrepreneurship resulting from the environment in which students are embedded (Bae et al 2014). In particular, since cultural aspects are determined at national level, the beliefs about entrepreneurship career requirements are country-specific (Boissin et al 2009;Carayannis, Evans, and Hanson 2003), as cross-country comparisons suggest (Giacomin et al 2011).…”

Section: National Entrepreneurial Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies

Hahn

Minola

Gils

et al. 2017

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Despite the worldwide increase in entrepreneurship education offered at universities, there is an ongoing debate whether and under which conditions this type of education contributes to students' entrepreneurial learning. Building on human capital theory, we hypothesize that the exposure to various entrepreneurship education initiatives has an inverted U-shaped relationship with entrepreneurial learning outcomes. We also argue that this relationship is moderated by the entrepreneurial experience of the students, the teaching pedagogy applied in entrepreneurial initiatives offered at the university and the prevalence of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship in the country. A multi-level analysis on a cross-country sample of 87,918 students resulting from GUESSS ('Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey') strongly confirms our hypotheses, and allows us to discuss implications for researchers, educators and policy makers with respect to the nature of entrepreneurial learning, the design of entrepreneurial education programs, as well as the contextual conditions that impact entrepreneurial learning outcomes.

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Section: National Entrepreneurial Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies

Hahn

Minola

Gils

et al. 2017

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

129

106

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“…Essa teoria aponta que os comportamentos conscientes são planejados e podem ser preditos, sabendo-se a intenção de executar o comportamento. Boissin et al (2009) compararam atitudes e intenções empreendedoras entre estudantes norte-americanos e franceses. Os resultados indicaram que atitudes em direção à criação de um empresa eram positivamente relacionadas com intenções empreendedoras para os respondentes dos dois países.…”

Section: H1: Valores Pessoais De Estudantes Influenciam Diretamente Sunclassified

Valores Pessoais, Atitudes E Intenção Empreendedora: Um Estudo Com Estudantes De Graduação Em Administração

Schaefer

Nishi

Grohmann

et al. 2018

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<p>O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar a relação entre valores pessoais, atitude empreendedora e intenção empreendedora em estudantes universitários brasileiros, comparando o modelo norte-americano proposto por Watchravesringkan et. al. (2013). Tomando como ponto de partida o estudo norte-americano, foi realizada uma pesquisa, quantitativa e descritiva, com estudantes de graduação em Administração (n=204) de duas instituições de ensino brasileiras, no Rio Grande do Sul (uma pública e outra privada). A modelagem de equações estruturais foi utilizada para validar e testar as hipóteses do modelo. Os resultados foram que os valores pessoais influenciaram positivamente a atitude empreendedora (R=0,152) e que a atitude empreendedora impactou fortemente na intenção empreendedora (R=0,773) dos estudantes investigados. O modelo cognitivo de tomada de decisão inicialmente proposto e testado nos Estados Unidos, e posteriormente adaptado e aplicado em estudantes brasileiros por meio desta pesquisa, contribui para a validação empírica de instrumentos que medem valores, atitude e intenção empreendedora, e pode ser uma alternativa efetiva para predizer intenções em seguir uma carreira empreendedora em universitários.</p>

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“…On the other hand, it is possible that individuals with a more balanced portfolio of human capital, social capital and experiences rather than with university education are more disposed to be entrepreneurs (Lazear 2005). In addition, one can speculate that the negative image of entrepreneurship and type of education could be important explanatory factors (Boissin et al 2009). Unfortunately, we cannot test the above-discussed alternative explanations due to the data set limitations.…”

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What is the effect of university education on chances to be self-employed in transitional countries?: Instrumental variable analysis of cross-sectional sample of 29 nations

Habibov

Afandi²,

Cheung

2016

Int Entrep Manag J

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We used a high-quality cross-sectional data set that covers a diverse set of 29 transitional countries, to find the effect of education of probability of people being selfemployed using standard probit models and instrumental variable biprobit that address endogeneity. Our findings suggest a negative effect of university education on the propensity of being self-employed. This finding remains the same for the single-stage model (i.e. standard probit) and the instrumental variable model (i.e. biprobit). We found strong endogeneity in the estimation of education effect on the propensity of being self-employed, ignoring which renders estimations biased. Regression models, which do not address endogeneity tend to underestimate the negative effect of the education on the probability of being self-employed in the countries of transition. Researchers should use alternative approaches to reduce endogeneity, such as instrumental variables and longitudinal analysis.

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Students and Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study of France and the United States

Cited by 77 publications

References 22 publications

Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies

Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies

Valores Pessoais, Atitudes E Intenção Empreendedora: Um Estudo Com Estudantes De Graduação Em Administração

What is the effect of university education on chances to be self-employed in transitional countries?: Instrumental variable analysis of cross-sectional sample of 29 nations

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