Students Perceptions and Intentions Towards Enterpreneurship: The Empirical Findings From the University of Dubrovnik-Croatia

Raguž, Ivona Vrdoljak; Matić, Matea

doi:10.5848/apbj.2011.00038

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“…According to Raguz & Matic (2011), an entrepreneur is a person who is self-employed, who initiates, organizes, manages and takes responsibility for business. Essien (2006), defined an entrepreneur as a person who is assertive and has the capability to identify business opportunity and take advantage of such opportunities in the face of calculated risks and uncertainties, organize the needed resources and start a profitable business.…”

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Tertiary Students� Attitude towards Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana

Amanamah¹

2018

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This study was carried out to assess the attitude of tertiary students towards entrepreneurship education in Ghana.The study further assessed whether there is a significant difference in respondents' attitude towards entrepreneurship education from gender and marital status perspective. Purposive sampling was used to solicit data and information from 788 students from a tertiary institution in Ghana. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data with the help of SPSS software. Results of the study revealed that respondents exhibit positive attitude towards entrepreneurship education. The gender variable does not display statistically significant difference with regards to the respondents' attitude towards entrepreneurship education. However, the result of the t-test revealed statistically significant difference between married and singly respondents with respect to their attitude towards entrepreneurship education. In conclusion, students generally exhibit positive attitude toward entrepreneurship education and the unmarried students are more likely to go into entrepreneurship compared to married students. Thus, the entrepreneurship should be developed in a way that it can support unmarried students even after school.

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Section: Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Tertiary Students� Attitude towards Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana

Amanamah¹

2018

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“…Developing countries, such as South Africa, should emphasize entrepreneurship training amongst the youth even more. Entrepreneurship training could offer opportunities for the youth to start small businesses and in turn help them to attain independence in the form of financial freedom (Raguž & Matić, 2011). Ekpoh and Edet (2011) state that a positive relation exists between entrepreneurship education and attitudes.…”

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South Africa's Youth Unemployment Dilemma: Whose Baby is it anyway?

Meyer

2017

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Youth unemployment is a major concern to various different countries, including South Africa, which ranked fourth-worst in the global youth unemployment ratings in 2013 and 2014reaching rates of more than 50 percent. Entrepreneurship development and increased employability through appropriate skills development have been considered as possible solutions to this growing problem. The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of students pertaining their entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability. Validated Entrepreneurship- and Employability Scales were used to determine entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability perception. A total of 293 students from a South African University participated in this study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, histograms, Pearson correlation, MANOVA and ANOVA. The findingsof this studyshow that studentâ€™sperceptions indicated that if they haveamore entrepreneurial outlook, it could strongly increase their employability. They also do not think that after the completion of their degrees that they would be more employable. A significance difference was found between year level of study, race, age, and perception of entrepreneurial outlook and employability variables of the students.They seem to have a realistic view when it comes to the risk of possible unemployment for some time after graduation. Based on these findings, it is suggested that introducing entrepreneurship training and employability programs (skills development) to students during the completion of their higher education career, could assist in the reduction of youth unemployment in South Africa.

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“…The definitions can be quite simple describing an entrepreneur as "someone who creates a new enterprise" (Low, 1988). Other definitions are quite complex-"one who is self-employed and who initiates, organizes, manages and takes responsibility for business" (Raguz &Matic, 2011). It is still unclear how students in different programs and at different levels of education define being an entrepreneur.…”

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Students’ perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, a cross- program and cross- cultural comparison

Olszewska

2015

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Background: It is definitely crucial to develop a spirit for entrepreneurship amongst young people since new business development supports prosperity of any country on the planet, especially developing ones. Yet, there seems to be a generally prevailing trend for students to pursue corporate careers despite declaring a strong willingness to open a business. Aim: The purpose of this study is to examine which factors, perceptions and attitudes have the most significant impact on the students' intention to start up their own company and how it changes according to educational level and study programs across countries. Methods: The empirical research was conducted on 193 students between 18-40 years old, across 16 nations, who provided answers for the survey on their perceptions of entrepreneurship-related issues. The 24 question survey covered the following areas: demographic data, students actual entrepreneurial experience, motivations, impact of studies and family, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, perceived success factors, best sources of financing and barriers. Findings: First, it is surprising that an extremely small group of students (9.84%) have their own business, 26.9% works for a corporation, and nearly one in four students already tried to open a firm and failed. The intent to establish a company in the future is declared by 161 students although a greater number of students consider themselves entrepreneurial. Second, my study shows that bachelor students are highly influenced by family when showing entrepreneurial intentions and consider family as the best source of financing future business; master students on the contrary declare not to be influenced by family and indicate EU funds as well as own savings as the best business financing options. Importantly, nearly 80% of students from Western European countries consider entrepreneurial personality as something that can be developed, on the contrary students from the Middle East in almost 70% treat it as an inborn trait. Third, this paper highlights that the most desirable characteristic in an entrepreneur are differently perceived by law students, management students and finance students-being creativity, leadership skills and diversity management skills respectively. Lastly, when starting a company lawyers regard the team as the decisive factor, management students see the window of opportunity as the prerequisite and finance students-the resources. Value: This paper indicates students' entrepreneurial intention patterns and suggests the most common perceptions of entrepreneurship by the young generation.

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Students Perceptions and Intentions Towards Enterpreneurship: The Empirical Findings From the University of Dubrovnik-Croatia

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Tertiary Students� Attitude towards Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana

Tertiary Students� Attitude towards Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana

South Africa's Youth Unemployment Dilemma: Whose Baby is it anyway?

Students’ perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, a cross- program and cross- cultural comparison

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