The Effect of Career Decisions on Entrepreneurial Intention Levels of University Students Studying Sport Sciences

Abstract

This study investigates the entrepreneurial intention levels and career decisions of a sample of 340 university students studying sport sciences. Entrepreneurship refers to a career-related choice that is driven by a risk-taking and innovation imperative. Entrepreneurs of the future are expected to make their career related choices well before they move into labor markets. In this context, this study attempts to designate young adults' entrepreneurial intentions which are considered to be highly related with their career decisions. The study also tests the potential effects of career decisions on entrepreneurial intentions. The findings of the study evidence the significant effect of conscious career choice on entrepreneurial propensity. A blind career choice is found to be also correlated with entrepreneurial intentions, albeit less so than the conscious career choice. The environmental factors subscale of career choice proves to be insignificant in terms of entrepreneurial propensity within the scope of this study's sample group. Findings are discussed with a view to practical implications.

Students' ideal career in the 4.0 Industrial

“…One factor that has been recognized as very important for developing behavior and entrepreneurial intentions is entrepreneurship education (Ahmed et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2019). The entrepreneurship personality can foster intention in entrepreneurship, which will influence individual decisions to determine a career in the Industry 4.0 era (Gorgievski et al, 2018;Yildiz, 2018). The support and role of the family, especially parents, of course, is needed by students to become an entrepreneur.…”

“…CC, EI and FC in the Industry 4.0 Era Some recent studies suggest that career center units can influence student entrepreneurship intention, followed by entrepreneurial career planning (Engel et al, 2017;Yildiz, 2018). Career center units can encourage students to be interested in planning an entrepreneurial career through the provision of adequate knowledge, concepts, strategies and entrepreneurial skills (Boldureanu et al, 2020;Memon et al, 2015).…”

“…A strong entrepreneurship personality determines students' entrepreneurship intention (Godwin et al, 2016;Mustapha & Selvaraju, 2015). An essential entrepreneurship personality is used as an essential tool or opportunity in one's early career decisions (Yildiz, 2018). There have been many studies that show a positive and significant contribution of the influence of the entrepreneurship personality on entrepreneurship intention and career planning of students in the Industry 4.0 era (Godwin et al, 2016;Yildiz, 2018).…”

The Level of Student Career Center Management and Future Career Planning of Students Universitas Negeri Malang: A Descriptive Analysis

“…The current situation, where graduates of educational institutions have difficulty finding a decent job because of the economic crisis. Career Center services at colleges around the world have introduced entrepreneurship in an effort to promote entrepreneurship and professional entrepreneurship careers [5], [14], [29].…”

“…Looking at the rapidly growing technological environment of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution era, it brings out business opportunities open to students. Entrepreneurship personality can foster entrepreneurship intention that later affects individual decisions to determine his future career [5]. Entrepreneurship development is a big challenge this era, it's a global community challenge [6].…”