The Effects of Education on Business Ownership: A Longitudinal Study of Women

Dolinský, A; Caputo, Richard K.; Pasumarty, Kishore; Quazi, Hesan A.

doi:10.1177/104225879301800104

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“…A wide range of studies (Muncuso, 1974;Cooper and Dunkelberg, 1987;Dolinsky et al 1993;Gratner, 1989 ) profiling the demographic characteristics of entrepreneurs is evidenced in the literature. A common trend in all of these studies has been the reliance on descriptive profiles of demographic and personal characteristics, which are then often compared with results derived from similar studies in different country settings.…”

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Success Factors of Entrepreneurs of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Bangladesh

Chowdhury

Alam

Arif

2013

Business and Economic Research

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In order to assess the factors that affect the success of entrepreneurs of small and medium sized enterprises of Bangladesh, survey data were collected from eighty entrepreneurs from the southern region of Bangladesh selected through random sampling technique. Success factors here refer to demographic characteristics and environmental factors that impede the business success of entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises of Bangladesh. The results indicate that that the success of the entrepreneurs was correlated to all independent variables in the study and all hypotheses were supported. Lack of infrastructure, sound political environment, access to market and capital were the major factors that positively hindered the success of the entrepreneurs. Experience and education were positively correlated while age was negatively correlated to success. The regression models fit for regression equations were determined by F statistics. The models indicate positive and statistically significant relationship. Altogether demographic variables explained 26.9% of the total variance in Business and Economic Research ISSN 2162-4860 2013 www.macrothink.org/ber 39 success while environmental variables explained 39.8% of the total variance in success.

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Section: Demographic Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Success Factors of Entrepreneurs of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Bangladesh

Chowdhury

Alam

Arif

2013

Business and Economic Research

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“…Whether entrepreneurship education operates mainly through opportunity perception, skills or through some other unmeasured mechanism (e.g., social capital, personal networks and peer recognition), an important message for policy is that Higher education EFC appears to matter for high-income countries. Overall, the level of an individual"s education is positively associated with his or her entrepreneurial growth aspirations (Autio and Acs, 2007) and entry into and success in selfemployment (Dolinsky et al. 1993;Robinson and Sexton, 1994).…”

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A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model

2008

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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor model combines insights on the allocation of effort into entrepreneurship at the national (adult working age population) level with literature in the Austrian tradition. The model suggests that the relationship between national-level new business activity and the institutional environment, or Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions, is mediated by opportunity perception and the perception of start-up skills in the population. We provide a theory-grounded examination of this model and test the effect of one EFC, education and training for entrepreneurship, on the allocation of effort into new business activity. We find that in high-income countries, opportunity perception mediates fully the relationship between the level of post-secondary entrepreneurship education and training in a country and its rate of new business activity, including high-growth expectation new business activity. The mediating effect of skills perception is weaker. This result accords with the Kirznerian concept of alertness to opportunity stimulating action.

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“…The individuals' level of education attainment contributes to their likelihood of being self-employed (Dolinsky et al, 1993). We classified education attainment into 3 levels, below secondary degree, secondary degree, and post secondary degree.…”

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Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Propensity: Findings from Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Lee

Wong²,

Chua³

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SSRN Journal

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The existing literature identifies a number of antecedent factors that positively influence the propensity of individuals to become entrepreneurs. Key among these is self-efficacy, knowledge of other entrepreneurs and the perception of opportunities. At the same time, current research shows that fear of failure is a major deterrent factor for entrepreneurs taking the entrepreneurial plunge. Using Shane's (2003) individual-opportunity nexus framework as an overarching theory, our study examines how these antecedents and deterrent factors influence the individual's propensity to start a new business in the three East Asian economies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We also test for possible differences in the variables effects on an individual's propensity to start a new business out of necessity versus the perception of opportunity. Importantly, our findings highlight significant location differences among the variables for opportunity-driven start-ups, while no significant differences were found for necessity-driven start-ups. Finally, we discuss the relevant policy implications from our findings.

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The Effects of Education on Business Ownership: A Longitudinal Study of Women

Cited by 73 publications

References 8 publications

Success Factors of Entrepreneurs of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Bangladesh

Success Factors of Entrepreneurs of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Bangladesh

A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model

Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Propensity: Findings from Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan

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