Enlightenment of China’s University Teachers’ Entrepreneurial Awareness for Entrepreneurship Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452198945
Author(s):  
Jinchen Du ◽  
Zi Ye ◽  
Fengting Peng ◽  
Zihan Wang ◽  
Zhanqiu Diao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Fuzzy Evaluation ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Participation Motivation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
Preparation Period

This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to study the understanding of China’s university teachers (hereinafter referred to as teachers) on the preparation period of entrepreneurship. Through questionnaire survey, factor analysis and fuzzy evaluation, we get the classification of the factors of entrepreneurship by teachers, including education factors, social factors, and policy factors.Teachers believe that the most important primary influencing factors of entrepreneurship formation is founders’ fundamentals, the most important secondary influencing factors is social factors. In addition, the main impact of teacher entrepreneurship awareness on entrepreneurship education is as follows: in the competition and practice of entrepreneurial projects, on-campus entrepreneurial teachers mainly participate as assistants and they are quite passive. It may be because that their participation motivation is departed from the purpose of entrepreneurship. Off-campus entrepreneurship tutors focus more on the ability of the social entrepreneurial team to marketize the products or services.

scholarly journals Drivers of unhygienic desludging practices in unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-526
Author(s):  
Amour Seleman ◽  
Sara Gabrielsson ◽  
Tolly S. A. Mbwette ◽  
Richard Kimwaga
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Urban Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene

Abstract Desludging is considered a key step in urban sanitation improvement. Nevertheless, in most urban unplanned settlements, desludging is performed in an unhygienic manner, risking public health. This study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the underlying factors for unhygienic desludging in three urban unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Factors for unhygienic desludging were analysed using logistic regression analysis and the Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IBM-WASH), respectively. It was found that 23.7% of the surveyed houses practised unhygienic desludging. Plot physical inaccessibility, outdated laws that stipulate low penalties and the lack of routine data were found to be key contextual factors. Furthermore, perceived inability to control unhygienic desludging among community members and the lack of feeling of shame among those performing unhygienic desludging are the key psycho-social factors. Technological factors contributing to continued practice of unhygienic desludging can be linked to the weakness in existing desludging technologies and general skepticism about the performance of manual desludging hand pumps. This paper concludes that unhygienic desludging in Dar es Salaam is likely to continue unless such factors are considered and integrated into the city's sanitation improvement plans.

scholarly journals The Linguistic Behaviours of the Pupils of the Elementary Education and the Social Factors that Condition Them: Surveys of the Linguistic Behaviours of the Pupils of Elementary Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Gazmira Birce ◽  
Esat Demo
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
The City

Abstract The purpose of this study is to discover the way of speaking of pupils of elementary education, their linguistic behaviour, their speech, writing and speaking. The study aims to find the slinguistic factors that affect the pupils′ way of speaking, but also to find the other factors such as social factors which affect or limit the student’s speech. The participants in the study are the pupils of elementary school, particularly the pupils of fourth and fifth grades, to study their speech, the factors that affect it and if they speak according to the standard language. The study is conducted with the pupils of the fourth grade of “Dino Ismaili” school, because there is where we both work. We also conducted a conversation with the pupils to see their way of speaking and expression of thoughts. We also filled in some questionnaires in three schools of the city of Fier. The methods that we used are a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, we used surveys and questionnires. The data of the study revealed that the factors that affect the speech are: age, gender, ethnic group, social background, family and two social factors such as social economic group and the parent’s level of education. Other factors are book reading, TV and other children programs, conversation with peers and parents etc.

scholarly journals Influencing Factors and Social Media Reflections of Bakery Products Consumption in Romania

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3411
Author(s):  
Georgiana-Raluca Lădaru ◽  
Marian Siminică ◽  
Maria Claudia Diaconeasa ◽  
Diana Maria Ilie ◽  
Carmen-Elena Dobrotă ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Bakery Products ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Less Developed Country

Bakery products, and bread specifically, represent an important part of the Romanian diet. Whether this situation is motivated by quality factors or by quantitative factors is an important aspect that needs to be investigated. In addition, the relation between peoples’ interest in a particular product such as bread during a crisis period should point out important characteristics of that population. Aiming at determining both the influencing factors of bakery product consumption and the importance given to this type of product in the media during a crisis, this empirical study highlights the profound connections between income level and the fear of not having food security for the people of a less developed country such as Romania. The study considers the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to reach its objectives. The results point to a strong reliance of the respondents on cheap white-flour bakery products in their regular diet, and a significant increase in interest in bakery products during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Analysis on the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings based on FISM-BN

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252138
Author(s):  
Junlong Peng ◽  
Jing Zhou ◽  
Fanyi Meng ◽  
Yan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Causal Reasoning ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Hidden Cost ◽  
The Cost

Facing the pressure of environment, sustainable development is the demand of the current construction industry development. Prefabricated construction technologies has been actively promoted in China. Cost has always been one of the important factors in the development of prefabricated buildings. The hidden cost of prefabricated buildings has a great impact on the total cost of the project, and it exists in the whole process of building construction. In this paper innovatively studies the cost of prefabricated buildings from the perspective of hidden cost. In order to analysis the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings, the influencing factor index system in terms of design, management, technology, policy and environment has been established, which includes 13 factors in total. And the hidden cost analysis model has been proposed based on FISM-BN, this model combines fuzzy interpretive structure model(FISM) with Bayesian network(BN). This model can comprehensively analyze the hidden cost through the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. And the analysis process is dynamic, not fixed at a certain point in time to analyze the cost. We can get the internal logical relationship among the influencing factors of the hidden cost, and present it in the form of intuitive chart by FISM-BN. Furthermore the model could not only predict the probability of the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings and realize in-time control through causal reasoning, but also predict the posterior probability of other influencing factors through diagnostic reasoning when the hidden cost occurs and find out the key factors that lead to the hidden cost. Then the final influencing factors are determined after one by one check. Finally, the model is demonstrated on the hidden cost analysis of prefabricated buildings the probability of recessive cost is 26%. In the analysis and control of the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings, scientific and effective decision-making and reference opinions are provided for managers.

scholarly journals Determinants and Attitudes of Women on Empowerment through MFIs

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kirigiti Josephat ◽  
Arnold Kabyemela Fulment ◽  
Benta Matunga
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Analyse Data

Empowerment is a process, and it does not occur automatically. This has necessitated several studies to have different findings about the evidence for women empowerment. This is because empowerment is a continuous and constantly evolving process. This necessitates investigation of the factors which determine women empowerment in specific areas. This paper examined social factors which determine women empowerment in Kondoa District. Moreover, it establishes the level of attitude towards women empowerment. To determine factors and attitudes towards women empowerment, a survey was done at the household level for both women who are members and those who are not members of Microfinance Institutions in Kondoa District. A purposeful method was used to obtain a sample of 415 women involved in this study whereby 214 were members and 201 were nonmembers of financial institutions. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized to collect and analyse data. Eight factors were analyzed to establish their association with women empowerment. Out of the eight factors, only five factors which include marital status [OR = 1.207], level of education [1.122], number of years lived in the area (residence) [1.018], microfinance membership [2.462] and residence area (urban) [1.008] were positively associated with women empowerment. The women’s attitude towards their empowerment is positive contrary to most men. The study recommends women to work hard with financial support received as they are key players for their success.

Influencing factors of digital transformation: management or IT is the driving force?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ko ◽  
Péter Fehér ◽  
Tibor Kovacs ◽  
Ariel Mitev ◽  
Zoltán Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
It Departments ◽  
Role Of It

Purpose This research aims to discuss the success of digital transformation focusing on the role of IT and management commitment in digitalization together with sectorial relevance as influencing factors. According to the literature, these dimensions are key elements of digitalization, and there is no consensus on their decisiveness. The authors measure the success of digital transformation with the digital innovation. The research is part of ongoing work, in which the IT-related practice of Hungarian organizations has been explored on an annual basis since 2009. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology is a combined one; both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied including surveying digital transformation literature, interviews with key representatives of Hungarian organizations, developing a survey to collect quantitative data, data collection and processing with PLS-SEM. Findings The results revealed that the digital innovations are strongly determined by business, management commitment and, to a far lesser extent, by strategy. In the case of digital transformation, the role of IT departments and the services they provide are less relevant. Research limitations/implications The most important limitation of the research is the size and composition of the sample. Results do not present the situation of a specific industrial sector. Originality/value Digital technologies influence and disrupt practically every industry; the development of information and communication technology has changed economies all over the world. Decisive factors of digital transformations are widely researched, but there is no consensus about them. This research contributes to understanding the role of IT department and their services in this process together with leadership, sectorial relevance as influencing factors.

scholarly journals Survival and Growth in Innovative Technology Entrepreneurship: A Mixed-Methods Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stelios Eliakis ◽  
Dimosthenis Kotsopoulos ◽  
Angeliki Karagiannaki ◽  
Katerina Pramatari
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Maturity Stage ◽  
Life Cycle Approach ◽  
Technology Entrepreneurship ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Survival And Growth ◽  
Evolutionary Growth

Innovative technology enterprises are recognized internationally as an important pillar in modern economic activity. This paper presents the findings from a research combining qualitative and quantitative methods, with the specific goal of identifying and verifying the characteristics that affect their survival and growth. Results from an in-depth longitudinal qualitative case study, that examines a mature and constantly growing (in its 10-year operation) technologically innovative enterprise, reveal that a number of characteristics pertaining to both the profile of the entrepreneurial team, as well as of the employees, significantly affect company survival and growth in this context. Moreover, we recognize and analyze three stages in its evolution: an initial “evolutionary” growth (infancy and youth), followed by a “revolutionary” (crisis), and a second “evolutionary” (maturity) stage. Our findings are further corroborated and enriched through a survey with N = 27 entrepreneurs in innovative technology startups. We contribute to existing literature on innovative technology entrepreneurship, by identifying characteristics that entrepreneurs and employees should bear, towards its survival and growth. Moreover, a practical application of the life cycle approach is described for technologically innovative companies. Finally, a specific prescription that can help guide future theoretical and practical endeavors in innovative technology entrepreneurship is also provided accordingly.

scholarly journals PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF TEACHER BURNOUT IN GEORGIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Maya Bitsadze ◽  
Marine Japaridze
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Teacher Burnout ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Control School ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Findings

The study aimed to identify personal and social factors having impact on teacher burnout in Georgia. The survey was conducted on 373 Georgian school teachers. Teacher burnout phenomena was studied in connection with psychological factor such as locus of control and social factors - school climate dimensions: Principals' attitude to teachers, teachers' attitude to colleagues and to students. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used for the research. The highest teacher burnout was identified on Emotional Exhaustion subscale of burnout. Correlatios were confirmed between burnout and locus of control, school climate variables and burnout, teacher burnout and number of students. The research findings are important as teacher burnout identification and its prevention is closely connected to teacher well-being and health ultimately having impact on teaching quality. Key words: burnout, locus of control, principal, school climate, teacher.

The Status of Livelihood Vulnerability and Its CopingCapacities of Urban Squatters in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal

Patan Pragya ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Chhabi Ram Baral
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Status

Urban poverty is one of multidimensional issue in Nepal. Increasing immigration from the outer parts of Kathmandu due to rural poverty, unemployment and weak security of the lives and the properties are core causes pushing people into urban areas. In this context how squatter urban area people sustain their livelihoods is major concern. The objectives of the study are to find out livelihood assets and capacities squatters coping with their livelihood vulnerability in adverse situation. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are applied for data collection. It is found that squatters social security is weak, victimized by severe health problems earning is not regular with lack of physical facilities and overall livelihood is critical. This study helps to understand what the changes that have occurred in livelihood patterns and how poor people survive in urban area.

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