Entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of university students

Purpose of the study: This research study aims to measure the entrepreneurial attitude of female university students and investigates the factors contributing to the development of entrepreneurial attitude among female students in Pakistan. The core objective of the study was to develop entrepreneurial attitudes among females and make them capable to adopt small-scale businesses. Methodology: A quantitative approach was employed to measure the entrepreneurial attitude of female students and further exploring different factors affecting the attitude of female students towards adopting the business as a career option. In this study, a survey method was used in which quantitative data on female students’ entrepreneurial attitude and different affecting factors were collected from 2576 female students from eight public sector universities located in Punjab province. The entrepreneurial attitude scale was used as a survey instrument originally developed by Ali, Topping, and Tariq (2011) and further modified by the researchers to measure the entrepreneurial attitude of female students. A factor-based scale was developed to measure the effect of these factors on female students’ entrepreneurial attitudes. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and regression techniques by using SPSS 16th Version. Results: Findings of multiple regression analysis exhibits that the role of education is the best contributor to the female students’ entrepreneurial attitude. The other contributing factors are family support, technological assistance, business environment, and social support but their contribution is small whereas government initiatives and legal provisions were not supportive for developing entrepreneurial attitudes among female students. Applications of this study: This study can be useful for arranging entrepreneurial career development programs for the development of the entrepreneurial attitude among female students and make them capable to start their entrepreneurial endeavours. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of this study was to investigate the effects of different familial, social, educational, political, environmental, and legal factors on female students’ entrepreneurial attitudes.

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University Students’ Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intention: The Omani Context

International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science ◽

10.33642/ijbass.v5n5p2 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 9-20

Author(s):

Adil Hassan Bakheet.Ph.D. ◽

Thresiamma Varghese.Ph.D. ◽

Karima Al-Qartoopi ◽

Fahad Al-Hamdi

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽

University Students ◽

Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽

Correlation Matrices ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽

Start Up ◽

Practical Analysis ◽

Student's Attitudes ◽

Self Administered Questionnaire

This study is trying to shed some lights on the ways that entrepreneurship intentions are developed. Depending on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) the study tries to trace the effect of Omani Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) student’s attitudes towards entrepreneurial intentions to start-up. Practical analysis has been carried out on a sample of (2123) HEIs’ students of Oman. Through self-administered questionnaire, the data was collected and analysed using appropriate statistics tools. Hypothesis was tested and correlation matrices were developed to test the correlations between these two variables. The results show that the entrepreneurial attitudes of HEIs’ students in Oman positively related to their entrepreneurial intentions. This relationship between attitudes and intention was measured and it was found that the amount of variation in students’ intentions that is accounted for attitudes is 55 percent. The F ratio is found large 2550.7, which reflects the greater variation in intention that is explained by attitudes.

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Gender and exposure differences in entrepreneurial attitudes of Indian university students

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business ◽

10.1504/ijesb.2021.119728 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 435

Author(s):

Dennis Barber III ◽

Suhail M. Ghouse ◽

Shanan G. Gibson ◽

Michael L. Harris

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes

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Role of gender and exposure on entrepreneurial attitudes of Omani university students

J for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development ◽

10.1504/jibed.2021.112287 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Suhail M. Ghouse ◽

Dennis Barber III ◽

Michael L. Harris ◽

Shanan G. Gibson

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes

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Role of gender and exposure on entrepreneurial attitudes of Omani university students

J for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development ◽

10.1504/jibed.2021.10031623 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Shanan Gibson ◽

Michael Harris ◽

Suhail M. Ghouse ◽

Dennis Barber III

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes

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Przedsiębiorczość a edukacja akademicka – analiza badań studentów Wydziału Zarządzania studiów stacjonarnych I stopnia Politechniki Rzeszowskiej

Przedsiębiorczość - Edukacja ◽

10.24917/20833296.8.8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 78-95

Author(s):

Jacek Strojny ◽

Katarzyna Horska

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Attitudes And Behaviors ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽

And Behaviors ◽

High Level

The paper discusses aspects connected with entrepreneurship amongst university students. It underlines the influence of the culture and socialization while creating the entrepreneurial personality. The research aimed at measuring the level of entrepreneurial attributes among students of the Faculty of of Management. The study confirmed the relatively high level of entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors among the research sample. The realization of assumed hypotheses allowed additional conclusions to be drawn.

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ACTITUDES EMPRENDEDORAS QUE INCIDEN EN EL DESARROLLO EMPRESARIAL DE LOS ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS DE INSTITUCIONES DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR (IES), EN MÉXICO (ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDES THAT INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS [HEI] IN MEXICO)

ENERO-JUNIO 2021 - Revista Innovaciones de Negocios ◽

10.29105/rinn18.35-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (35) ◽

Author(s):

Maria Margarita Carrera Sanchez ◽

Abel Partida Puente ◽

Luis Alberto Villarreal Villarreal ◽

Antonio Carlos Cantú Villarreal

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Higher Education ◽

University Students ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Business Development ◽

Educación Superior ◽

Educacion Superior ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽

The Social ◽

Estudiantes Universitarios

El emprendimiento es un tema de interés y de actualidad, así como las actitudes emprendedoras, que son parte fundamental en el desarrollo empresarial en los estudiantes en las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES), siendo un tema debatido desde hace algunos años por la mayoría de los países, esto gracias a los grandes aportes en la ciencia y tecnología que han alcanzado a la fecha en el desarrollo económico de cada país. El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo describir y analizar las actitudes emprendedoras que inciden en el desarrollo empresarial de los estudiantes universitarios en las IES. Implementando un análisis estadístico a través de una regresión lineal múltiple a través del software Statical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS v18), mediante la recolección de una encuesta a 457 estudiantes de una universidad mexicana, distribuidos en la carrera de contador público, licenciado en administración, licenciado en tecnologías de información y licenciado en negocios internacionales. La hipótesis planteada en relación con las actitudes emprendedoras que inciden positivamente en el desarrollo empresarial es contrastada con la población de estudio. Las aportaciones de las actividades realizadas por el desarrollo empresarial de los emprendedores favorecen el entorno y contribuyen en la generación de empleos y desarrollo económico. De tal forma que las actitudes emprendedoras que fueron significativas en el desarrollo empresarial de los estudiantes universitarios son: la Motivación de Logro (ML), la Motivación por Emprender (MPE) y la Actitud Emprendedora Universitaria (AEU), con valor de significancia por debajo del 5%.

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