Bridging the gap in real estate enterprise: the impact of mentoring on entrepreneurial intentions of real estate students in Nigeria

PurposeThis study investigates the impact of mentoring on real estate students' entrepreneurial intentions with a focus on Nigeria, an emerging African economy. Specifically, the study assessed the influence of mentoring on the entrepreneurial intentions and career preferences of real estate students and analysed the influence of having a real estate mentor on the respondents' perception of the motivators and inhibitors to their entrepreneurial intentions.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a descriptive research approach using closed-ended questionnaires. The study population comprise final year real estate students selected from three federal universities offering Real Estate in southwest Nigeria. Total enumeration was adopted for the study. From a total population of 231 students, a response rate of 69.26%, representing 160 questionnaire were retrieved and found suitable for the analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were employed for data analysis.FindingsThe result shows that the factor structure of the motivators for students who have real estate mentors clustered into four constructs; in order of influence are personal fulfilment/satisfaction, flexibility/financial motives, mentoring/economic influences and personal preferences/prestige and status. Meanwhile, economic/independence, personal preference/fulfilment, financial motives/self-perception and mentoring were the factor clusters influencing intention for real estate enterprise by students who have no real estate mentor. Predominant debacles across both categories of respondents relate to the lack of support and market uncertainty.Practical implicationsThere is a growing body of knowledge exploring the linkages between mentoring and the development of entrepreneurial intentions. However, scant empirical investigations have examined the impact of mentoring on real estate students, especially from the perspectives of emerging markets which are usually characterised by low economic opportunities and where issues of graduate unemployment appear endemic and yet to be appropriately resolved.Originality/valueThis study explores the implications of mentoring on the entrepreneurial intentions of real estate students' from the perspective of an emerging market.

Can a Leader’s Positive Evaluation Improve Occupational Satisfaction of Employees? —— Based on the Empirical Investigation of a Real Estate Enterprise G Province Branch

Employees are the creators of corporate benefits. The level of occupational satisfaction is directly related to the performance of employees and the survival and development of enterprises. Through the analysis of the questionnaire data of 538 employees of the B group G province branch, it is found that the employee's "self-efficacy" is the most affecting the occupational satisfaction of the real estate employees if and only if all the variables work together on the employee occupational satisfaction. There is no significant correlation between "employee and leadership and co-worker relationship", "leading positive evaluation of employees" and occupational satisfaction. The results show that as a new type of enterprise entity, real estate enterprises should pay attention to the incentives for employee performance, continuously promote the management system to be scientific and reasonable, and achieve the organizational recognition of employees and the improvement of occupational satisfaction.

Making a Housing Market in Paris

Alexia Yates’ Selling Paris renders in satisfying empirical detail the agents and institutions, especially the joint-stock sociétés anonymes, that in the last third of the nineteenth century fashioned the Parisian housing market on a new scale, from financing and land acquisition to the management of apartment buildings as investment properties. In its penetrating and exemplary analysis, Selling Paris is destined to anchor new comparisons of the impact of different legal regimes, institutions of finance and real estate enterprise, and balances of public and private power on housing markets and built environments in other cities and nations. By showing how Parisian developers themselves framed a narrative of urban housing as “merchandise” in order to legitimate their financial speculations, Yates also offers her readers critical distance on that paradigm and its associated tendency to treat the social politics as expressions of consumer rights.

Tax avoidance : A Policy of a Company

This research has purpose to find out the effect of leverage, return on asset, size of a company, institutional ownership, fiscal disadvantage compensation, multinational company, diversification company toward Tax avoidance of real estate enterprise enlisted in Indonesia stock exchange (BEI). The population consists of real estate enterprises with number 48 enterprises and are enlisted in BEI since 2012-2016 with number 22 enterprises selected using purposive sampling. The findings of hypothesis testing show: return on asset influencing negatively toward Tax avoidance. Leverage, size of company, institutional ownership, fiscal disadvantage compensation, multinational company, and diversification of company do not influence toward Tax avoidance.