PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore the entrepreneurship profile of Turkish university students and to make an evaluation for their entrepreneurship orientation by comparing them with non‐entrepreneurially inclined students.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, six traits, namely need for achievement, locus of control, risk taking propensity, tolerance for ambiguity, innovativeness and self‐confidence, are used to define the entrepreneurial profile of students. The study is conducted on a random sample of fourth year university students (n = 400) from two Turkish universities. The question “what are you planning to do after graduation?” was asked to students in order to discriminate between those who are entrepreneurially inclined and those who are not. Respondents who have a response saying that “I'm planning to form my own business venture” are accepted as potential entrepreneurs. Then, the entrepreneurial traits of these students are subjected to a comparative analysis with other students who do not plan to start their own businesses, and thus are not included in the group of potential entrepreneurs. In short, a 40‐item questionnaire is administered to students, with questions related to demographic variables, entrepreneurial inclination, and six entrepreneurial traits above cited (with Likert type items).FindingsThe results of the t‐tests showed that, except for tolerance for ambiguity and self‐confidence, all entrepreneurial traits are found to be higher in entrepreneurially inclined students, as compared to entrepreneurially non‐inclined students. That is, these students are found to have higher risk taking propensity, internal locus of control, higher need for achievement and higher innovativeness.Research limitations/implicationsThe study comprises fourth year students only, and the percentage of students in the sample who wish to be entrepreneurs is quite low (18 per cent). Also, there are only two universities included in the sample. Further study can be conducted on a wider basis to lead to more general conclusions.Practical implicationsThis study provides insight into entrepreneurship education, as to which entrepreneurial characteristics can be developed to raise good entrepreneurs.Originality/valueThis study contributes to understanding the differences between characteristics of entrepreneurially inclined and non‐inclined students at the edge of graduation.

No abstract

Future work will become more digital-oriented and the term digital talent will become the essence of the future workforce. In a digital work design, digital talents, digital fluency, digital networks, and digital platforms will be the most pronounced words. As a result of the rapid digital transformation effort all over the world, the huge increase in the demand for digital skills has led to a worldwide digital talent gap. To close this gap and to expand the digital talent ecosystem in a country, corporations, governments, and higher education institutions should act together. Universities have to understand the digital capability needs of employers to prepare digitally employable graduates for digitally dominated business environments. Governments should attract digital talents to simplify and digitize their services and operations. Corporations should attract digital talents to succeed in digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage. In this study, we emphasized the effect of digital transformation and digital talent shortage on governments, corporations, and universities. Then we highlighted the importance of their collaboration to develop and sustain digitally talented people in a country. We hope this study will be an encouraging guide to enhance partnerships between governments, corporations, and universities to better manage the digital talent shortage.

Concern over the concept of sustainability that we come across in nearly all fields today is also increasing in business science each passing day. Main reason of this concern is that enterprises are in an effort to exist in future. In order to secure their future and maintain their corporate sustainability, they need to adopt a sense of management in sustainability perspective that involve economical, social and environmental dimensions and in direction of corporate management principles. Enterprises in direction of this sense, dealing with each dimension of sustainability without ignorance and with a balanced approach, constitute their corporate strategies and publish their study devoted to this through sustainability and/or activity reports. By all means; the most important source of an enterprise is human factor. And so, to be able to talk about a sense of management in sustainability frames, undeniable support of human resources unit must be accepted. This study aims to investigate, with content analysis method, to what extent enterprises involved in BIST Sustainability Endex accommodate with sustainability human resources process and practices categorized as a result of a study by Guerci and Pedrini (2014).

In the literature the effect of organizational learning on firm performance have been investigated in many studies and many times it has been shown that organizational learning has a significant and positive effect on firm performance. But today most of the studies investigate the effects of third variables in this relationship. In this study we focused on the mediating effect of knowledge management on the relationship between organizational learning and firm performance (financial and operational performance). In order to test our research purpose we prepared a questionnaire and conducted our survey on firms that operate in and around Istanbul. We collected 113 valid questionnaires from middle and senior managers of firms. The collected data from questionnaires were analysed with SPSS and AMOS programs. Analyses results indicated that knowledge management has a mediating effect on the relationship between organizational learning and firm performance (full mediating effect on organizational learning-operational performance relation and partial mediating effect on organizational learning-financial performance relation).