Entrepreneurial Learning in Higher Education: Perceptions, Realities and Collaborative Work from the Stakeholder Point of View

Marques, Ana Paula

doi:10.26417/ejser.v5i1.p255-262

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“…As a result of European, Portuguese, and Spanish directives, entrepreneurial activity has increasingly proved to be one of the privileged channels for ’making the leap’ into the labor market ( European Commission, 2013 ; Marques, 2015 ; Hervas-Oliver et al, 2017 ). Several studies indicate that are the students of business and economics who are more likely to start their own company, once they have higher levels of entrepreneurial intention (e.g., Sieger et al, 2014 ).…”

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Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

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Social entrepreneurship (SE) enables business consolidation, combined with the production of positive impact and improvements in society. Aligned with 2030 Agenda for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to clarify the role of social entrepreneurs, as they are making visible the impact of their creative ideas in several areas, from civic engagement to the environment, health and learning. The main purpose of this study is to specify a model of social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) and explore it by country, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior and how these are mediated by spirituality and optimism. With a convenience sample of 1476 Portuguese and Spanish students, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. For a deeply understanding, variables within the model were compared by country using t-rest, and multivariate analysis was done by each one separately. The mean comparison between countries, demonstrated that there are differences only between perceived behavioral control (PBC), Spirituality, Optimism and SEI, with Portuguese students scoring the highest values, in all variables except Optimism. A mediation path was carried out, and Spirituality mediate a significant effect between the three TPB dimensions in Portuguese students, but not in students from Spain. Finally, after discussing the results, theoretical and practical contributions are analyzed, with regard to the field of SE in Portugal and Spain, and alternatives are pointed out for a more social and sustainable entrepreneurial future.

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Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

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“…Entrepreneurship is increasingly becoming an alternative means of entering the labor market; the result of European and Portuguese directives aimed at universities ( European Commission, 2013 ; Marques, 2015 ). On the one hand, there is consensus that the University can be seen as a means of promoting entrepreneurship among students, and for another the study area is not relevant.…”

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The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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Universities increasingly play an important role in entrepreneurship, which has contributed to gender equality in the business world. The aim of this study is to establish a causal model of entrepreneurial intentions and explore it by gender, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior, and how these are mediated by the individuals’ resilience and psychological well-being. The previous work experience was considered as one of the control variables, in order to analyze whether this influence the entrepreneurial intention. With a convenience sample of 644 Portuguese students, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. For a better understanding, multivariate analyses were performed and each one was individually reported, and for appropriate comparisons by gender, the t-student test was used. The comparison of means, between genders, showed that there are differences only between perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and entrepreneurial intention, with women scoring the highest values, and psychological well-being, with men scoring the higher. A serial mediation path was performed, and psychological resilience was found to mediate a significant effect between perceived behavioral control and intention in females, but not in males. It also mediates a significant effect between attitude and intention in females, but not in males. These results show that attitude is a determining factor for females to become entrepreneurs. Finally, after discussing the results, theoretical and practical contributions are analyzed, with regard to the field of entrepreneurship in Portugal, and alternatives are pointed out for a more entrepreneurial future, reinforcing the role of higher education institutions.

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“…As an example, Marques and Moreira (2013) found that a typical innovative entrepreneur is a man who graduated in engineering, was motivated by opportunity, greater independence and increasing income, had high social capital, and was likely to start a business in knowledgeintensive technological sectors; whilst a typical non-innovative entrepreneur is a woman who graduated in social science, law or education, was motivated by necessity, had low social capital, and was likely to start a business in health care and education sectors. Moreover, another study found that 30.5% of the participants in entrepreneurship support programs in 2007-2013 were engineering, computer-science and technology graduates, and 19% were economics and business studies graduates (Marques et al, 2015). As a consequence, those programs do not provide equal support to different target groups.…”

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“…complementary strategies (Kylaheiko et al, 2011). Moreover, nascent entrepreneurs may be more prone to innovation, despite high failure rates, as typically their profile is younger and more educated than the average incumbent entrepreneur (Marques et al, 2015). The education level of the entrepreneur is partly mediated by innovation variables, in accordance to the double view of education as both providing knowledge and signaling ability.…”

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Export activity, innovation and institutions in Southern European nascent entrepreneurship

Marqués

2019

Economics

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This paper studies the role of personal characteristics, perceptual variables and countrylevel conditioning (financial environment, government quality and support, education quality and entrepreneurship know-how, innovation environment and support, business infrastructure, entrepreneurial culture and society, and gender roles) in explaining the export propensity and intensity of nascent entrepreneurs in four Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), using Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) dataset in 2003-2010. Due to the nascent nature of the business, export activity is starting or about to start at the time of the survey and, for that reason, it cannot be studied using theoretical frameworks based on productivity heterogeneity, which has not yet been measured. In this sample of nascent businesses, there is no evidence of a selection effect into exporting and the individual-level factors influencing export propensity and intensity are identical. The most relevant individual-level variables facilitating export activity are new products, new technology, graduate education, and entrepreneurship networks. The most relevant country-level factors facilitating export activity are the availability of funding, the national government's macroeconomic support, and the support for new technology.

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Entrepreneurial Learning in Higher Education: Perceptions, Realities and Collaborative Work from the Stakeholder Point of View

Abstract: In recent years, Portuguese universities have diversified their strategies for the promotion of entrepreneurial education among (under/post)

Cited by 8 publications

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Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

Export activity, innovation and institutions in Southern European nascent entrepreneurship

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