Entrepreneurial Motivations and Characteristics of Niger Delta Youths: An Exploratory Study

Aligba, Anthony O.; Fusch, Gene E.

doi:10.5590/josc.2017.09.1.08

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“…According to Dimova and Pela (2018), this theory drives various entrepreneurial behaviors and intentions to start business ventures such as starting new companies. Existing research has linked planning-behavior theory to personality factors (NFA, RT and SE), entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial intentions (kautonen, Geldren & Tornikoski, 2013;Jepchirchir, Korir & Lagat, 2019;Aligba & Fusch, 2017). A study by Torniskoski and Maalaoui (2019) confirms that entrepreneurship education reshapes student behavior and shifts towards entrepreneurial intent to start a business.…”

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Mediating Effects of Entrepreneurship Education on Personality Dimensions and Venture Creation of Nigerian Graduates: An Empirical Approach

EMENIKE,

Ogechi Anastasia

2023

JEMBA

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The study examines the mediating effects of entrepreneurial education on the need for achievement, risk-taking, self-efficacy, and venture creation among Nigerian graduates. A targeted sampling technique was used for the selection of the corps members deployed to the Oyo State. Structural equation modelling was used to analyze the data with the aid of STATA version 15. The results reveal that entrepreneurship education has a positive association with the need for achievement, and self-efficacy. Further reveals that entrepreneurship education has a positive relationship with risk-taking but insignificant. It was also revealed that need for achievement has inverse relationship with venture creation, while self-efficacy has a positive but insignificant relationship with venture creation. There is evidence that taking risks is positively and significantly related to starting a business. This suggests that entrepreneurship education serves as a platform to encourage personality traits like the desire for success, risk-taking, self- efficacy, and entrepreneurial intentions to venture into business. The study, therefore, recommends that policymakers should make entrepreneurship education mandatory for students at all levels, that teachers should involve students in practical work, and that the government should create an environment that is conducive to the growth of entrepreneurship in the nation. This will significantly contribute to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Mediating Effects of Entrepreneurship Education on Personality Dimensions and Venture Creation of Nigerian Graduates: An Empirical Approach

EMENIKE,

Ogechi Anastasia

2023

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“…Kusumajanto [18] also affirms that entrepreneurial pedagogy has a direct relationship with the development of one's personality and professional growth. Similarly, Aligba and Fusch [19] reiterate that entrepreneurial pedagogy empowers the students to venture into entrepreneurial businesses. In the same vein, Reitan [20] states that entrepreneurial pedagogy is sine-qua-non to the capacities of students to create entrepreneurial ventures.…”

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Entrepreneurship Pedagogy and Entrepreneurial Intention among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria: Mediating Effect of Educators’ Role Model

Akinbo

Abodunde

2022

SAJSSE

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This study examines the mediating effect of educators’ role models on the relationship between entrepreneurship pedagogy and entrepreneurial intention, a descriptive survey research was adopted in this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to select seven (7) universities that are duly accredited by Nigeria University Commission (NUC) to run the Entrepreneurship program at the undergraduate level, while simple random sampling was employed to select 283 respondents as a sample size using Slovin, 1963 for the study. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to analyse the data with STATA version 15. The results reveal that entrepreneurship pedagogy has a substantial and positive association with entrepreneurship intention among students with beta-value of 0.603 and t-value of 6.67. Evidence also proves that entrepreneurship pedagogy has a direct correlation with educators’ role models with beta-value of 0.756 and t-value of 11.74. Furthermore, the result shows that educators’ role model influences entrepreneurial intention in a substantial and positive way with beta-value of 0.193 and t-value of 2.12. It was also discovered that educators’ role model partially mediates between entrepreneurship pedagogy and entrepreneurial intentions with a beta-value of 0.1460 and t-value of 2.08. Subsequently, the study recommends that the teaching methods should be, do-it-yourself approach, learning by doing, or problem-based learning. Also, Nigerian universities should adopt teaching strategies that work, such as, individual and group projects, inviting guest speakers and especially business simulation activities, in order to spark the interest of students and start-ups. This will go a long way toward educating students about the entrepreneurship process and identifying business opportunities.

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“…However, successes in educational attainment helps in the entrepreneurial advancement of any business operator (Olokundun, Ibidunni, Peter, Amaihian, Moses, &Iyiola, 2017). This, in essence, will create the necessary survival impetus to achieve impactful goals in many business activities (Aligba& Fusch, 2017).…”

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Level of Education and Entreprenuerial Risk Attitudes of Market Women in Lagos, Nigeria

Genty¹,

Ajemunigbohun²,

ORESHILE³

2022

LJERHRM

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Every economy who intends to grow will never put women entrepreneurial drives and skills at the backspace as they serve as engine room for every prosperous economy. Nonetheless, female entrepreneurs lack most often the financial access and the right human capacity development, which impinge their business growth due to their various mindsets’ drawbacks created by poor risk attitude. This study therefore is specifically aimed at evaluating the relationship between level of education and entrepreneurial risk attitudes with particular reference to market women in Lagos, Nigeria. The study adopted questionnaire as a source of data collection among 123 respondents, drawn from 15 purposive selected markets in Lagos, Nigeria. Correlation technique approach was adopted to explain the relationships between the measuring constructs in the study. The findings from the study revealed a not significant relationship between entrepreneurs’ level of education and their entrepreneurial risk attitudes (r = .080, p = .380 > 0.05). The study further established a correlation between level of education and entrepreneurial risk attitudes dimensions (risk aversion, risk neutrality and risk preference) where no association exist between level of education and risk aversion (r = .154, p = .089> 0.01). However, a strong positive and significant relationship were found between level of education and risk neutrality (r = .526, p = .000< 0.01) and risk preference (r = .524, p = .000< 0.01) respectively. The study conclusion showed that risk seeking behaviour is not moderated in the entrepreneurial pursuit of market women in Lagos State. The responses of the respondents largely proved that the level of education among market women hasn’t created any form of risk consciousness. Thus, the researchers recommended that risk management education should be considered as a focal point in the development of the market women psychologically and sociologically to get attracted to insurance in order to manage possible entrepreneurial failure.

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Entrepreneurial Motivations and Characteristics of Niger Delta Youths: An Exploratory Study

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Mediating Effects of Entrepreneurship Education on Personality Dimensions and Venture Creation of Nigerian Graduates: An Empirical Approach

Mediating Effects of Entrepreneurship Education on Personality Dimensions and Venture Creation of Nigerian Graduates: An Empirical Approach

Entrepreneurship Pedagogy and Entrepreneurial Intention among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria: Mediating Effect of Educators’ Role Model

Level of Education and Entreprenuerial Risk Attitudes of Market Women in Lagos, Nigeria

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