Entrepreneurship education and job creation for tourism graduates in Ghana

Owusu-Mintah, Samuel B.

doi:10.1108/et-01-2014-0001

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“…There are also studies available from Australia by Mitra [58], and from Africa, including Jesselyn and Mitchell in South Africa [59], Owusu-Mintah in Ghana [60], and Olokundun et al [61]. In the case of the Americas, studies were reported from Canada by Chrisman, Hynes, and Fraser [62], the United States by Dill [63], Chile by Bernasconi [64] and Argentina by Postigo, and Tamborini [65].…”

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Factors Affecting Green Entrepreneurship Intentions in Business University Students in COVID-19 Pandemic Times: Case of Ecuador

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This research assesses the influence of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support through entrepreneurial self-efficacy over green entrepreneurial intentions. A total of 532 business students in Ecuador participated in an online survey. Eight questions were focused on demographic information, and twenty-seven questions evaluated the green entrepreneurship intentions of students. An SEM-PLS technical analysis was used. The results showed that educational support for developing entrepreneurship (0.296), conceptual support for developing entrepreneurship (0.123), and country support for entrepreneurship (0.188) had a positive influence on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and that entrepreneurial self-efficacy had a positive influence (0.855) on gren entrepreneurial intentions. The model explained 73.1% of the green entrepreneurial intentions. Outcomes of the bootstrapping test were used to evaluate if the path coefficients are significant. This study showed the impacts of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support on the entrepreneur’s ability to carry out green entrepreneurship were positive. This information can help universities develop strategic plans to achieve ecological ventures and ensure students have the necessary skills to do so on campus. The research findings also may be helpful for the governments in establishing new norms to promote entrepreneurship. The novelty is based on using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique.

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Factors Affecting Green Entrepreneurship Intentions in Business University Students in COVID-19 Pandemic Times: Case of Ecuador

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“…In a number of cases (e.g. Owusu-Mintah, 2014; Packham et al , 2010; Solesvik et al , 2013), the entrepreneurship education being reviewed appears essentially to be the narrower and more traditional “enterprise for new venture creation” variety – but others recognise that there are broader possibilities. Hartshorn and Hannon (2005), for instance, note that there are “fundamental and diverse beliefs about the meaning of enterprise and entrepreneurship” (p. 616) and these include “learning for enterprise (which) aims to prepare students for survival and success in their own economic futures, “to help develop enterprising people [with] an attitude of self-reliance” […].…”

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Is “entrepreneurship” the problem in entrepreneurship education?

Bridge

2017

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Purpose In entrepreneurship education there are different interpretations of entrepreneurship which leads to considerable confusion. The purpose of this paper is to consider whether it is the word entrepreneurship itself which is the source of this problem. Design/methodology/approach This paper seeks, not to examine the different meanings of entrepreneurship in an education context, but instead to explore the confusion those different meanings can cause. Findings The word entrepreneurship is used as a label for what sometimes are essentially different things. But, even when a difference is acknowledged, the application of the same label implies a misleading commonality. A result is that false parallels can be drawn and differences among the requirements of funders, providers and consumers of entrepreneurship education can go unrecognised and not addressed. Attempts to restrict the label “entrepreneurship” to some uses and to use the label “enterprise” for others fail because it is only partially done and the two words are still often used interchangeably. Therefore, because the label “entrepreneurship” is the source of this problem, it is suggested that its use should be dropped. Practical implications Dropping the word entrepreneurship would force the various stakeholders in entrepreneurship education to specify more clearly what they want and/or expect to get from it. That could lead to clearer debate and better resolution of misunderstandings. Originality/value Possibly because we are accustomed to using the word entrepreneurship in different ways we fail to see and address the confusion that causes. This paper suggests a change.

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“…This is probably because of the importance of investigating the development of entrepreneurship (and thus entrepreneurship education) to their respective regions, given its significance to job creation and graduate employment. Solomon (2007) indicated that the development of the education of entrepreneurship emanated from USA, and that it has since spread to the other parts of the world, including Europe (Volkmann and Audretsch, 2017), China (Li and Liu, 2011), Philippines (Velasco, 2013), Ghana (Matlay and Owusu-Mintah, 2014) and Malaysia (Ahmad and Buchanan, 2015). Entrepreneurship education contributes to the well-being of society and provides greater benefits for students who study entrepreneurship compared to those who do not attend entrepreneurship courses.…”

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“…An extensive body of research was conducted in entrepreneurship education: entrepreneurship education research (Yatu et al, 2018); entrepreneurship's influence on other disciplines (Canziani and Welsh, 2019); students' entrepreneurship-education mind-set (Cui et al, 2019); entrepreneurship education and student intention (K€ uttim et al, 2014); entrepreneurship education and job creation (Matlay and Owusu-Mintah, 2014); status of entrepreneurship education (Alakaleek, 2019).…”

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Entrepreneurship education: systematic literature review and future research directions

Mohamed

Ali

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to further understanding of entrepreneurship education, highlighting current trends and directions for further research.Design/methodology/approachThis paper used systematic literature review of published articles to collect, evaluate, and interpret entrepreneurship education literature from selected databases between 2009 and 2019. The study reviewed 90 articles from the entrepreneurship education literature. There are several different topics that have been analyzed; with the most researched topic being analyzed was focusing on entrepreneurship education development.FindingsEntrepreneurship education programs have become an increasingly important focus of attention in recent years. This paper deeply investigates the literature on entrepreneurship education to help entrepreneurship education decision makers to develop better solutions.Research limitations/implicationsIt must be noted that this study has some limitations, which suggest avenues for further research. In reviewing the articles, the study used only four databases and only considered papers published between 2009 and 2019. Other studies may include more databases and a longer time frame.Originality/valueRegarding the theories most used in the reviewed articles, TPB and social learning theory (SLT) were most used in relation to entrepreneurship education. This shows that researchers were focusing on the influence of entrepreneurship education in relation to the entrepreneurial intention, behavior and attitude of the individuals.

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Entrepreneurship education and job creation for tourism graduates in Ghana

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Factors Affecting Green Entrepreneurship Intentions in Business University Students in COVID-19 Pandemic Times: Case of Ecuador

Factors Affecting Green Entrepreneurship Intentions in Business University Students in COVID-19 Pandemic Times: Case of Ecuador

Is “entrepreneurship” the problem in entrepreneurship education?

Entrepreneurship education: systematic literature review and future research directions

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