Factors influencing career choice of tertiary students in Ghana

Owusu, Godfred Matthew Yaw; Essel-Anderson, Anthony; Kwakye, Teddy Ossei; Bekoe, Rita Amoah; Ofori, Charles Gyamfi

doi:10.1108/et-04-2017-0050

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“…This finding is in line with some prior studies conducted by Looi et al (2015); Denanyoh et al (2015), which remarked that family involvement is a factor that can influence a person's entrepreneurial interest. Family circumstances can affect a person's career, including their children's opportunity to be an entrepreneur in the future (Owusu et al, 2018). This study also confirmed that parents who have their businesses tend to have a great intention of being entrepreneurs for their children.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Family economic education, peer groups and students’ entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of economic literacy

Suratno

Narmaditya

Wibowo

2021

Heliyon

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Stimulating potential entrepreneurs is a global challenge and policymakers need to understand factors affecting students' entrepreneurial intention. The growing body of literature has focused on the impact of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention, while this study aims to explore other predicted factors affecting students' entrepreneurial intention, such as family economic education, peer groups, and economic literacy. This study adopted a quantitative method using a survey approach to obtain comprehensive findings. The research involved online questionnaires to approximately 1000 students undergoing convenience sampling in a university in Indonesia as participants. The results indicated that both family economic education and peer groups positively correlate with economic literacy and students' entrepreneurial intention. These results confirmed a crucial role of economic literacy that government and educational institutions can consider to stimulate students' entrepreneurial intention. This study also contributes to the educational sector and governments to facilitate the creation of student-working groups in entrepreneurship as an attempt to encourage students' engagement.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Family economic education, peer groups and students’ entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of economic literacy

Suratno

Narmaditya

Wibowo

2021

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“…Subjective norms are based on normative beliefs. Meanwhile, normative beliefs are one's belief to behave which is influenced by the hope of important people surrounding (Owusu et al , 2018). The people who are considered important are family and close friend who is capable to influence individual behaviour.…”

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Learning environment, students' attitude and intention to enhance current knowledge in the context of choosing accounting career

Hatane

Setiono

Setiawan

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PurposeThis research examines the influence of the learning environment and students' attitudes towards choosing an accounting career mediated by intention to enhance the current knowledge.Design/methodology/approachThe online survey is adopted to test the research model of this research. There are 503 useable responses collected with the effective response rate of 72 per cent. Data analysis and hypothesis testing use Partial Least Square as part of the Structural Equation Modelling technique.FindingsThe results of this research indicate that accounting students possess positive attitude both towards the intention to enhance the current knowledge and choosing their accounting career. The learning environment includes educators and friends who give significant influence on students' intention. Besides, current knowledge enhancement is also discovered to be able to mediate the link between attitude, learning environment and intention to choose accounting career.Research limitations/implicationsDifferent generations may generate either different perception or different orientation in choosing accounting career. Therefore, future research can consider wider coverage and more updated object.Practical implicationsFindings of this research suggest that periodic improvement and renewal are necessary to administer to create an optimum learning environment, in term of teachers' capacity, teaching materials and supporting social environment.Originality/valueThis research contributes to any research related to attitudes towards choosing an accounting career. This study is the leading study that combines students' attitudes, learning environment, current knowledge enhancement, and career choice in one single model.

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“…On the other hand, Owusu et al (2018) determined that professionals or practitioners generally had the most significant effect. Sugahara and Boland (2006) and Suryani et al (2018) identified teachers or educators to be the most influential.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Each individual has a different attitude depending on the influence that forms their behaviors. Based on TPB, the attitude towards a behavior can form an individual's attitude (Owusu, Essel-Anderson, Ossei Kwakye, Bekoe, & Ofori, 2018). The positive belief and attitude fuel the intent to grow current knowledge.…”

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The Intervening Effect of Current Knowledge Enhancement on Attitude and Intention to Choose Accounting Career

Hatane

Setiono

2019

Binus Business Review

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The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of attitude in accounting students to the intention to choose an accounting career. It was through the intention to increase current knowledge as an intervening variable. This research used a survey online method to test the research model, which was responded by a total of 503 accounting students across Java. Data analysis and hypothesis testing used partial least square as part of the structural equation model technique. According to their ages, the respondents were famous as the millennial generation in this era. The results of this research are in accordance with the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). It is proven that attitudes have a positive and significant influence on the intentions of accounting students in terms of increasing current knowledge and choosing accounting careers. This research also supports the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). There is evidence that educational background and learning experience can increase the intention of accounting students to pursue careers in accounting. The existence of different generations leads to different perceptions of students regarding accounting careers. Therefore, further research is needed to identify these differences. The results also suggest that accounting educators need to update their curriculum by adapting the current development and demands of graduates. Last, the rapid development of technology has had a significant influence on the accounting profession.

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Factors influencing career choice of tertiary students in Ghana

Cited by 20 publications

References 30 publications

Family economic education, peer groups and students’ entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of economic literacy

Family economic education, peer groups and students’ entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of economic literacy

Learning environment, students' attitude and intention to enhance current knowledge in the context of choosing accounting career

The Intervening Effect of Current Knowledge Enhancement on Attitude and Intention to Choose Accounting Career

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