National culture and higher education as pre-determining factors of student entrepreneurship

Roman, Teodora; Maxim, Alexandru

doi:10.1080/03075079.2015.1074671

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“…Some scholars use entrepreneurship education as a mediating variable to explain this situation [43]. Some scholars believe that entrepreneurship education and other factors, such as self-efficacy [44,45], cultural background [46], entrepreneurship cognition [47], and entrepreneurship role models [3], work together to influence entrepreneurial intentions.…”

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education

Liu

Kulturel-Konak²,

Konak³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This study explores a multi-dimensional model for measuring the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. The proposed model was validated through an empirical study involving 298 college students who have participated in entrepreneurship courses in China. The research results show that the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education can be observed through the improvement of participants' entrepreneurial competencies, the reduction of their entrepreneurial barriers and the change of their entrepreneurial intention. On this basis, this study draws on the approach of the Triangulation widely used in qualitative research and develops a 'Triangle Measurement Model for the Entrepreneurship Education Effectiveness'. The Model provides an effective tool for the development and upgrading of entrepreneurship education courses, as well as a standard framework for cross-cultural or cross-regional comparative studies of entrepreneurship education.

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confidence: 99%

Measuring the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education

Liu

Kulturel-Konak²,

Konak³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Findings from the study of Roman and Maxim (2017) argues a significant positive contribution of entrepreneurial training at the university level among the students in choosing entrepreneurship as a career path.…”

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Exploring the Effects of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intention between Genders: A Pair-Wise Methodology Approach

ADELAJA¹

2020

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Past studies on gender differences in entrepreneurship at higher education levels are predominantly based on survey approaches. Thus creating several mix-evidences with the majority of these studies showing that male intention towards entrepreneurship to be higher than the female counterpart. This research uses a pair-wise experimental approach to examine gender differences in entrepreneurial intention before and after exposure to entrepreneurial education in the six federal universities in south-western Nigeria. The findings indicate that male students demonstrated higher intention before exposure to entrepreneurial education, while female students exhibited the opposite intention. However, after exposure to entrepreneurship education, female students exhibited stronger entrepreneurial intentions compared to their male counterparts. Despite this, no statistical difference was observed between male and female intentions. Yet, when both results were combined to give a composite picture, there was a decrease in the overall entrepreneurial intention for both genders. More so, an in-depth interview with some of the respondents reveals that male students attend an entrepreneurial education course for the sake of it being a compulsory course while female students have the notion that with entrepreneurial education, they have the chance of developing back-up plans if the marriage fails or they are unemployed. This unexpected result indicated the unintended effect entrepreneurial education in south-western Nigeria was having on the gender gap in entrepreneurial intention and its overall outcomes in practical terms. The research concludes that entrepreneurial education curricula in Nigerian universities, especially those in the southwest, need to be reviewed to capture gender sensitivity in entrepreneurial intentions before and after graduation from entrepreneurship programs.

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“…Our starting point is thus that given conflicting findings from previous literature, there are interesting possibilities to discuss whether, how, and why the different broad principles we identify can lead to different possible outcomes from the student perspective. On the one hand, there is some research support for the idea that entrepreneurship education and training might increase the number of successful entrepreneurs (Katz 2007;Kuratko 2005;Lanero et al 2011;Millán et al 2014;Roman and Maxim 2017). This type of empirical research on entrepreneurship education often explains the positive outcome with the aid of a model that assumes there is a connection between entrepreneurship education and a better-educated workforce, which can usually be expected to be more productive.…”

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Strategic choices in the design of entrepreneurship education: an explorative study of Swedish higher education institutions

Zaring

Gifford

McKelvey

2019

Studies in Higher Education

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This article proposes a taxonomy of entrepreneurship education, with the aim of enhancing our understanding of how higher education contributes to society. Entrepreneurship education programs have become a prominent feature in the curricula of many universities and business schools. Often it is developed in parallel with national policy, as described for our empirical context of Sweden. We identify four types using broad principles in terms of four different key variables described within. To identify our proposed types, we perform a cluster analysis of all 37 universities with entrepreneurship educations in one country. Previous literature provides mixed evidence about entrepreneurship programs' effect on the likelihood of alumni starting a business afterwards. Our contribution is to specify this taxonomy through broad principles, leading to interesting questions about the competing goals between theory and practice in learning outcomes. We conclude with suggested directions for future research and implications for higher education policy.

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National culture and higher education as pre-determining factors of student entrepreneurship

Cited by 38 publications

References 30 publications

Measuring the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education

Measuring the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education

Exploring the Effects of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intention between Genders: A Pair-Wise Methodology Approach

Strategic choices in the design of entrepreneurship education: an explorative study of Swedish higher education institutions

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