The alchemy of student entrepreneurs: towards a model of entrepreneurial maturity

Student Entrepreneurs on University Campus in South Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Entrepreneurial Intention

“…Marchand and Sood (2014) remark that student entrepreneurs are not students merely attending entrepreneurial classes but conduct either a business on/near campus or lead a campus enterprise. According to the Vermont Agency for Education (2014) Zimmerman and Chu (2013) express that one recurring area of interest in the study of entrepreneurship is what motivates individuals to become entrepreneurs.…”

Disability Studies

“…Social mobility largely influences the marginality on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial inclination of student as actual entrepreneur rather than students and conduct either a business or build-up entrepreneurial intention helps to develop cognitive skills and the unconscious drives (Julien Marchand & Suresh Sood, 2014). The difference between the student entrepreneurs and archetypal entrepreneur is the elicitation capacity of student entrepreneurs.…”

Just a Lemonade Stand An Introduction to Student Entrepreneurship

“…Obviously, our definition of student entrepreneurship is predicated on the belief that defining "entrepreneurship" is logically linked with defining "entrepreneur" in that entrepreneurship is what entrepreneurs do when they are being entrepreneurs (Peredo & McLean, 2006). Our definition is also consistent with that of Marchand and Sood (2014). Through interviews these authors explored the cognitive skills and the unconscious drives of student entrepreneurs during pre-and post-university stages.…”

“…Further, scholars have relied on the intention and behavior model (Ajzen, 1991) to explore the psychological and situation cues underlying student entrepreneurship. Our study is timely because, on the one hand, student entrepreneurship is on rise and is garnering much attention in the media and college classrooms in United States and across the world; and on the other hand, scholars have expressed frustration on the confusion that exists related to student entrepreneurs (Marchand & Sood, 2014). We hope that borrowing the typology from the alternative paradigm-Austrian economics will reap the same benefit of providing new insights, as it has in the entrepreneurship research-the typology presented in this article will allow educators, researchers, and policymakers…”