Transforming graduates, transforming small firms

Roffe, Ian

doi:10.1108/03090599610128827

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“…Mahlberg (1996) equally noted that colleges and schools have a vital role to play in encouraging entrepreneurship education, since EIs are basically assumed to be the training ground for shaping entrepreneurial skills, aspirations and cultures among students in their pursuit to weather the storm of the robust and ever competitive today's business milieu (Autio, Keeley, Klofsten & Ulfstedt, 1997;Landstrom, 2005). As a provider of entrepreneurship training programmes, EIs are bound to do all their best in creating an enabling environment that could encourage entrepreneurial activities and, incidentally, assist in inculcating an enterprising values among college and university students whom are groomed to be tomorrow's entrepreneurs (Roffe, 1999).…”

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Entrepreneurship Education as a Catalyst of Business Start-Ups: A Study on Malaysian Community College Students

Ooi

Abdullahi²

2015

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This study investigates the effect of entrepreneurship education on the Malaysian community college students' inclination towards entrepreneurship. It is built on the previous study by Ooi (2008) which examined the university students' inclination towards entrepreneurship. A sample consisting of 235 students were drawn from four community colleges located in the Malaysian northern region. The students were in the final year of their diploma studies in various disciplines. A survey questionnaire was employed to elicit responses concerning their entrepreneurship inclination and characteristics. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse respondents' characteristics and Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (SEM-PLS) was employed in determining the relationship among the variables of the study. The results of the study indicated that 51 per cent of the community college students would consider commencing a business as their future vocation, whilst 33 per cent stated that they are probably to start a new business venture after completion of their studies. This could be attributed to the effort taken by the community colleges in promoting entrepreneurship among students. The entrepreneurial factors: role models and the role played by the community colleges in promoting entrepreneurship showed a statistically significant positive influence on community college students' decision to pursue an entrepreneurial career. The Partial Least Square -Multi Group Analysis (PLS-MGA) employed for moderating the personal background variables indicated no significant differences on path coefficients between the various groups across gender and working experience. An exception was the effect of role models on entrepreneurial inclination, which was significantly higher with those participants without working experience. Recommendations and future research direction are delivered in relation to the findings of this study.

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Entrepreneurship Education as a Catalyst of Business Start-Ups: A Study on Malaysian Community College Students

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Abdullahi²

2015

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“…Much of this is focused around Cardiff where both BBC Wales and S4C are located, although strong clusters of Welsh language production and facilities firms have also been established in other areas, such as Caernarfon in Gwynedd. Not surprisingly, the growing number of Welsh language businesses has given rise to support organizations such as Menter a Busnes, which have Entrepreneurship amongst Minority Language Speakers: The Case of Wales 221 been established to encourage greater enterprise amongst Welsh language speakers (ROFFE, 1996) and have proven successful in delivering a range of business services bilingually. WILSON and PORTES (1980) suggest that there are two necessary pre-conditions for enclave enterprises and entrepreneurs to exist, namely a considerable size of the particular ethnic minority group and sufficient capital for enterprises to develop.…”

Section: The Enclave Theory and Welsh Language Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Entrepreneurship amongst Minority Language Speakers: The Case of Wales

2010

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Jones-Evans D., Thompson P. and Kwong C. Entrepreneurship amongst minority language speakers: the case of Wales, Regional Studies. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey, this study explores the entrepreneurial characteristics of Welsh speakers who live both inside and outside Welsh language clusters, focusing on the extent to which they follow those patterns predicted by theories drawn from the ethnic entrepreneurship field. The results indicate that whilst fluent Welsh speakers are more likely than non-Welsh speakers to perceive opportunities for business starts and be involved in business starts in non-Welsh-speaking areas, this can be largely explained by differences in environmental and personal characteristics. [image omitted] Jones-Evans D., Thompson P. et Kwong C. L'esprit d'entreprise parmi ceux qui parlent une langue minoritaire: etude de cas du pays de Galles, Regional Studies. A partir des donnees provenant de l'enquete menee par le Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Moniteur de l'esprit d'entreprise mondiale), cette etude examine les caracteristiques entrepreneuriales de ceux qui parlent gallois et qui habitent a l'interieur et a l'exterieur des regroupements de ceux qui parlent gallois, focalisant le point jusqu'a quel elles suivent les distributions prevues par les theories puisees dans le domaine de l'esprit d'entreprise ethnique. Alors que ceux qui parlent couramment le gallois sont plus susceptibles de noter les possibilites de creer une entreprise dans les zones ou on ne parle pas le gallois que ne le sont ceux qui ne parlent pas le gallois, les resultats indiquent que cela s'explique dans une large mesure par des variations des caracteristiques d'ordre environnemental et personnel. Gallois Commerces ethniques Esprit d'entreprise Jones-Evans D., Thompson P. und Kwong C. Unternehmertum unter Minderheitensprachlern: der Fall von Wales, Regional Studies. Mit Hilfe von Daten der globalen Umfrage uber Unternehmertum (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor bzw. GEM) untersuchen wir in dieser Studie die unternehmerischen Eigenschaften walisischsprachiger Personen, die innerhalb und ausserhalb der walisischen Sprachcluster leben. Hierbei berucksichtigen wir besonders die Frage, in welchem Umfang diese Personen den Mustern folgen, die von den Theorien im Bereich des ethnischen Unternehmertums vorausgesagt werden. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass fliessend walisischsprachige Personen zwar haufiger als nicht walisischsprachige Personen in nicht walisischsprachigen Gebieten Gelegenheiten zur Geschaftsgrundung wahrnehmen und sich an Geschaftsgrundungen beteiligen, doch dass sich dies grosstenteils durch Unterschiede bei den Umwelt- und personlichen Merkmalen erklaren lasst. Walisische Sprache Ethnische Firmen Unternehmertum Jones-Evans D., Thompson P. y Kwong C. El empresariado entre los hablantes de idiomas minoritarios: el caso de Gales, Regional Studies. Usando datos del estudio Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), en este ensayo analizamos las caracteristicas empresariales de lo...

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“…The issue here has been to convince small firm owners of the potential added value represented by a graduate in a climate where employment of such skilled employees is relatively rare among small firms (Roffe, 1996).…”

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Graduates as strategic change agents in small firms: a case study of graduate placements and lifelong learning

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Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are often resistant to the employment opportunities offered by skilled graduates. The Centre for Lifelong Learning at Brunel University ran a two‐year project aimed at encouraging local SMEs to consider unemployed graduates as suitable new employees through short‐term placements. The concept of workplace‐based learning was introduced into firms by the graduates acting as strategic change agents. A valuable learning experience can be gained by both small firms and graduates searching for work experience through the brokerage role of a university. There is a limit to the impact of external factors in generating organizational changes in small firms. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Transforming graduates, transforming small firms

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Entrepreneurship Education as a Catalyst of Business Start-Ups: A Study on Malaysian Community College Students

Entrepreneurship Education as a Catalyst of Business Start-Ups: A Study on Malaysian Community College Students

Entrepreneurship amongst Minority Language Speakers: The Case of Wales

Graduates as strategic change agents in small firms: a case study of graduate placements and lifelong learning

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