Naslov
Students’ entrepreneurship attitudes: survey at University of Zagreb

Autori
Dabić, Marina ; Novak, Ivan ; Basić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of Conference - Entrepreneurship without borders / Dabić, M. ; Kariv, D. - Rishon LeZion : The Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb ; The College of Management, Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, Israel, 2009, 6-6

Skup
Entrepreneurship without borders

Mjesto i datum
Rishon LeZion, Izrael, 16.11.2009. - 18.11.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Entrepreneurship; behaviour; teaching; students; Croatia

Sažetak
Our study aims to identify the basic issues underlying entrepreneurial behaviour as a cognitive process in order to identify new educational opportunities for its development. A common feature of entrepreneurial behaviour is interpreted in its riskiness, while its vogue determination makes it difficult to compare motivating factors that influence it. Hence, the goal of this paper is to test the entrepreneurial drive of Croatian university students according to the students’ behaviour based on desirability, feasibility and intentions which follows from the Shapero-Krueger model also employed in Wu and Wu (2008). Deriving from the work of Elenurm et al. (2007), social dimensions encompassed in the institutional framework of university imply the importance of education in enhancing entrepreneurial performance. Analysis has been carried out using SPSS software package on a sample of 695 students of all university years at the University of Zagreb. The model was tested according to several hypotheses with respect to gender and family background differences using cross tabulation, Mann-Whitney Test and Cronbach test. A new business desirability is characterized by the following questions (1)“I would love doing it” ; (2)”My immediate family members would encourage me doing it“ ; (3) “I would be tense” ; (4)“I would be enthusiastic. Feasibility concept was represented with the questions: (1)”hard to start own business, (2)”certainty of success to start an own business”, (3)”overworked in starting my own business” ; (4) “know enough to start my own business” and (5) “sure of yourself”. The question about the intention was given as a multiple choice: „After you have finished your studies at your academic institution (regardless of whether you obtain a degree), what do you intend to do?, while the answers could have been: start my own business, partner with someone to start a business, work for immediate family business, work in a small or new company and work for a large company or corporation. Variable (3) was excluded from the model of desirability and Cronbach's Alpha for the questions (1), (2) and (4) was 0, 670. P-value of Mann Whitney test for gender difference concerning the desirability equals 0, 273 and for family background 0, 013. Model of feasibility contains variables (2), (4) and (5) and Cronbach's Alpha equals 0, 740. P value of Mann Whitney test for gender difference on feasibility equals 0, 029 and for family background 0, 001. As for students with no entrepreneur in the family 14, 2% stated intention of starting their own business and for those who had an entrepreneur in the family there was 21, 6%. For the female students 14, 6 % stated to have the intention of starting their own business while for male students this percentage was 20, 5. Concerning the gender variable on desirability no significant difference between male and female students was found. As for the desirability difference between students with and without entrepreneur in the family there was a statistically significant result. Students with an entrepreneur in the family consider entrepreneurship to be more desirable. Furthermore male students and students who had an entrepreneur in the family consider entrepreneurship to be more feasible in comparison with female students and students with no entrepreneur in the family. Hence, relatively more of male students state the intention of starting a new business as well as those who had an entrepreneur in the family.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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