Naslov
The Role of Gender on Students’ Entrepreneurial Attitudes: A Cross-Country Comparative Study of Croatia and Poland
(The Role of Gender on Students’ Entrepreneurial Attitudes: A Cross-Country Comparative Study of Croatia and Poland.)

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

Izvornik
The business review, Cambridge (1553-5827) 15 (2010), 1; 97-103

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Students; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Attitudes

Sažetak
The importance of tailoring the educational content from a demand side perspective is increasingly being examined by researchers willing to raise the entrepreneurial activity with the purpose of advancing national development and growth. The use of self-assessment to determine students’ entrepreneurship attitudes represents well accepted practice in field of entrepreneurship research. In order to address this void, this article examines the social dimension of entrepreneurship within the informal institutional setting. This paper aims at finding a causal relationship between gender and entrepreneurial attitudes of university students and making a cross-county comparison among two countries at differing stages of development: Croatia as the EU candidate country and Poland as a new member of the EU. A theoretical foundation was found in the Ajzen’s Theory of planned behavior with a survey conducted and statistically analyzed on 1024 students in 2009. 694 students from University of Zagreb, Croatia (330 males and 364 females) and 330 students from Poznan University of Economics, Poland (102 males and 228 females) participated in the study. The role of educational and public policy necessary to facilitate entrepreneurial motivation as a key driver of a new venture creation is given a detrimental role.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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