Management
Emmanuel Brobbey; Michael Owusu Appiah; Tracy Oppong Mensah; Emmanuel Asafo Adjei
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In emerging nations like Ghana, unemployment has grown to be a serious worry for graduates. According to this perspective, the majority of graduates are recommended to start their own businesses rather than wait for positions from the government. This paper aims to examine the entrepreneurial intentions ...
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In emerging nations like Ghana, unemployment has grown to be a serious worry for graduates. According to this perspective, the majority of graduates are recommended to start their own businesses rather than wait for positions from the government. This paper aims to examine the entrepreneurial intentions among University students, using variables such as Motivation, Family Background, Entrepreneurship Education and External Factors. This is a cross-sectional study where the results were based on the outcomes of a survey among the University of Cape Coast, school of Business students (n=130). Inferential statistical procedures such as the Pearson Product-Moment correlation test, Multiple Regression and Stepwise Regression Analysis were used to assess the study's specific aims and tested the four main hypotheses. The results indicated that all variables but Family Background positively influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions and that Motivation is statistically significant in analyzing the factors that significantly affect the students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Hence, more emphasis should be based on motivating the students both within and outside to enable them develop entrepreneurial mindsets. The study suggests that policymakers should focus on encouraging student entrepreneurship as it will be a proper management to deal with the severe unemployment issue in emerging countries, especially Ghana.
Didip Diandra; Ahmad Azmy
Volume 7, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 301-306
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Entrepreneurship is a natural phenomenon in business. It is part of business life. It shows that business is healthy when there are entrepreneurial skills and managements are adopted for changing and learning. Thus, it will be beneficial for any business organization to understand the definition of entrepreneurship, ...
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Entrepreneurship is a natural phenomenon in business. It is part of business life. It shows that business is healthy when there are entrepreneurial skills and managements are adopted for changing and learning. Thus, it will be beneficial for any business organization to understand the definition of entrepreneurship, sources and types of entrepreneurship, and be able to manage entrepreneurship. This is qualitative research based on literature review to define entrepreneurship, define the sources and types of entrepreneurship, and to provide practical guidelines on how to manage entrepreneurship. It is found that several definition of entrepreneurship based on sources and types of entrepreneurship such as entrepreneurial skills, innovations, and managements. Previous researches classified entrepreneurship into different terms such as technology, and process of entrepreneurship. Some practical guidelines were also provided, but entrepreneurial skill is a major point.
Lucy Boahemaah; Li Xin; Courage Simon Kofi Dogbe; Wisdom Wise Kwabla Pomegbe
Volume 7, Issue 4 , April 2020, , Pages 180-212
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The current research aims to discover the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate students. This is achieved through individual factors (attitude towards behavior, entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial resource and perceived behavioral control) and entrepreneurship ...
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The current research aims to discover the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate students. This is achieved through individual factors (attitude towards behavior, entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial resource and perceived behavioral control) and entrepreneurship education. A quantitative survey design was used to collect information from a study sample of 255 undergraduate agriculture science students from the College of Agriculture Education, Mampong - University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Results indicated that individual factors and entrepreneurship education have a direct positive influence on entrepreneurial intentions. Also, entrepreneurship education moderates the influence of individual factors on entrepreneurial intentions among undergraduate students. In conclusion, using agriculture science students, entrepreneurship education plays a major role in equipping and enhancing students with entrepreneurial knowledge and developing entrepreneurial interest among undergraduate students. The practical implications and future scope are discussed as well.
Mohsen Mohammadi Khyareh; Nasrin Rostami
Volume 5, Issue 10 , October 2018, , Pages 813-828
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Entrepreneurship is the foundation of competition and innovation among firms, as well as on the national economy. In order to create a favorable environment for entrepreneurship strengthening, it must use symmetric and appropriate competitive conditions with entrepreneurship, to improve production and ...
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Entrepreneurship is the foundation of competition and innovation among firms, as well as on the national economy. In order to create a favorable environment for entrepreneurship strengthening, it must use symmetric and appropriate competitive conditions with entrepreneurship, to improve production and employment, and thereby increase economic growth. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of competitiveness and entrepreneurship, which ultimately lead to economic growth. In this paper, through collecting library resources and with a descriptive approach, the interrelations between different components of competitiveness and entrepreneurship, as well as their effects on economic growth, are discussed.
Amal AlMukhlal; Zainab AlJabr; Hawra’a AlKhotam; Alanoud AlOraik; Amir Khwaja
Volume 4, Issue 11 , November 2017, , Pages 1085-1105
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Entrepreneurship is one of the growing areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the country is becoming the leader in the Middle East for reforming Entrepreneurship and the ease of doing business. Nowadays, there are several creative ideas by individuals and many of these ideas do not become a reality ...
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Entrepreneurship is one of the growing areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the country is becoming the leader in the Middle East for reforming Entrepreneurship and the ease of doing business. Nowadays, there are several creative ideas by individuals and many of these ideas do not become a reality due to difficulties in getting outside capital. However, recently, investors are following crowdfunding approach in order to fund start-ups and small creative products. In this paper, an entrepreneur matchmaking tool is presented that is expected to solve some of the problems that exist for both creators of innovative technical ideas and investors to help bringing creative ideas to life. The main purpose of developing this tool is to provide a common platform that will be acting as a middleware between creative people and investing parties in the Middle East. The system includes features like facilitating negotiation between parties, protecting of funding and ideas, creating and managing contracts between the parties, and controlling and tracking communication between the involved parties, among others. The Web-based tool gives the chance for interesting idea creators in the Middle East region to achieve their dreams with the support from investors who seek creative products in order to lead the market and be at the top of their competitors. In addition, the Web-based tool has high potential in providing entrepreneurship opportunities for women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who can work from home in a Saudi Arabia work environment which has limited opportunities for women.
Fariba Bagherinia; Hassan Bagherinia; Seyed Rahim Mosavi
Volume 2, Issue 8 , August 2015, , Pages 846-857
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Unemployment of university graduates is one of the critical problems of the society. The unemployed university graduate does not have the opportunity to use what they have learned and have no way to enter thework market. This indicates necessity of more coordination between higher education system and ...
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Unemployment of university graduates is one of the critical problems of the society. The unemployed university graduate does not have the opportunity to use what they have learned and have no way to enter thework market. This indicates necessity of more coordination between higher education system and the industry and between the graduate’s capabilities and the industries’ need for work force. Through this, the limited resources available to higher education system is utilized in a more optimal manner. The present study is an attempt to assess the student’s attitude toward entrepreneurship in light of higher education curriculum. To this end, Esfarayen University of technology was studied as case study. Data gathering tool was attitude toward entrepreneurship questionnaire. As revealed by the results, the students tended to have neutral attitude toward business and there was no significant difference between students of different fields in this regard. However, boys and girls had significant difference as to their attitude toward business. With these results, the targets of the 20 years outlook to support entrepreneurship in higher education are not going to be met. To make the higher education curriculum more responsive to variety of challenges and needs it is notable that entrepreneurship training and empowerment through the curriculum must be taken as a new necessity by curriculum planners of Iran’s higher education system.
Mahsa Navidbakhsh; Ahmad Nategh Golestan
Volume 2, Issue 3 , March 2015, , Pages 210-218
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This research studies the effect of entrepreneurial characteristics on life insurance development. This is an applied, descriptive survey. Field data were gathered through a questionnaire for which its validity and reliability were verified. The participants included 860 individuals according to Cochran’s ...
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This research studies the effect of entrepreneurial characteristics on life insurance development. This is an applied, descriptive survey. Field data were gathered through a questionnaire for which its validity and reliability were verified. The participants included 860 individuals according to Cochran’s formula. Research hypotheses were analyzed through using Structural Equation Modeling and AMOS software. Results showed that entrepreneurial characteristics influence life insurance development of Iran insurance company’s agents in Neyshabur, Iran.