Assessing Antecedents and Consequences of Entrepreneurial Activities of Academics at South African Universities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing Antecedents and Consequences of Entrepreneurial Activities of Academics at South African Universities write by Magdalena Meusburger. This book was released on 2015. Assessing Antecedents and Consequences of Entrepreneurial Activities of Academics at South African Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The effect of practical entrepreneurship education in South Africa. Student entrepreneurship promotion through Enactus Entrepreneurial Projects
The effect of practical entrepreneurship education in South Africa. Student entrepreneurship promotion through Enactus Entrepreneurial Projects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The effect of practical entrepreneurship education in South Africa. Student entrepreneurship promotion through Enactus Entrepreneurial Projects write by Ndivhuho Tshikovhi. This book was released on 2020-04-23. The effect of practical entrepreneurship education in South Africa. Student entrepreneurship promotion through Enactus Entrepreneurial Projects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Review of Business Studies, grade: 79%, Tshwane University of Technology, language: English, abstract: This study investigates the effect of practical entrepreneurship education through Enactus entrepreneurial projects. Despite government initiatives such as the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) and Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) aimed at improving entrepreneurship in South Africa (SA), two phenomena are characteristic: (1) the country is among the least entrepreneurial nations; (2) Unemployed graduates’ lack of interest in entrepreneurship exacerbates high unemployment rates. Consequently, universities are incorporating practical entrepreneurship education into their curricula. Enactus South Africa, as a typical example of university intervention into the problem, was studied with regard to its effect on student’s entrepreneurship intentions. The thinking is that, without access to jobs, entrepreneurship invariably becomes the alternative. Research into this phenomenon is still limited, and existing literature provides equivocal results. The study took the form of quantitative research, to enable the researcher to collect data which would answer best the research question in hand. The findings of the study suggest that there is a positive relationship between Enactus entrepreneurial projects and students‟ entrepreneurship intentions. The research design was supportive in constructing the entire framework of the study. The study was descriptive in nature as essentially it aimed to determine the effect of the phenomena on Enactus students. The population drawn on was Enactus SA, but the sample was taken from the Enactus National Competition 2013, which meant that only students who were representative per Higher Education Institution were sampled. It cannot therefore be assumed that the findings are generalizable to all Enactus SA students.
International Entrepreneurship Education
International Entrepreneurship Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Entrepreneurship Education write by Alain Fayolle. This book was released on 2006-01-01. International Entrepreneurship Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The importance of this volume is that it addresses the major pedagogical issues that inevitably arise in the context of entrepreneurship education. It represents a valuable source for those involved in the training and development of entrepreneurial skills and initiative. Economic Outlook and Business Review Can entrepreneurship be taught? Is it an art or a science? How is entrepreneurship learned? Another masterpiece by the European masters Fayolle and Klandt, this volume based on the 2003 Grenoble Conference will be useful for years to come, among educators and policymakers alike, especially those open to the emerging paradigm. Léo-Paul Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand This book discusses paradigmatic changes in the field of entrepreneurship education in response to economic, political and social needs, and the consequential need to reassess, redevelop and renew curricula and methods used in teaching entrepreneurship. Traditional and new questions and concerns are addressed, including: the development of business schools towards entrepreneurship education best-practice methods of learning and teaching entrepreneurship both inside and outside the classroom the design of effective teaching frameworks and tools the development of entrepreneurial behaviours and attitudes in students teaching the design and launch of new businesses. The issue of assessing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education is also raised. A theoretical and methodological framework is used to measure the impact and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programmes on the attitudes and behaviours of students. Now more than ever, the book argues, research in the field of entrepreneurship education has to be encouraged and facilitated, and should drive the activity of entrepreneurship education providers. As such, this fascinating book aims to provide researchers, practitioners, teachers and advanced students engaged in the field of entrepreneurship with relevant and up-to-date insights into international research programmes in entrepreneurship education.
The Impact of Technological Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education on the Entreprenuership Intentions of Students at Particular Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa
The Impact of Technological Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education on the Entreprenuership Intentions of Students at Particular Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of Technological Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education on the Entreprenuership Intentions of Students at Particular Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa write by Takawira Munyaradzi Ndofirepi. This book was released on 2016. The Impact of Technological Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education on the Entreprenuership Intentions of Students at Particular Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores the collective influence of technological creativity (TC) and exposure to entrepreneurship education (EE) on the entrepreneurship intentions (EI) of students at particular tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Drawing on a positivist epistemology, a quantitative case study and total percentage analysis of tertiary education students who were randomly selected from the entrepreneurial programmes at the Central University of Technology, Free State (South Africa) and Kwekwe Polytechnic College (Zimbabwe), the study examines the extent to which these students intended to engage in entrepreneurship careers in the near future. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents. Out of a total of 400 questionnaires which were distributed to students enrolled for entrepreneurship courses at the two campuses, 284 were completed and returned, representing an overall response rate of 71%. A non-parametric test, the Mann-Whitney U test, was employed to establish whether there are any significant differences in the level of entrepreneurship intentions between South African and Zimbabwean tertiary education students. Another non-parametric technique, the Spearman Correlation, was employed to assess the relationships between technological creativity and entrepreneurship education on the one hand, and the direct determinants of entrepreneurship intentions and actual entrepreneurship intentions, on the other. The same technique was also used to assess the relationships between the immediate determinants of entrepreneurship intention and actual entrepreneurship intentions. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to test a number of predictive effects. Firstly, it was used to test the predictive effect of entrepreneurship education and technological creativity on the immediate determinants of entrepreneurship intentions. Secondly, it was used to assess the predictive effects of the immediate precursors of entrepreneurship intentions on the actual entrepreneurship intentions. Lastly, it tested the direct effects of entrepreneurship education and technological creativity on actual entrepreneurship intentions. The results demonstrate that although a majority of the Zimbabwean and South African respondents intended to engage in entrepreneurship in the near future, there were no significant differences in the levels of entrepreneurship intentions amongst both groups. Although some minimum variations were notable across the two groups, some positive and significant correlations between entrepreneurship education and technological creativity, on one hand, and the direct determinants of entrepreneurship intentions and actual entrepreneurship intentions, on the other, were revealed for both groups of students. The findings also provided strong support to the view that entrepreneurship education and technological creativity jointly predict the antecedents of entrepreneurship intention but have a non-significant direct relationship with actual entrepreneurship intentions. Lastly, all the immediate determinants of entrepreneurship intentions, except for subjective norms, significantly predict entrepreneurship intentions of South African and Zimbabwean tertiary students. To a large extent, the results validated the Theory of Planned Behaviour as a guiding tool for estimating any premeditated entrepreneurial behaviour. Thus, the Theory remains an invaluable theoretical lens for academics, educators and policy-makers’ evaluation of effective ways of enhancing the grooming of potential entrepreneurs. The theoretical contribution of this study lies in its introduction of a novel, previously untested construct, technological creativity, to the Theory of Planned Behaviour, to unravel the complexity of entrepreneurial intentions among tertiary students in a comparative country-based study. Based on the significant joint effects of entrepreneurship education and technological creativity on the direct determinants of entrepreneurship intentions, the study recommends the infusion of technological creativity into entrepreneurship education courses at tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors
Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors write by Bostjan Antoncic. This book was released on 2023-06-07. Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
