Webber, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-1488-3436, Kitagawa, F. and Plumridge, A. (2020) Student entrepreneurial propensities in the individual-organisational-environmental nexus. Economic Issues, 25 (1). pp. 31-59. ISSN 1363-7029
Abstract
While there is a consensus that universities contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation, it is not clear how different educational environments contribute to different students’ desires to start up a business, and it is even less clear how different universities contribute to entrepreneurship activities in a particular place. This study improves understanding of entrepreneurship education and the university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem at the individual, organisational and environmental levels by examining organisational contexts and individual students’ social contexts, including motivations towards and perceptions of graduate start-ups. Applications of logit and ordered logit regression analyses to a unique student-level dataset across two universities in one city-region demonstrates the importance of the university, gender and a series of home and employment experiences as determinants of the propensity to start up a business, while economic factors change attitudes towards setting up a business.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Economic Issues. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Economic Issues. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Entrepreneurship education; Business start-up; Entrepreneurial propensity; Student motivations; Local institutional contexts |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2023 13:47 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2023 13:47 |
Published Version: | https://www.economicissues.org.uk/Vol25.html |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Economic Issues Education Trust |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204505 |