Fostering Entrepreneurship at the University: A Spanish Empirical Study
<p>This study aims to suggest best practices for improving the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs in the European area, based on their impact on expected attitudes of undergraduate students towards business startup as a career choice. Particularly, the paper presents some res...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2011-02-01
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| author | José Luis VÁZQUEZ Ana LANERO Pablo GUTIÉRREZ María Purificación GARCÍA |
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| description | <p>This study aims to suggest best practices for improving the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs in the European area, based on their impact on expected attitudes of undergraduate students towards business startup as a career choice. Particularly, the paper presents some results from a study carried out in two Spanish universities aimed at validating a structure of entrepreneurship education based on a double component of curricular teaching and extracurricular support, and to analyze their effect upon undergraduates’ entrepreneurial selfefficacy and outcome expectations as immediate antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors. Sample was comprised of 800 university students, and statistical treatment of data was based on factorial and regression analyses. Findings underline the very limited involvement of Spanish universities in entrepreneurship education as perceived by students, together with the existence of different effects of curricular and extracurricular elements when fostering entrepreneurial careers among future graduates. Implications of these results and limitations of the study are discussed.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a0f1f4f2b3f410ab2c8a9dcb110fccf2024-03-14T07:28:34ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452011-02-01732252276294Fostering Entrepreneurship at the University: A Spanish Empirical StudyJosé Luis VÁZQUEZ0Ana LANERO1Pablo GUTIÉRREZ2María Purificación GARCÍA3Professor, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of León, León, SpainResearch Fellow, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of León, León, SpainAssistant Professor, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of León, León, SpainAssistant Professor, Faculty of Labor Sciences, University of León, León, Spain<p>This study aims to suggest best practices for improving the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs in the European area, based on their impact on expected attitudes of undergraduate students towards business startup as a career choice. Particularly, the paper presents some results from a study carried out in two Spanish universities aimed at validating a structure of entrepreneurship education based on a double component of curricular teaching and extracurricular support, and to analyze their effect upon undergraduates’ entrepreneurial selfefficacy and outcome expectations as immediate antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors. Sample was comprised of 800 university students, and statistical treatment of data was based on factorial and regression analyses. Findings underline the very limited involvement of Spanish universities in entrepreneurship education as perceived by students, together with the existence of different effects of curricular and extracurricular elements when fostering entrepreneurial careers among future graduates. Implications of these results and limitations of the study are discussed.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/278 |
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| title_full | Fostering Entrepreneurship at the University: A Spanish Empirical Study |
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| title_short | Fostering Entrepreneurship at the University: A Spanish Empirical Study |
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