Jerry Schoenfeld

TL;DR: In an exploratory study, the ability of tolerance for risk, perceived feasibility, and perceived net desirability to predict intentions for self-employment was examined in a sample of 114 undergraduate business students at Florida Gulf Coast University.

TL;DR: This paper explored the ability of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to predict goals for self-employment in a sample of 115 undergraduate business students and found that students with higher entrepreneurial self-efficacy and higher self employment outcome expectations had higher intentions to become self-employed.

TL;DR: In this article, a primary goal for professors in academia is to facilitate the career success of their students by providing them with the necessary subject knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey entrepreneurship educators to determine their perceptions of which classroom related activities best enhance student's entrepreneurial self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and provide pedagogical recommendations that entrepreneurship educators may use to boost students' interests and goals for entrepreneurial careers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used entrepreneurial self-efficacy and goal setting as predictor variables to augment existing explanations of small firm performance and found that entrepreneurs with high selfefficacy are more likely to set higher goals that resulted in better firm performance.