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Graduate entrepreneurship: intentions, education and training
Ghulam Nabi,Rick Holden +1 more
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In this paper, the authors present an introduction to the special issue of Graduate Entrepreneurship, which positions and explores some of issues and challenges in the field of graduate entrepreneurship, and introduces papers of six authors/author teams.Abstract:
Purpose – The paper's purpose is to present an introduction to the special issue is that positions and explores some of issues and challenges in the field of graduate entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines a range of issues and themes and introduces papers of six authors/author teams. The introductory paper is divided into three sections: what is graduate entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial intentions; and education and training.Findings – The paper finds that, despite increasing attention on graduate entrepreneurship, there remains a lack of research on entrepreneurial intentions and enterprise/entrepreneurship education and training in varied and multiple contexts. This special issue includes research from a number of countries, including England, Ireland, Australia and the USA.Originality/value – The paper provides the basis for a more nuanced understanding of entrepreneurial intentions and related education and training – of interest to both researchers and policy makers in te...read more
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A systematic literature review on entrepreneurial intentions: citation, thematic analyses, and research agenda
Francisco Liñán,Alain Fayolle +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on entrepreneurial intention is carried out, which offers a clearer picture of the sub-fields in entrepreneurial intention research, by concentrating on two aspects: citation analysis and thematic analysis.
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A systematic literature review on entrepreneurial intentions: citation, thematic analyses, and research agenda
Francisco Liñán,Alain Fayolle +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on entrepreneurial intention is carried out, which offers a clearer picture of the sub-fields in entrepreneurial intention research, by concentrating on two aspects: citation analysis and thematic analysis.
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The effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the development of entrepreneurship education in Malaysia and evaluate its effectiveness and limitations, and reveal students' perceptions of the effectiveness of the entrepreneurship teaching and their knowledge about entrepreneurship.
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Graduate entrepreneurship in the developing world: intentions, education and development
Ghulam Nabi,Francisco Liñán +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches considered by the different authors, highlighting a range of issues and challenges in their contributions, and suggest that there is a lack of research in the field of graduate entrepreneurship in the developing world, and that further research in developing countries may help to understand and shed light on the issues evolving around graduate entrepreneurial intentions, business start-up and education.
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Entrepreneurial intentions among students: towards a re‐focused research agenda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present data from the 2007/2008 Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI) survey within the Yorkshire and Humberside region and reflect back over previous iterations of this research.
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour
Mark Conner,Brian McMillan +1 more
TL;DR: The theory of Planned Behaviour is one of the models most frequently used in the literature to explore pro-environmental behaviour including recycling, travel mode choice, energy consumption, water conservation, food choice, and ethical investment.
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Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two intention-based models in terms of their ability to predict entrepreneurial intentions: Ajzen's theory of planned behavior (TPB) and Shapero's model of the entrepreneurial event (SEE).
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The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship
Albert Shapero,Lisa Sokol +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a paradigm to include all versions of the entrepreneurial event and all variables (situational, social, and individual) identified with the event, which can answer two basic questions: what brought about the life-changing event? and why this particular event? Negative information, events, or displacements often lead to entrepreneurial events.
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The Impact of Prior Entrepreneurial Exposure on Perceptions of New Venture Feasibility and Desirability
TL;DR: In this article, Shapero's intentions-based model of new venture initiation was tested on 126 upper-division university business students and found that perception measures and propensity to act have a significant correlation with entrepreneurial intentions.