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2010

Entrepreneurship

Sacred Heart University

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Entrepreneurial Inclination Of Students At A Private University In Malaysia, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Kamal Kishore Jain, Mohar Yusof Jan 2010

Entrepreneurial Inclination Of Students At A Private University In Malaysia, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Kamal Kishore Jain, Mohar Yusof

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

Most past studies on students’ entrepreneurial intention tend to focus on the phenomenon in developed countries.There is limited research on entrepreneurial intention of university students from developing nations. This article intends to close this gap by providing some insights into students’ entrepreneurial inclination in a developing country, Malaysia. A total of 234 students from three faculties at both graduate and undergraduate levels were surveyed to examine their entrepreneurial inclination and also to examine the relationship between their demographic and social characteristics with entrepreneurial inclination.The study found strong entrepreneurial inclination among the students. Significant difference was found between students studying part …


Exploring The Impact Of Education On Korean-American Entrepreneurs, Myung-Soo Lee, Alvin N. Puryear, Edward Rogoff, Joseph I. Onochie, George W. Haynes, Ramona K. Zachary Jan 2010

Exploring The Impact Of Education On Korean-American Entrepreneurs, Myung-Soo Lee, Alvin N. Puryear, Edward Rogoff, Joseph I. Onochie, George W. Haynes, Ramona K. Zachary

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

Education has been shown to have myriad effects on people, from increasing their incomes to changing their views of the world. In the area of entrepreneurship, education creates opportunities and increases the rate of entrepreneurial activity. This study explores education’s effects on the immigrant entrepreneurship development processes and outcomes in the context of Korean-Americans by comparing a national sample of Korean-Americans with differing amounts of education. The sample is part of the National Minority Business Owners Surveys (NMBOS) carried out by the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College between 2003 and 2005. The authors hypothesize that high-education …