Graduate students’ opinions about entrepreneurship as an employment opportunity

dc.contributor.authorJuračak, Josip
dc.contributor.authorTica, Marko
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T11:15:49Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T11:15:49Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-31
dc.description.abstractOne of the most unwanted and unavoidable consequences of the economic recession is the high rate of unemployment. Graduate students in Croatia are faced with lack of employment possibilities, and for some of them the self-employment looks like a good solution. In this paper, we investigate attitudes and intentions of graduate students at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture regarding to selfemployment. Most of the surveyed students are in the age between 21 and 25 years, and they have already got some kind of knowledge about entrepreneurship during the formal education. In addition, majority of them have the experience of part-time jobs. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) model was used to find out to which extent students’ attitudes and experience influence their expressed self-employment intentions. The results revealed that Zagreb students’ scores are close but somewhat lower than the same scores found in the comparable study from Australia. This goes for the investigated variables: (1) previous entrepreneurial experience (PEE), perceived desirability of selfemployment (PDSE), perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy (PESE) and self-employment intentions (SEI). It was found that the score on the PEE is significantly related to scores on the PDSE (p=0.000), and PESE (p=0.000), which means that the experience positively influence respondents’ attitudes on self-employment and self-efficacy. There is also a statistically significant difference in the on the SEI with respect to the PDSE (ANOVA F=9.804, p=0.000): respondents that consider self-employment more desirable expressed higher intention to perform it. The PDSE was found as the most influencing model variable in regards to the self-employment intention. The results points out the importance of previous experience, role models and positive attitudes towards self-employment in the process of the entrepreneurship development in young, educated population.en
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dc.identifier.citationApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016) , 23-29
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/1/4
dc.identifier.eissn1789-7874
dc.identifier.issn1789-221X
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.jatitleAPSTRACT
dc.identifier.jtitleApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317761en
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/apstract/article/view/6828
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerUniversity of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Hungary
dc.subjectentrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectself-employmenten
dc.subjectstudentsen
dc.subjecttheory of planned behaviouren
dc.titleGraduate students’ opinions about entrepreneurship as an employment opportunityen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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