Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective

This paper introduces a conceptual model with perceived opportunity and perceived capability as mediators in the process by which entrepreneurship education helps improve the established business activities. Specifically, we hypothesize that the prevalence of entrepreneurship education relates posit...

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Main Authors: He, Liangxing, Zheng, Leven J, Sharma, Piyush, Leung, Tak Yan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93910
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author He, Liangxing
Zheng, Leven J
Sharma, Piyush
Leung, Tak Yan
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Zheng, Leven J
Sharma, Piyush
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description This paper introduces a conceptual model with perceived opportunity and perceived capability as mediators in the process by which entrepreneurship education helps improve the established business activities. Specifically, we hypothesize that the prevalence of entrepreneurship education relates positively with the rate of established business activity, and that perceived opportunity and capability mediate this relationship. We find support for all our hypotheses using Poisson regression with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data collected from 826 participants across 107 countries during the 2001–2018 period. Our findings confirm that entrepreneurship education has a significant positive impact on the performance of established businesses by helping the entrepreneurs improve their perceived capabilities and opportunities. These findings extend the current research on the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial activities at different stages of development for entrepreneurial businesses.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-939102024-01-18T01:26:19Z Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective He, Liangxing Zheng, Leven J Sharma, Piyush Leung, Tak Yan This paper introduces a conceptual model with perceived opportunity and perceived capability as mediators in the process by which entrepreneurship education helps improve the established business activities. Specifically, we hypothesize that the prevalence of entrepreneurship education relates positively with the rate of established business activity, and that perceived opportunity and capability mediate this relationship. We find support for all our hypotheses using Poisson regression with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data collected from 826 participants across 107 countries during the 2001–2018 period. Our findings confirm that entrepreneurship education has a significant positive impact on the performance of established businesses by helping the entrepreneurs improve their perceived capabilities and opportunities. These findings extend the current research on the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial activities at different stages of development for entrepreneurial businesses. 2023 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93910 10.1016/j.ijme.2023.100922 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Elsevier fulltext
spellingShingle He, Liangxing
Zheng, Leven J
Sharma, Piyush
Leung, Tak Yan
Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title_full Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title_fullStr Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title_short Entrepreneurship education and established business activities: An international perspective
title_sort entrepreneurship education and established business activities: an international perspective
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93910