The influence of entrepreneurial competencies on entrepreneurial career option among polytechnic students in Nigeria

Entrepreneurship is gradually becoming a parameter of measuring socio-economic developments among nations. Entrepreneurship is helping the growth of economies by creating additional jobs, wealth, and reducing the incidence of abject poverty. Developed countries ascribe their achievements to technological development, scientific break-through, improved communication and information technology, and competitive advantage gained through their entrepreneurial competencies and adventures. The objective of this paper is to examine the significance of entrepreneurial skills and their influence on entrepreneurial career option. Entrepreneurial competencies seek to create awareness among students about entrepreneurship as the appropriate career option to engage after graduation, as well as impart the needed social skills and knowledge of the use of insights and intuitions to identify and exploit opportunities to start a business. A quantitative approach was used involving a total of 505 questionnaires distributed to polytechnic students in Nigeria. A total of 425 questionnaires were completed and returned with a response rate of 84.2 percent. Data were analysed using SmartPLS 3; results indicate a significant positive influence of know-who and know-when competencies on entrepreneurial career option. The study was consistent with earlier studies on the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial career option among students. The findings of the study will be of immense benefit to the government, education regulatory agencies, higher education institutions, and the general public. Further, the study will serve as a framework for future reference and assist in formulating future policies on entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Keywords: Entrepreneurial career option, entrepreneurial competencies; polytechnic

Concept of entrepreneurial success among women entrepreneur in Malaysia

Nowadays, it seems like women`s involvement in entrepreneurship is not as active as they could be since people know little on women entrepreneur compared to men entrepreneur.Many studies are focusing more on men entrepreneur rather than women entrepreneur.Intensive researches on women entrepreneur especially in entrepreneurial success are needed as guidance in helping them to become a successful entrepreneur.Therefore, this research is carried out to identify the factors that might influence women entrepreneur to become successful. Several definitions from previous research will identified to well understand the meaning of entrepreneurial success.Besides, in this paper also, the author will recognize the most suitable dimension to measure the success among women entrepreneurs.Thus, in future it will help to avoid more failure among them since this research has been determine the characteristics and factors needed to be a successful women entrepreneurs

Influence of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy on Relationship among Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Career Option

The study aimed at exploring the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial career option among university students. Smart-PLS (2.0) was used to analysis the data obtained from a sample of 432 students at six federal universities in northern Nigeria. The study found a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial career option, but the study also found a significant negative relationship between entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial career option. Furthermore, the study found that entrepreneurial self-efficacy significantly mediates the relationship among entrepreneurial knowledge, entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial career option. The study provided suggestion for future research. Keywords: Entrepreneurial career option, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial Knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, entrepreneurial self-efficacy

The Role of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition on Relationship among Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Career Option

The study aimed at examining the impact of the mediating role of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial career option among businesses students at Palestinian universities. Smart-PLS (3.0) was used to analysis the data obtained from a sample of 291 students at six universities in Palestine. The study found a significant positive relationship between social capital, entrepreneurial motivations and entrepreneurial career option. Furthermore, the study found that entrepreneurial opportunity recognition significantly mediates the relationship among social capital, entrepreneurial motivations and entrepreneurial career option. The study concluded with recommendations and suggestions for future research. Keywords: Entrepreneurial career option, Entrepreneurship Education, Know-why, Know-who, Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition

A qualitative study of innovativeness, strategies and leadership styles of successful women entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Women entrepreneurs play an important role in the development of a country’s economy.Women today made up more than forty percent of the labor force in Malaysia.Past research on entrepreneurs demonstrated that individuals with innovative behavior, strategies and leadership distinguished them from non entrepreneurs.This research was done to explore entrepreneurial innovative behavior leadership styles and strategies of successful women entrepreneurs in Malaysia.It is a qualitative research which involved interviews with successful women entrepreneurs.Strategies on how they expand their business were also examined.

ICON: Growth challenges

Mr. Amir Ghouri, a young entrepreneur of the Sukkur (Pakistan) successfully started the new venture Known as ICON in retailing after crossing several hurdles erected by regulatory authorities. Mr. Amir inherited the business from his forefathers and tried the diversification after the long stuck up of 30 years.Since his graduation in business studies from the USA, he had come up with two successful ventures in retailing and now considered to be the trend setter in retailing business in the vicinity of Sukkur.In his new venture of ICON he is concerned with the challenges of supply chain and getting sales increased.His ventures are perceived to serve up market; while his new venture of ICON has product ranges for the middle and lower middle class also

Effect of experiential teaching methodology on personality and entrepreneurial intentions: a proposed framework

Personality has been found to be a primary antecedent to gauge entrepreneurial intentions of an individual. A holistic view of personality is better at understanding this relationship, and may be of more benefit to the individual and assessor. Among students of higher education institutions, entrepreneurial intentions are declining. Individuals with higher entrepreneurial intentions respond better to experiential teaching methodology. In this was higher education institutions may be able to increase the entrepreneurial intentions of the students by using experiential teaching methodologies. This study proposes the use of experiential teaching methodology as a moderator to better understand the relationship between; entrepreneurial proactivity, entrepreneurial creativity, entrepreneurial opportunism and entrepreneurial vision with entrepreneurial intentions. This study also elaborates on the use of entrepreneurial event model as the underpinning theory and human capital theory as the supporting theory to build the proposed research framework

Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurial Career Resilience between Entrepreneurial Career Commitment and Entrepreneurial Career Success

It has been argued that career success is the most frequently researched outcome in organizational behavior. However, as most researches relate it to organizational or employee level, career success of the self-employed is often neglected in the literature.The purpose of this paper was to gain a deeper understanding of career success of entrepreneurs and how it was influenced by their career commitment and resilience.It therefore addressed the research question, “does entrepreneurial career commitment (ECC) predicts entrepreneurial career success (ECS) through entrepreneurial career resilience (ECR)?”, The study is cross-sectional and data were collected from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) owners/managers in Nigeria.The study distributed 576 questionnaires to the respondents but 390 (68%) were retrieved and therefore used for analysis.The respondents were selected using two-stage cluster sampling method.To assess the measurement as well as the structural model, the data were analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) statistical software (Smart-PLS version 3.2.4). The findings suggest that ECC influenced the two facets of ECS, i.e. career satisfaction (CS) and perceived career achievement (PCA), but it did not influence the perceived financial attainment (PFA).In addition, there was also substantive support for the effect of ECC on ECR as well as ECC on ECS.More so, ECR has significantly intervened in the relationships. The findings also emphasized the importance of the ECC, ECS and ECR for entrepreneurs.The paper provided a novel understanding on topics (career success, career commitment and career resilience) that are of increasingly critical importance to the present-day entrepreneurs

Women micro-entrepreneurs and economic development in Nigeria: characteristics for success

The objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics that are considered essential for the success of entrepreneurial activity in an economy; and whether Nigerian women entrepreneurs have adequate possession of these characteristics. The success of entrepreneurs is a boost to an economy and their business development is considered a vital link in fostering economic growth of such a nation.This is made possible through their positive impact on rural economic development. Entrepreneurships are very essential to a nation’s economic development as they help in creating wealth, create employment for themselves and others and reduce poverty. In other to perform their vital role in economic development of their households, communities and countries, they need to possess certain characteristics. It has been observed that the survival rate of many micro-enterprises in Nigeria is low, and that some entrepreneurs’ access credits from micro-finance banks only to be used to settle other non-business issues. On this premise, this study seeks to examine whether Nigerian women entrepreneurs possess the necessary characteristics, and the effect of such features on entrepreneurial success.Of the 410 questionnaires distributed, 363 were correctly filled and used for the descriptive statistical analysis. The study revealed that majority of women in micro-enterprises had secondary/high school education, had a mean age of 30 years, mean number of children as 3, mean years of business experience as 3 years, married, had training before business and were group members.Motivation, foresight, networking and achievement were also crucial element for sustainable productive and successful venture.It was also discovered that the majority of the entrepreneurs were not under paid employment before starting micro-enterprises. This showed that they were new entrants into business which may be occasioned by unemployment situation in the country.It also portrayed lack of skill acquisition which called for pre-loan training. The results of the study concluded that women entrepreneurs in Nigeria possess the necessary characteristics for entrepreneurial success

Exploring entrepreneural learning among Malaysian universities students'

Entrepreneurs learn through experience and have high degree of willingness to learn in order to acquire certain knowledge and skill that benefit themselves as well as their business ventures. This style of entrepreneurial learning should be adopted by students as part of the process in inculcating entrepreneurship readiness.This research was attempted to develop items for measuring entrepreneurial learning readiness using sequential mixed-method approach. The first phase of this study explored the dimension of entrepreneurs learning readiness among small business owners in Malaysia using multi-case study approach. Second phase of the study was attempted to explore entrepreneurial learning readiness among the students at public higher learning institution in Malaysia using self developed instrument by researcher. There were 15 items using five Likert scale for measuring entrepreneurial learning readiness which consist of two dimension namely learning initiative and willingness to learn. The survey data was gathered from 912 students from four public higher learning institutions in peninsular of Malaysia. The overal finding exhibit the respondents had high learning readiness including learning initiative, entrepreneurial learning techniques and eagerness to learn. The result showed that most students have high willingness to learn that will help them in upgrading themselves in order to success in their future career. It was suggested that future research to include other dimension of entrepreneurial learning readiness and develop certain method to assist student in acquiring the entrepreneurial learning skills