An entrepreneurship course for academic students is expected to be a vital stimulus to promote entrepreneurship and the … setup of creative new businesses. But do the students learn the right things? A comparison is made between the more classic …

cognitive styles in understanding students’ career preferences by two complementary studies. In study 1, we examined whether … students (n = 84) with different cognitive styles differ in their entrepreneurial attitudes. Results showed a strong positive … in entrepreneurship. Study 2 focused on the link between students’ career anchors and their cognitive styles and …

survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields …

accounting and auditing courses. Design/methodology/approach – Students enrolled in a highly diversified, commuter, public …

attitudes of students, future potential entrepreneurs, to new venture creation. Based on 4413 responses of students enrolled in … Portuguese higher education institutions, gathered in June-July 2008, we found, using a multivariate model, that students who had … risk propensity or creativity. Those students that have taken some steps to create new businesses and, to a larger extent …

various factors which affect students' decisions on funding their tertiary study using student loans or through other means … influenced by students' socioeconomic status. Other major influences on this decision include students' demographic and …-ride the influence that family background has on loan taking behaviour. That is, poor students use loans regardless of the …

students are often accused of being less pro-social. The explanations given are that less pro-social people choose to study … economics or that economics studies indoctrinate students to selfish behavior. The paper experimentally tests these postulations … different groups of students. Findings – The experiment supports neither of the postulations: economics students would be …

Purpose – To investigate how the financial status of students in England and France affects their experience of …. There were 168 responses from students studying at a French university and 325 responses from students studying at an … English university. Findings – The financial burden in France rests with parents, while in England students are largely …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the students' perception about the importance of incorporating … assessment process by offering a course on environmental accounting as an intervention, to a sample of 28 management students … students before and after the intervention in order to understand the difference of their perception level. Findings – The …

In this study has been tried to found evidence that entrepreneurship education has impact on students' behavior and … obtained by the same process, in terms of students' perceptions. We found evidence that entrepreneurship education assumes an …