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Proceedings of

International Conference on Advances in Management, Economics and Social Science MES 2014

"HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PERSONAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM GREECE"

ANNA SAITI SOPHIA PROVATARI
DOI
10.15224/978-1-63248-023-1-95
Pages
62 - 69
Authors
2
ISBN
978-1-63248-023-1

Abstract: “The purpose of this paper is to investigate, through empirical analysis, a) whether or not undergraduate students have any entrepreneurial intentions, based on their psychological characteristics such as locus of control, etc. and b) whether or not these psychological characteristics have any impact on their entrepreneurial intentions. For this purpose, anonymous questionnaires were administered to undergraduate students in the third and final year in higher education institutions in the Athens area. Statistical tools were employed in order to analyse the collective data. Results indicated that in general Greek undergraduate students were not risk-takers while they had little inclination towards entrepreneurship. Moreover, Greek undergraduate students have shown a positive locus of control, good self confidence and an aptitude for innovation while they have not shown high levels of tolerance to ambiguity Taking into consideration that a) the economic development and the competitive adv”

Keywords: locus of control, good, self confidence and an aptitude

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