Social and economic factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention of university students

Belás, Jaroslav; Gavurová, Beáta; Schonfeld, Jaroslav; Zvaríková, Katarína; Kacerauskas, Tomas

dc.title	Social and economic factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention of university students	en
dc.contributor.author	Belás, Jaroslav
dc.contributor.author	Gavurová, Beáta
dc.contributor.author	Schonfeld, Jaroslav
dc.contributor.author	Zvaríková, Katarína
dc.contributor.author	Kacerauskas, Tomas
dc.relation.ispartof	Transformations in Business and Economics
dc.identifier.issn	1648-4460 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2017
utb.relation.volume	16
utb.relation.issue	3
dc.citation.spage	220
dc.citation.epage	239
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
dc.subject	social and economic factors	en
dc.subject	business inclination	en
dc.subject	entrepreneurship	en
dc.subject	improvement of business environment	en
dc.subject	university studies	en
dc.subject	potential entrepreneurs	en
dc.subject	creativity	en
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this research is to investigate and quantify the relationship of social and economic factors of students' inclination towards entrepreneurship. The most positive answers with the consent of the respondents belong to the presence of an entrepreneur in the family, preparation of high-quality conditions for establishment of business, improvement of business environment in a country in the last five years, appropriateness of the credit conditions of commercial banks in a country, high quality educational structure of the alma mater university, possession of abilities to do business, presence of an irregular income as the most important disadvantage of doing business, and finally, interest in business in general. On the other hand, the most negative answers with dissension of the respondents belong to the high-quality of the state of legal conditions for doing business, convenience and the appropriateness of business environment to establish business, risk-resistance of business environment enabling to start business, high-quality state of university education, possibility of career growth and interesting job opportunities due to doing business, lack of time of the businessperson for the family, and finally, creation of a new business in case nothing expected happens.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1007702
utb.identifier.obdid	43877095
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85039916361
utb.identifier.wok	000417226500015
utb.source	j-wok
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-15T16:31:40Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-15T16:31:40Z
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Belás, Jaroslav
utb.fulltext.affiliation	1 Jaroslav Belas Department of Enterprise Economics Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlín Mostní 5139 760 01 Zlín Czech Republic Tel.: +420 576 032 410 E-mail: belas@fame.utb.cz 2 Beata Gavurova Department of Banking and Investment Faculty of Economics Technical University of Košice Němcovej 32 040 01 Košice Slovakia Tel.: +421 55 602 3267 E-mail: beata.gavurova@tuke.sk 3 Jaroslav Schonfeld Faculty of Business Administration University of Economics, Prague nám. W. Churchilla 4 130 67 Prague Czech Republic Tel.: +420 224 09 8652 E-mail: schonfeld@vse.cz 4 Katarina Zvarikova Department of Economics Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications University of Žilina Univerzitna 8215/1 010 26 Žilina Slovakia E-mail: katarina.zvarikova@fpedas.uniza.sk 5 Tomas Kacerauskas Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies Faculty of Creative Industries Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Saulėtekio al. 11 LT-10223 Vilnius Lithuania E-mail: tomas.kacerauskas@vgtu.lt
utb.fulltext.dates	Received: April, 2016 1 st Revision: May, 2016 2 nd Revision: January, 2017 Accepted: April, 2017
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utb.wos.affiliation	[Belas, Jaroslav] Tomas Bata Univ Zlin, Fac Management & Econ, Dept Enterprise Econ, Mostni 5139, Zlin 76001, Czech Republic; [Gavurova, Beata] Tech Univ Kosice, Fac Econ, Dept Banking & Investment, Nemcovej 32, Kosice 04001, Slovakia; [Schonfeld, Jaroslav] Univ Econ Prague, Fac Business Adm, Nam W Churchilla 4, Prague 13067, Czech Republic; [Zvarikova, Katarina] Univ Zilina, Fac Operat & Econ Transport & Commun, Dept Econ, Univ 8215-1, Zilina 01026, Slovakia; [Kacerauskas, Tomas] Vilnius Gediminas Tech Univ, Fac Creat Ind, Dept Philosophy & Cultural Studies, Sauletekio Al 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
utb.scopus.affiliation	Department of Enterprise Economics, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Mostni 5139, Zlin, Czech Republic; Department of Banking and Investment, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, Nemcovej 32, Košice, Slovakia; Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague nam. W. Churchilla 4, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Univerzitna 8215/1, Žilina, Slovakia; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, Vilnius, Lithuania
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