The Role of Economic Academic Education on Entrepreneurial Behaviour
Author:Renata Dana Niţu-Antonie and Emőke-Szidónia Feder
JEL:L26
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Keywords:entrepreneurship and business education, personality characteristics,
entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial behaviour.
Abstract:
The study aims to identify the role played by personality characteristics on entrepreneurial
intentions and resultant behaviours, in the case of university students with economic
education. The analysis was performed on a group of undergraduate and master degree
students of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from the West
University of Timişoara. For the investigated population, empirical results indicate that: (i)
personality characteristics are antecedents of behavioural characteristics depending on
situational constraints that allow their expression; (ii) behavioural characteristics emerge as
significant predictors of entrepreneurial intention; (iii) entrepreneurial intention is a primary
forecaster of real entrepreneurial activity; (iv) the increase of educational level and study
programs’ specificity, to which the investigated population belongs, guarantee for
entrepreneurial awareness raising and instruction of aspirant entrepreneurs.