Title :
Entrepreneurial Competencies of College Students: A Qualitative Analysis
Author :
Hui, Wang ; Qiao-ping, Lin ; Hui-hua, Zhang
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sch., Shanghai Inst. of Foreign Trade, Shanghai, China
Abstract :
The study, based on Behavioral Event Interview (BEI), has interviewed a total of 12 students or graduates who´re starting an undertaking from 11 venture enterprises. Through coding analysis, the study finds that 7 dimensions of entrepreneurial competencies are the obvious performances of the student entrepreneurs. They are opportunity competency, relationship competency, resources integration competency, innovation competency, entrepreneurial aspiration competency, entrepreneurial perseverance competency, and entrepreneurial learning competency. On that basis, the future studies can develop measuring scale of the entrepreneurial competencies of college students to advance the related theories and empirical researches.
Keywords :
commerce; management education; behavioral event interview; college students; entrepreneurial aspiration competency; entrepreneurial learning competency; entrepreneurial perseverance competency; innovation competency; opportunity competency; relationship competency; resources integration competency; student entrepreneurs; Companies; Educational institutions; Encoding; Interviews; Technological innovation; BEI; College Student; Entrepreneurial Competency; Qualitative Analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0788-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4464-9
DOI :
10.1109/BCGIn.2011.145
