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

fYear

2011

fDate

29-31 July 2011

Firstpage

550

Lastpage

553

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCGIn.2011.145

Filename

6003947