Conference paper
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION OF CROATIAN AND SWEDEN STUDENTS
Najla Podrug
; Department for Organization and Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ivona Vrdoljak Raguž
orcid.org/0000-0002-3237-4694
; Department of Economics and Business Economics, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
Melisa Dedić
Abstract
Entrepreneurial orientation is manifested through the dimensions of innovation, proactivity, risk-taking, competitiveness and autonomy. Numerous factors are responsible for its formation, and along with one's personality, one of the factors could as well be the influence of culture and education. Different cultures specify diverse expectations of an entrepreneurial career. The focus of this paper was the comparison of entrepreneurial orientation of Croatian and Swedish students. Croatian students show significantly lower entrepreneurial intention than Swedish students, and positive attitudes are more frequent with Swedish students. Swedish students consider the entrepreneurial climate to be more evident in their schools than Croatian students. Confidence in their own entrepreneurial skills for Croatian students is dependent on the support of the environment, which is not the case with Swedish students whose confidence depends solely on how individually entrepreneurial they are.
Keywords
entrepreneurial orientation; Croatia; Sweden
Hrčak ID:
161599
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2015.
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