Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v18i4.1774
Social Entrepreneurship Education and Its Association with Perceived Desirability and Feasibility of Social Entrepreneurship among Business Students
Irena Kedmenec
; Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb
Miroslav Rebernik
; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor
Polona Tominc
; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between social entrepreneurship education and experience in prosocial behaviour on the one hand and the perceived desirability and feasibility of social entrepreneurship among business students on the other. A sample consisting of business students was selected bearing in mind the possible implications of this study on business education curricula. The sample included 512 soon-to-graduate business students from five countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and The Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia. Our results indicate a statistically significant positive association between the “know what” component of social entrepreneurship education and both the desirability and the feasibility of social entrepreneurship. The “know how” component of social entrepreneurship education is statistically significantly positively associated with the feasibility of social entrepreneurship. Experience in prosocial behaviour has a statistically significant positive association with both the desirability and the feasibility of social entrepreneurship. Our results suggest that social entrepreneurship education programmes should include gaining some experience in volunteering, activism and making donations. These activities focus students’ attention on social problems and empower them to find proper solutions.
Keywords
prosocial behaviour; social entrepreneurship desirability; social entrepreneurship feasibility
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172313
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Publication date:
29.12.2016.
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