A study on effects of system thinking and decision-making styles over entrepreneurship skills

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has an uncertain environment requiring several abilities to achieve the goal. The article explores the effects of individuals’ system thinking level, decision-making styles and family background on their entrepreneurial skills. In the study relational screening model is used as a research method. The sample group of the study consists of 65 students of the 4th grade students of a private university in Istanbul, Turkey in 2019. Three questionnaires have been applied and descriptive statistics and all the other tests have been conducted by using SPSS 26 to examine the extent of involvement, significance, direction and degree of the relationships. The results show that there is a positive moderate significant (r = 0.542) relationship between individuals’ entrepreneurship skill and system thinking level. Also a positive low level relationship (r = 0.374 p <0.05) has been detected between entrepreneurship skills and vigilance type of decision-making style. Negative low level of relationships (r = -0.123 and r = -0.244, p <0.05) among entrepreneurship skills, hypervigilance and procrastination types of decision-making styles. Moreover, no significant relationship has been found among entrepreneurship skills, parental education/job status and entrepreneurship experience/history in the family supporting the idea that entrepreneurship is a learnable skill rather than an innate skill.