Entrepreneurial Climate Research Articles

The importance of context: How university entrepreneurial climates enhances entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality graduates

Universities play a key role in shaping Tourism and Hospitality (T&H) students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI), referring to one's willingness and desire to consider the creation of a new venture as a career option. However, the importance of a university climate for entrepreneurship is often overlooked in enhancing entrepreneurial career aspirations in T&H students. Drawing on Social Cognitive Career Theory and Institutional Theory, this study examines the role of entrepreneurial climates within universities and the mechanism through which it can shape T&H students' entrepreneurial intentions. Using data from 190 T&H students in the final year of a tourism and hospitality program, the PLS-SEM results reveal that T&H students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy and outcome expectations play key sequential roles in translating entrepreneurial climates into greater EI. The findings highlight the importance of individual and contextual-level factors in the formation of EI among T&H students.

The COVID-19 Challenges to the Unfold of Entrepreneurship Education

This article reviews and discusses along the development and deployment of universities' entrepreneurship teaching and learning. It emphasizes on the detection, interpretation and analysis of entrepreneurial skill sets that can be directly established by structured educational programs. This analytical review and opinions also aims to illustrate and also describe how entrepreneurial discipline needs to evolve on the basis of the technological advancements that the current COVID-19 disaster has rendered reasonable to expect. The numerous relevant theories in entrepreneurial learning are indeed discussed, indicating the need to consider regarding future potential educational strategies in various possibilities. Some issues were established in a study of the previous research including the teaching substance, the teaching methodologies, the institutional characteristics and the proper teaching instructor that should deliver entrepreneurship education. The article concludes that educators should continuously evolve the instructional framework, practices, as well and instruction in response to an evolving entrepreneurship climate.

From entrepreneurship education to entrepreneurial intention: Mindset, motivation, and prior exposure.

We studied the relationships between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention among college students, with a focus on the mediating role of an entrepreneurial mindset as well as the moderating roles of learning motivation and prior entrepreneurial exposure. More than 90,000 students from 100 colleges or universities participated in the investigation, the data were subjected to structural equation modeling with Mplus. The results indicated that entrepreneurship education (curriculum attendance and extracurricular activity) significantly enhanced the entrepreneurial mindset of students, which, in turn, strengthened their entrepreneurial intention. In terms of learning, intrinsic motivation positively moderated the relationships between curriculum attendance and entrepreneurial intention/mindset, whereas extrinsic motivation moderated it negatively. Entrepreneurial exposure positively moderated the correlation between extracurricular activity and academic performance. Implications concerning the adjustment of entrepreneurship education to the entrepreneurial climate are discussed.

Exploring the Entrepreneurial Climate and Attributes of Agripreneurs and its Determinants

The entrepreneurial climate is a set of tangible and intangible factors that shape and create a climate for agripreneurship in a region or area. An attitude scale was developed with 44 items (36 items positive and 8 negatives) during 2022. It was administered to 120 agripreneurs of Uttar Pradesh and it was found that the majority of the factors namely institutional, psychological, cognitive, sociological, economical, and managerial were contributing significantly to creating and shaping the entrepreneurial climate. Among these major factors, managerial factors were contributing most prominently with the highest total mean score of 2.83. The possible relation between socio-personal, socio-psychological, and entrepreneurial variables was explored considering the various dimensions of entrepreneurial climate as dependent variables. It was found that the majority of characteristics was associated with entrepreneurial climate and was able to define to the extent of 62.30 per cent.

Risk-Taking and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Intention in Côte d’Ivoire SMEs: Moderating Role of Government Subsidy policy

This study’s goal was to examine the impact of SME risk-taking and government support policies on the sustainability of SMEs, using a Moderating Effect Model. The research was conducted through structured interviews to gain insight into Business Risk-Taking and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Intention among SMEs in Côte d’Ivoire. Participants were chosen using a purposive sampling strategy in order to gather qualitative data. 509 respondents completed a self-administered questionnaire, which was used to gather data. Using PLS-SEM, the data were analysed and several hypotheses were evaluated. The study discovered that, through the indirect influence of risk propensity, risk attitude, and risk assessment, government subsidy policy moderation has a positive and substantial link between risk-taking and sustainable entrepreneurial goals. Governments and private finance sources might find these insights useful for fostering a more entrepreneurial climate.

STATE POLICY OF PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE: FROM THE CLASSICAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUSINESS CLIMATE TO OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF WAR

The purpose of the study is to identify new challenges of the state policy of entrepreneurship development in war conditions, generalization of existing and development of new tools and means of the state policy of stimulating the development of entrepreneurship in the system of functioning and development of the national economy. The study revealed the relevance of the problem of the decline in business activity of the population in the conditions of a full-scale war, which is natural, as well as the justification of effective and efficient means of the state policy of restoring incentives to conduct business. It was established that the development of entrepreneurship is largely determined by a favorable business climate. In turn, its basic characteristics are the absence or at least a low natural level of transaction costs of doing business, transparency of information and competition, and an adequate level of protection of private property rights. It was concluded that the further improvement of the business environment of Ukraine requires the implementation of a complex of organizational and economic tools aimed at improving the accessibility of small and medium-sized business entities to markets, protection and accessibility of activity rights, attraction of economic resources, development of market and business infrastructure, protection information, involvement of management technologies, implementation of investments and innovations. The most critical problematic aspects (challenges) of domestic business in the conditions of war have been identified, taking into account the specifics of the industry. It was established that the state in its policy of stimulating the development of enterprises in wartime should take into account such aspects as insurance, preservation of the material, technical and technical and technological base of enterprises, assistance in attracting cheap long-term loans for the reconstruction, preservation and modernization of production facilities, improvement of the security system enterprises with working capital, preservation of human and, in particular, labor and intellectual capital of domestic business entities. The scientific novelty and applied value of the research results lies in the improvement of the methodological and applied principles of the formation of a system of tools for improving the entrepreneurial climate both in standard conditions and in a critically complicated environment during a full-scale war.

Social and community entrepreneurship in the context of changes and crisis in Ecuador

Social or community enterprises are part of the popular economy oriented towards the satisfaction of the needs of the community rather than profit. Social entrepreneurship in the world has helped to improve employment and even the growth of nations. This article analyzes the relevance of socialentrepreneurship in Ecuador, its strengths, and its weaknesses. The document review method is used to provide state-of-the-art and question knowledge. In Ecuador, there is a legal framework and an enabling public policy. In addition, there has been a good figure for the country in the last decade, in relation to international measurements of the Entrepreneurship climate and the rate of entrepreneurial activity. The COVID-19 pandemic, the country's economic difficulties, and policy constraints, especially in the area of financing, have been obstacles to the growth of entrepreneurship.

Imbalances and risks of the regional development of Ukraine’s economy under conditions of instability

Purpose. The research aims to detect main trends of regional development of Ukraine’s economy, and substantiate imbalances and risks, which must be taken into account in the formation of a new model of regional development of Ukraine and improving financial-economic resilience under conditions of modern turbulence.
 Methodology / approach. The general theoretical scientific methods, fundamental principles of regional economy, which are highlighted in the works of both Ukrainian and foreign scientists on spatial development. The following research methods were used to perform to fulfill the tasks: abstract-logical, comparative and correlation analysis, graphic visualization, statistical.
 Results. The research puts forward a rage of hypotheses: the regions with higher economic activity concentration develop faster; the regions oriented on technology-intensive economic activity types and with high innovation activity level have higher chances for economic growth; economic growth can result in growing interregional inequalities and imbalances in a long run; economically powerful regions are more resilient to financial and economic crises. Their verification shows that the economic development of Ukrainian regions is determined by factors other than initial economic capacity. Ukrainian regions are hardly developing according to the recognized global development principles. Their economic success is ensured by orientation on the agricultural output (usually low-margin) rather than technology-intensive economic activities and dynamic innovative activity. Interregional comparisons of business environment condition and economic growth of Ukrainian regions prove that the regions-leaders by economic growth paces are characterized by the relatively higher quality of entrepreneurial climate. Moreover, recently, they have been improving their positions in regional doing business rankings. Meanwhile, the largest group of Ukrainian regions, which still have positive rates of economic development, is the outsider in terms of both the business climate quality and loss of ranking positions. The most difficult situation with entrepreneurship environment is in Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, and Kherson oblasts. Therefore, the regions that used to be oriented on large enterprises of the industrial sector have not managed to reorient themselves on the support of entrepreneurship and stimulation of entrepreneurial activity. However, a positive sign is a significant improvement of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts positions in the rankings.
 Originality / scientific novelty. Based on the studying of regional development trends under crisis conditions of financial-economic turbulence, the research outlines current risks of regional economic growth, including the risk of further loss of economic capacity of Ukraine and its regions to achieve resilient growth, the risk of delayed effect of economic growth slowdown in a short-term period, the risk of growing economic development imbalances of Ukrainian regions. 
 Practical value / implications. The value of the study lies in the use of identified trends and risks in building a new methodology of state regional policy and updating tools to stimulate economic development of Ukraine, which will increase the stability of the economy under conditions of financial and economic turbulence.

IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM PENGEMBANGAN INDUSTRI KECIL MENENGAH (IKM) OLEH DINAS PERINDUSTRIAN KABUPATEN BEKASI

Small and medium industries or commonly called IKMs are one of the main pillars for the government to create new jobs and ideas and creativity to produce goods with selling value. SMEs are also an important part of the economy for developing countries including Indonesia. Small and Medium Industry (IKM) is one of the industrial sectors that can be used as a foundation to create an entrepreneurial climate that can absorb labor. Small industry has a strategic position, potential and role in achieving national development goals. The method used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques that the researchers used were interviews, observation and documentation. Actions in data analysis are data reduction, data presentation, conclusion drawing and verification as well as using Charles O. Jones' theory of policy implementation which includes Organization, Interpretation, and Application. The results of this study can be seen that the implementation of the Small and Medium Industry Development Program (IKM) by the Bekasi Regency Industry Office has been going quite well. However, based on research in the field, there are still problems that need to be addressed in order to increase the development of SMEs in realizing national development goals.Keywords: Development, Economics, Industry

DO UNIVERSITY SUPPORT, ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDES, SUBJECTIVE NORMS, AND SELF-EFFICACY INFLUENCE STUDENT ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION?

Abstract- This study aims to examine the effect of university entrepreneurship support on entrepreneurial intentions which are influenced by the mediating effect of entrepreneurial attitudes, subjective norms, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in undergraduate students studying in Jakarta and or Tangerang. The sampling technique used is the purposive sampling technique where the respondents were undergraduate students in Jakarta and or Tangerang who have entered their universities for at least one year. The sample used in this study comprises 280 respondents with data collection methods in the form of electronic questionnaires. The data was processed using PLS-SEM descriptive analysis using SmartPLS software. The results showed that university entrepreneurship support had a positive influence on entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and self-efficacy. The study also showed a significant mediating effect of attitudes and self-efficacy on the positive relationship of university entrepreneurship support to entrepreneurial intentions. The results of this study contribute to showing that the role of education in universities still plays a significant role in the formation of students' self that encourages the emergence of entrepreneurship among undergraduate graduates. Therefore, the formation of programs and a combination of practical training and an entrepreneurial climate at the higher education level need to be a concern for the development of entrepreneurship in developing countries.
 Keywords: University Entrepreneurship Support; Subjective Norms; Attitudes; Self-Efficacy; Entrepreneurial Intentions

Information Support for Management Tasks in the Conditions of Digital Transformation

The expediency of developing services (services) to support work with risks associated with massive inconsistencies of spatial data during their integration from various legally significant sources for the implementation of transactions, functions, services, management decisions is substantiated. It is a relevant and effective direction of digital transformation in the context of the development of the National System spatial data and the development of accounting systems and registration of real estate, the data of which are one of the foundations of the development of the entrepreneurial climate. The implementation of such services will significantly reduce the transaction costs of all participants in the real estate market and circulation of spatial data, increase the efficiency of digital platforms that integrate relevant data at the federal and regional levels, provide the basis for the recoupment of such services and expert advisory services of Competence Centers in this area.

Entrepreneurship Education and Student’s entrepreneurial Intention. The Mediating Role of University Entrepreneurial Climate

Entrepreneurship Education and Student’s entrepreneurial Intention. The Mediating Role of University Entrepreneurial Climate

The Entrepreneurial Intention of Algerian Students: Between Disillusionment of the Entrepreneurial Climate and Self-Confidence

This article studies the entrepreneurial intention of Algerian students to explain the weakness in business creation in the country. Theoretical and empirical evidence on this subject is scarce, particularly among young Algerians. By combining two dominant research trends in the field of entrepreneurship, namely an approach based on contextual factors, and one based on individual characteristics, we examined the impact of perceived entrepreneurial climate and entrepreneurial self-efficacy on Algerian students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Our study, contextualized in the student environment, aims to analyze how entrepreneurship education moderated the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Based on a sample of 302 students, our survey yielded two important results. The first was the negative effect of perceived entrepreneurial climate on entrepreneurial intention. The second was that as a moderating factor, entrepreneurship education did not reinforce the significant direct influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the intention to start a business among Algerian students. These insights may help improve the level of entrepreneurial intention within developing countries.

Development of Scale to Measure Agripreneurs Attitude towards Entrepreneurial Climate

Attitude plays a crucial role in influencing one’s behaviour with respect to a particular psychological object. To measure the attitude of farmers towards entrepreneurial climate for agrienterprise development, need was realized to devise a scale and a Likert’s Summated Rating scale was constructed by following the standard methodology suggested. Attitude towards entrepreneurial climate was categorized in six specific dimensions viz. Institutional factors, psychological factors, cognitive factors, managerial factors, sociological factors and economic factors. A total of 141 items were constructed and was sent to 124 experts through email, Google docs form and handed over personally by visiting to the experts. Based on the 43 experts’ responses 72 items were screened out for item analysis. The scale was administered to 80 agripreneurs of Uttar Pradesh. The odd-even method was followed for testing reliability of the scale and reliability co-efficient was 0.66. The validity of the scale was examined with the help of face and content validity. The scale developed finally consisted of 44 items (36 positive and 8 negative).

Assessment of the business climate for SMEs: The case of Moscow Region municipalities

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors affecting the business climate in the Moscow Region municipalities, to determine the nature of this influence, and on this basis to formulate recommendations for improving the business climate. The concept of “business climate” is treated as a combination of objective and subjective factors that affect entrepreneurial activity in a particular area. Based on the analysis of methods for assessing the business climate and the availability of data, factors such as financial support for small and medium-sized businesses, the level of development of urban infrastructure, the functioning of co-working centers, the difficulty of registering a business, obtaining licenses and permits for activities, the difficulty of paying taxes and finding personnel were selected, as well as a subjective assessment of the level of infrastructure development, the attitude of society towards entrepreneurs. In accordance with the results obtained, the level of development of urban infrastructure and the ease of registering a business make the entrepreneurial climate of the municipality more favorable and have a significant positive impact on entrepreneurial activity. According to the results of the survey, it can be concluded that the greatest difficulty for entrepreneurs is the search for personnel with the necessary qualifications. The number of coworking centers does not have a statistically significant impact on the level of entrepreneurial activity. The results obtained largely consistent with the findings of other studies. Thus, in order to improve the business climate, it is important to develop the urban environment, as well as to simplify the procedure for registering a business. It is recommended to hold more events (for example, job fairs in educational institutions) that will help entrepreneurs find qualified specialists, organize special programs for advanced training and retraining of personnel. In addition, it is recommended to expand the list of factors taken into account to assess the business climate in the Moscow Region and include the attitude of society towards entrepreneurs, as well as the level of development of urban infrastructure and the ease of business registration.

Концептуальные подходы к формированию условий благоприятного предпринимательского климата хозяйствующих субъектов потребительского рынка Хабаровского края

Development and active support of entrepreneurship, including the regional entrepreneurship, is a priority task of the long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. Due to the wide territorial (administrative) differentiation of the conditions in which business entities carry out their activities, the expediency of using different mechanisms of influence on business entities in different regions is obvious. In this article the entrepreneurial climate of the region is understood as the opportunities and conditions for doing business and achieving its goals that are common to all or most entrepreneurs operating in a particular territory. The authors analyze the entrepreneurial climate of the Khabarovsk territory because of the interaction of objective (geographical features of the region, the level of development of the territory, natural conditions and resources, population and settlement, structure, level of development of production, non-production, and «infrastructure» spheres) and subjective factors (purposeful activity of state and municipal authorities and management). The assessment of the business climate in the Khabarovsk territory is supplemented by the results of a survey of entrepreneurs, including those with experience in stopping entrepreneurial activity. Based on a comprehensive assessment, conceptual approaches to the formation of conditions for a favorable business climate of economic entities of the consumer market of the Khabarovsk territory are formulated

Generic entrepreneurship education program design for universities

Universities in Indonesia have implemented entrepreneurship education, and some have committed to developing a good entrepreneurial culture. This study aims to design an entrepreneurship education program as a generic model applicable to universities. The method in this research is qualitative descriptive with a case study approach. The research was conducted at four universities in Indonesia. Data was obtained using in-depth interviews and observation. Data analysis uses triangulation, namely collecting data, validating data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. The study results indicate that the entrepreneurship education program model should be considered, and one university must own it. The implementation of entrepreneurship education programs must be carried out in stages, continuously, and integrated manner. The entrepreneurship education model offered is generic. Entrepreneurial culture will be more developed because it is interpreted or perceived as an attitude or mental character that helps in all work. It has been proved that the implementation of entrepreneurship education needs to consider management factors such as university commitment, entrepreneurial climate, main activities, supporting activities, infrastructure, facilities, and cooperation.

Mengembangkan Jiwa Entrepreneurship Perspektif Al-Qur’an

Indonesia is an Islamic country or a country where the majority of the population is Muslim. There is a lot of negative labeling, such as unemployment, poverty, and low literacy. Especially in the problem of unemployment because of the entrepreneurial spirit that is not widely owned and practiced by Muslims. Islam has taught entrepreneurship through the Prophet Muhammad SAW, entrepreneurship coupled with morals can be a workable solution. This research is library research, data is obtained by reviewing the literature literature. While the analysis uses the content analysis method. The results of the research show that: (1) Al-Qur'an provides several pointers and attitudes to life that should be lived, namely: the suggestion to work as in surah Hud verse 6, and have a broad insight as in surah al-Alaq verse 1-5. (2) There is an intention or desire to do good to fellow humans. No exception in entrepreneurship, where by doing good to others, a good and useful entrepreneurial climate will emerge in the future which has been mentioned in surah al-Hajj verse 77.

University’s support for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of entrepreneurial climate

PurposeDrawing on institutional theory, this paper seeks to untangle the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Specifically, this study aims to examine whether entrepreneurial climates within universities mediate the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intention.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data is drawn from 195 students across three Malaysian higher education institutions. Partial least squares procedures are used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsFindings show that no element of university support for entrepreneurship had a direct effect on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. However, the entrepreneurial climate was found – to mediate the relationship between perceived business and concept development support and students’ entrepreneurial intentions.Originality/valueThis study represents one of the few efforts in the literature considering the role of entrepreneurial climates within universities in influencing students’ entrepreneurial intention. In considering the mediating role of entrepreneurial climate, in the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intentions, this study provides a complementary and contextualised perspective, to existing studies, which have traditionally focussed on the mediating role of individual attributes. Doing so provides further evidence of entrepreneurial universities in fostering entrepreneurship.

Guanxi circles and light entrepreneurship in social commerce: The roles of mass entrepreneurship climate and technology affordances

Motivated by the phenomenon of customer entrepreneurship in China and the associated research gaps, we conduct a case study to explore how customer entrepreneurs realize benefits from light entrepreneurship enabled by guanxi circles and social commerce affordances. Our study derives a process model that describes how customer entrepreneurs benefit from light entrepreneurship through acquiring knowledge and sharing knowledge within guanxi circles embedded in social media. We also demonstrate the roles of the mass entrepreneurship climate and the social commerce affordances in this benefit realization process. This study contributes to the research and practice with respect to technology-enabled customer entrepreneurship.