Entrepreneurial Projects Research Articles

Habitus in The Implementation of Pancasila Student Profile Strengthening Project Through Entrepreneurship Project at School

Indonesian education remains a complex challenge. In addition to quality issues, it faces the challenge of the waning character of the younger generation. This study aimed to identify the habitus in implementing Pancasila student profile strengthening project (P5) through a local wisdom-based entrepreneurship project at SMA Negeri 1 Kendal. A qualitative research method was employed in this study. The results showed that the principal, P5 team, assisting teachers, and learners' roles determine the project's success. The learners' habitus also plays an essential role in their success in completing the project. The research novelty lies in Pierre Bourdieu's utilization of the habitus concept to analyze entrepreneurship project implementation. Systematically designed project implementation activities to strengthen the Pancasila learner profile can serve as a medium for developing students with noble character, faith, devotion to God; cooperation; critical thinking; creativity; resilience, and independence. The entrepreneurship project is also an internalization of students' exterior and interior habitus. In addition, this study is expected to be beneficial as a reference for schools designing P5 activities. Schools should focus more on the existence and condition of learners' habitus in conceptualizing P5 activities in their respective schools.

The Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Migration: A Case Study of Lahore, Pakistan

The migrant entrepreneurs’ activities increasingly spread beyond national borders as they travel and move goods between countries. Yet, research still portrays a static and homogeneous picture of the phenomenon, which disregards complex biographies, evolving along multiple places over time, and cross-border activities beyond the origin and destination country. In response, this article uses a time-geographic and biographic approach, which allows for a more dynamic investigation of the different localities involved in migrants’ entrepreneurial projects and the evolution of cross-border resources throughout their history of migration. The presented study is based on quantitative research data collection through the distribution of 186 questionnaires among the educated faculty of the University of Management and Technology, Lahore. Because most research participants have multiple migration experiences and are female, it provides insights into understudied groups within the field. This article concludes that the lack of resource, poverty, and unemployment in Pakistan is the reason for the migration of educated people from Pakistan to abroad. In contrast to the classic literature, it highlights that the cross-border engagement of migrants often exceeds the origin–destination binary. Knowledge of economic and institutional environments, professional and intimate contacts, as well as other competencies that interviewees have developed within different localities and episodes of their mobile biographies, become important resources in this regard. Moreover, the study offers a nuanced view of the constraints experienced and strategies employed by different groups of migrants according to their position in society.

Integral viability analysis of entrepreneurial projects in critical contexts: Application to the case of the management of a shea mill in Kumbungu, Ghana

Purpose: This research presents a methodological proposal to analyse the viability of entrepreneurial projects in critical contexts of developing countries.Design/methodology/approach: The methodological proposal is applied to a case study on the integral viability analysis of a shea mill in Kumbungu (Ghana). Based on a qualitative design, different ad hoc participatory tools are implemented, such as a daily routine schedule, combined with other research techniques (focus groups, interviews, etc.).Findings: The proposal includes ten specific steps to analyse the viability of entrepreneurial projects. It involves, on the one hand, the active participation of the members of the community in order to be able to make a real analysis of their needs; and, on the other hand, an integrating analysis that allows evaluating the sustainability of the project from an economic, social and technological perspective. The methodology is applied to the start-up and management of a shea butter mill in Ghana. Some core aspects are highlighted: 1) people are considered key when making decisions, thus participatory tools (such as the daily routines workshop) can be essential in ensuring the sustainability of the enterprise; 2) the need to adapt the tools to the context. This is crucial in contexts such as Ghana, where language may be a barrier or because the illiteracy rate is high. And 3) from the methodology, it is concluded that it is necessary to prioritise the sustainability of the enterprise in general, not just efficiency.Originality/value: The research combines the classic tools of business viability analysis with those of development cooperation. In this sense, it is proposed to carry out an integral viability analysis that includes not only the economic sustainability of the project, but also the social and technological aspects and, more important, where the active participation of all the stakeholders is considered.

Целевая аудитория предпринимательского проекта и анализ способов ее определения в рамках проектной деятельности

The correct and detailed definition of the target audience contributes to the success of the business project. Despite the fact that today they distinguish innovative entrepreneurial projects separately, calling them start-ups, competition in the market requires that they be innovative a priori. Considering that the life span of such projects in Russia is an average of three years, it is advisable to collect data on the potential client before launching it. Meanwhile, according to statistics, 35–42 % of failures in the implementation of innovative entre-preneurial projects are due to the reasons associated with the incorrect definition of the target audience. In this regard, the article presents the rationale for the importance of knowing the potential addressee of an entrepre-neurial project, considers ways of determining the target audience, gives a brief description of them as part of the project activities according to three criteria: the purpose of the toolkit, the complexity of the analysis and the method of obtaining the information used. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that without a preliminary assess-ment of the demand for the proposed product from the addressable consumer, entering the market with any business project is inexpedient because of the high risks.

Exploration on Building a Part-Time Job Platform for College Students: Taking Xi’an Medical College as An Example

With the rapid development of the economy and the continuous progress of society, the competition for talents is becoming more and more intense, and the employment pressure of college students is increasing sharply. More and more college students are choosing to do part-time jobs while studying to improve their communication and hands-on skills and lay a solid foundation for future employment. However, due to the people with malicious intents, the part-time job market has become a mess, and cheating, skimming, trafficking have occurred from time to time, which are a great threat to the students’ safety. Besides, the enthusiasm of college students towards their part-time jobs will also be affected. This article is based on the innovation and entrepreneurship project, “Blueberry Part-time Job,” for college students at Xi’an Medical University, which provides a reference for the regularization of part-time jobs for college students and the construction of a part-time job platform for college students.

The Influence of Project Based Learning (PjBL) Model on Creative and Entrepreneurship Learning Outcomes of Students of SMK Negeri 1 Palembang

Project Based Learning (PjBL) is a learning model that creates a challenge by involving activeness, collaboration, between students in a project. This study aims to determine the effect of the PjBL Learning Model on Learning Outcomes of Creative Projects and Entrepreneurship Students of SMK Negeri 1 Palembang. The data collection technique uses observation of student activity and tests of learning outcomes for creative and entrepreneurial projects using the experimental method of the True Experimental Design type with the Posttest-Only Control Design form. Based on the results of the research and discussion, it can be concluded from testing the research using the Independent Sample T Test assisted by SPSS version 26 software with a significant level of 0.05, namely hypothesis 0.002, less than 0.05 (0.002 <0.05), it can be concluded that Ho rejected and Ha accepted, there is an influence of the PjBL Learning Model on Learning Outcomes of Creative Projects and Entrepreneurship Students of SMK Negeri 1 Palembang.

Towards a systemic entrepreneurship activity model

AbstractEntrepreneurship research would benefit from a mechanism gathering activity data from a large number of entrepreneurial initiatives. This paper starts by building on Zott and Amit’s activity system perspective to introduce a holistic activity model of entrepreneurship containing seven steps and 29 elements. This model has been used by 13,927 entrepreneurial projects between the years of 2015 to 2022. By applying a digital, non-participant observation method, this led to the development of a dataset containing information on 935,745 activities. We use three concrete research cases to exemplify how this model, method and dataset can be utilized for bringing research on entrepreneurial activities forward.

The entrepreneurial accompaniment process and the importance of context

PurposeBased on the different stages of the business creation process and using qualitative methods, this study's aim is to understand the functioning of the process of accompaniment entrepreneurs in the Tunisian context.Design/methodology/approachThe authors' exploratory research is qualitative. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with a manager of an entrepreneurial accompaniment structure and 11 entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs were subjected to a manual content analysis.FindingsThe results of the authors' research show the importance of the different mechanisms and structures put in place in the Tunisian context to promote private initiative. Tunisia is a diverse and very rich environment for the entrepreneurial process. The results of the authors' research confirm the processual nature of entrepreneurial accompaniment, which is presented as a continuum of five stages: the promoting of the entrepreneurial spirit, the exploration of the entrepreneurial profile, the study of the project and preparation of the business plan, the financing of the creation of a company and the creation of the company.Originality/valueThe authors' study contributes to a better understanding of the close relationship between the entrepreneurial process and accompaniment in order to confirm the procedural nature of the latter. Then, this study highlights the involvement of the context in entrepreneurial accompaniment and the role of this accompaniment in the success of the entrepreneurial project. In addition, the authors' survey confirms the interest of entrepreneurial accompaniment from the stage of promoting the entrepreneurial spirit until the effective creation of the company. Taking into account the specificities of each stage of the creation process, the study shows the interest of a procedural approach to entrepreneurial accompaniment in order to put in place the necessary and above all adequate measures to help the entrepreneur at each stage of the entrepreneurial process and, subsequently, maximize the chances of success of the entrepreneur's business.

#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis

Against a backdrop of the growing crisis in higher education, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and a longer-term precaritisation of the youth and graduate labour market, the last 2 years have witnessed an increased visibility and promotion of flexible, entrepreneurial and often digitally mediated forms of self-employment addressed at young women, including the ‘side hustle’. With media declarations such as ‘the university side hustle has come of age’, universities themselves have begun embedding initiatives that seemingly help students launch a ‘student side hustle’ as they turn passions into entrepreneurial projects. The student side hustle has been advocated as a feasible way of not only supplementing income while studying but also investing in one’s future employability in the context of increasingly uncertain graduate outcomes. In this article we connect the emergence of the student side hustle to a broader postfeminist landscape in which (young) women are invited to engage in entrepreneurial self-employment through the promise of ‘passionate work’, financial autonomy and time-freedom. We demonstrate that in the context of higher education, where women outnumber men and dominate the degree subjects increasingly badged as ‘low value’ due to declining graduate outcomes, institutional incitements to engage in the student side hustle are distinctly gendered. Crucially, we contend that this framing and promotion of the student side hustle – in which women become the ‘poster girls’ of entrepreneurialism – works to facilitate and sustain the myths and ideals of postfeminist success while masking the ongoing crises and gendered inequalities that underpin contemporary higher education and the graduate labour market.

A Study of Some Variables Affecting the Behavioral Changes of Entrepreneurship Projects in Qalyubia Governorate

A Study of Some Variables Affecting the Behavioral Changes of Entrepreneurship Projects in Qalyubia Governorate

The Social Returns of Entrepreneurship Projects in Qalyubia Governorate

The Social Returns of Entrepreneurship Projects in Qalyubia Governorate

Improving the Security and Reliability of a Quality Marketing Information System: A Priority Prerequisite for Good Strategic Management of a Successful Entrepreneurial Project

Thanks to the security policy of the marketing information system which includes physical, administrative and logical safeguards, organizations are today able to design marketing and sales strategies that enable them to effectively respond and satisfy their customers' needs and expectations in a timely and cost effective manner and this by protecting the relevant information and data circulating in the said information system against any attempt at attack or malicious intrusion which seeks only to harm its reliability, confidentiality, integrity, availability and credibility. Indeed with this security policy we arrive easily to identify each discrepancy observed in the behavior of persons accessing this marketing information system as well as each mismatch between the service provided to users and the service expected by them, a context that pushes this security system to generate automatically some countermeasures such as encryption, decryption, hashing, electronic signature, intrusion detection and prevention and certification

Investigating the Pedagogical Potential of Entrepreneurial Projects in Higher Education

The current rate of technological advancement across the globe underlines the importance of higher education institutions incorporating project-based learning into their teaching approaches. This article investigates the capacity of entrepreneurial projects to address the skills gap in the Sub-Saharan African higher education sector. This study was conducted in two rural universities in South Africa and Nigeria. Data were collected from student participants from the two institutions using semi-structured questionnaires. The authors discovered that, despite the involvement of student participants in entrepreneurial projects over a considerable period of time, most participants from both universities still exhibit inadequate skill levels. This result suggests that certain conditions should be met for entrepreneurial projects to be considered effective for teaching and learning in the higher education context. It is imperative to include enabling factors such as high-quality mentoring from industry professionals and an unwavering university support system for student entrepreneurs. These enabling factors are cornerstones that strengthen a university's entrepreneurial standing.
 
 Received: 8 January 2023 / Accepted: 2 April 2023 / Published: 5 May 2023

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN ALGERIA BETWEEN FINANCING OBSTACLES AND PROSPECTS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This research paper aims to shed light on the reality of women's economic empowerment in Algeria as a goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030. Algeria has realized the importance of integrating and empowering women socially, culturally and economically, so it worked to provide the legal environment supportive of the positive participation of women in economic activities. This is in addition to the international agreements that it has ratified to achieve the empowerment of women and activate their role in development. The study sought to answer the main question, which revolves around the challenges that women face in leading their own projects by analyzing the obstacles that women face and limit their economic contribution to society, as Algeria includes the largest percentage of women engineering graduates in the world, with a rate of 48.5% of the total engineering graduates. In the country, however, men still dominate the profession itself. In order to answer this problem, the deductive approach is relied on, with its appropriate description and analysis tools, to study the legal and financial system to support women’s entrepreneurship, confront the obstacles that prevent them from achieving their success, and put forward proposals that contribute to their pioneering leadership in the business world. The study reached a set of results, the most important of which is that women in Algeria face many social, administrative and economic difficulties in the field of entrepreneurship. The authorities must work to promote innovation and creativity in women's entrepreneurship projects and provide legal and financial support to develop their creativity while finding innovative ways to market and develop women's entrepreneurship projects

Start-Up and Perceived Entrepreneurial Intention of Master-Level Students of Management

Various circumstances may influence the entrepreneurial intent of students. The likelihood that a student will engage in entrepreneurial action in the future depends on their entrepreneurial intention. The major goal of the study is to comprehend how master's level management students from Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City's entrepreneurial purpose is influenced by attitude toward behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurship education, and personality features. Distribution of survey questionnaires to respondents at several master's level management colleges in Butwal is how the basic data for this study was obtained. Of the 271 successful responses, 271 were considered in the analysis. Every variable is subjected to Cronbach's alpha reliability test, which ensures high-reliability results. In this study, multiple linear regression analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient are used to analyze the observed independent variables (i.e. attitude towards behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurship education, and personality traits). The association between each factor and entrepreneurial intent is important. The study's findings show that most master's level management students are planning to participate in entrepreneurial projects in the future, which is positive. To raise student knowledge of career options as entrepreneurs, policymakers and academics must get involved early in the process of providing entrepreneurship education. To increase students' motivation, family, friends, and relatives must be encouraged to provide structural support.

Contemporary Perspectives for Technological Entrepreneurship in the Age of Change: Between Success and Resilience

Problem: why are some technology entrepreneurship projects successfully, resilient and others not when they are executed in the same ecosystem? 
 
 Research objectives: to revise conceptual and theoretical portraits of the process of technological entrepreneurship; propose a model that incorporates multidimensional factors that can effectively contribute to the success and resilience of technology entrepreneurship.
 
 Methodology: we used the inductive approach and a qualitative exploratory strategy. Private and public companies are our sample for convenience.
 
 Results: at the design stage, human capital and relationship capital identify market issues and opportunities. at the implementation and development stage, human, relational, structural, and technological capital are effective levers to generate performance and resilience. Finally, at the marketing and consolidation stage, human, structural, relational, financial, and technological capital have an undeniable contribution. But it is above all the integration of all these factors that generates success and resilience. 
 
 Implications and limitations: the chapter is useful for researchers, entrepreneurs and governments who will find strategies to enhance the success and resilience of technological entrepreneurship. This research is part of the theory of artificial science. The adoption of an inductive approach and a qualitative strategy is one of its limitations. Future research could use the mixed strategy to extrapolate results.

Developing a measurement scale of corporate socially responsible entrepreneurship in sustainable management

Two important lines of research come together in this paper: entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Both stand out for their ability to contribute to sustainable development and generate competitive and social advantages. This study combined both approaches under the concept of CSR entrepreneurship (CSRE). A scale was developed to assess corporate socially responsible entrepreneurs’ traits in corporate contexts (i.e., CSRE-s). This quantitative measurement instrument was initially composed of 84 items, which were subjected to various validity and reliability tests. Exploratory factor and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to identify the most significant determinant variables of individuals engaging in CSRE. The validated CSRE-s indicates that the corporate socially responsible entrepreneurship construct involves 6 entrepreneurship factors and 3 CSR dimensions—environmental, social, and economic—with 2 factors each (i.e., 6 factors), assessed by a total of 76 items. This research’s main contribution is the identification of CSRE features in entrepreneurs that together constitute an original, unique, and innovative framework for a sustainable development approach to entrepreneurship. The proposed conceptual model can be used to ensure the CSR values validated for the CSRE-s are incorporated into entrepreneurial training programs (i.e., universities), the public sector’s policies promoting entrepreneurship, and strategic business plans for expansion via entrepreneurship. The CSRE-s can be used to strengthen these three areas simultaneously, which should provide social advantages to all stakeholders via the sustainable management of entrepreneurial projects.

The Position of the University in the Infrastructure, Which Supports Technological Entrepreneurship

The article’s goal is to eliminate the contradiction between the need for university activities to support and develop technological entrepreneurship and the lack of a sequence of steps leading to the achievement of the desired result. This contradiction is proposed to be resolved by identifying the position of the university in the infrastructure supporting technological entrepreneurship.The paper highlights three main infrastructural positions of the university, called “Supplier of Talents”, “Platform of Academic Technological Entrepreneurship” and “Technological Entrepreneurial Hub”. The first focuses on the development of creative thinking of students seeking to develop high-tech products and support their entrepreneurial intentions. The second focuses on the achievements of university researchers, based on which promising high-tech start-ups are launched and profitable small innovative enterprises are developed. The third relies on mediation and facilitation to coordinate communications between key parties for promoting high-tech business. In this position, the university is an access point to the main success factors of a technological entrepreneurial project. It is more than others capable of stimulating the economic development of the region.One university can hold several positions. Each of the listed positions is endowed with functional characteristics corresponding to their purpose and performs the tasks assigned to them. Starting from an infrastructural position close to the university, it becomes possible to clearly define the criteria that the university needs to have to effectively fulfill these tasks. And the presence of criteria makes it possible to identify dominant problems, adapt university resources, and bring social practices and educational technologies into line.

Digital Transformation to achieve Sustainability (UAE development plan till 2030- case Study)

Problem of the Research- lately the economic environment is completely differing than 20th century and even than the last decades of 21st century. Novel idioms, notable expectations have been innovated that related to economic, social, political and even behavioral aspects of life; the competency does not limit with qualified intellectual human resources rather than the use of knowledge and novel aspects of technologies due to the rapid dynamic development of virtual economy. Thus, global economies experienced a rebirth of economic system. Design, Methodology, Approach- it is an inductive study “UAE” as a sample; in which it extrapolates and analyze the studies and essays that related to economic digitization. Descriptive and analytical tools used to study the related aspects of phenomena. Finding- UAE in general and Dubai in specific has a great role in achieving many entrepreneurial projects as a part of intelligent governmental program. Digitization programs become an obvious feature in most governmental programs such as medical, smart educational and banking usages; meanwhile, these programs are available for all in a lowest price of cost. Dubai tries to follow its vision for (2020-2030) of achieving sustainability through rapid change in technology towards green-zone technology environment under the supervision of rational policy of decisions, then expands it experiences to UAE as a whole. Research limitations- implications- the study covers only studies and essays that related to scan UAE “Dubai” entrepreneurial projects for the last decade of 20th century and early decades of 21st century. Practical implications- the study confines to use the descriptive, analytical tools to study the related phenomena. Social implications- it specifics to review the Dubai Emirate as a society of study. Objectives of the Research Transferring the societies into digital ones to expand the career opportunities especially among adult talents. Distinguishing the economic digitalization & digital economy. Analyzing the main threats toward digital economy. Focusing on the role of digital economy especially for those graduated talents. Importance of the Research- as far as the study reviews, few studies in Arabian libraries are handling this dynamic topic; and still the meaning of facilitating the digitization to achieve sustainability is not clear enough, meanwhile, UAE considered as a “Spark” to most of Arabian countries. Thus, having their successful experience of entrepreneurial projects would be a “guide” for followers.

University Entrepreneurship at the Service of Rural Society. The RuralYU Project as an Action Learning Process

The article presents the RuralYU university entrepreneurship project, developed by the Youth University Design (YUDesign) Spontaneous Generation (GE) group of the School of Design Engineering (ETSID), at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). RuralYU aspires to reduce rural depopulation in collaboration with university students, who, by carrying out academic work, cover specific needs with the aim of strengthening rural development. The idea of ​​an inter-university collaboration programme with the rural world arose after having won the Vodafone Foundation’s Project Lab 2021 national contest within the framework of GLOBAL CHANGE with the proposal “RuralLife4Good. Accommodation grant programme for the empowerment of rural environments”. The winning proposal, which was implemented as a pilot project in Ràfol de Salem during the 2021-2022 academic year, values ​​the importance of the university at the service of society, in this case as an axis of urgent and necessary activation to avoid rural abandonment.