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Received: 2021-11-15  |  Accepted: 2022-01-10  |  Published: 2022-03-30

Title

Entrepreneurial attitude of students - comparative study between China and Poland


Abstract

One of the crucial topics in the field of entrepreneurship is analysis of having a specific entrepreneurial mindset. In this paper Authors investigate perception of chosen characteristics of entrepreneurial person in China and Poland. Consequently, the primary aim of this paper is to discover differences and similarities of view regarding the characteristics of entrepreneurial person in China and Poland. The secondary aim is to examine the intensions to start a company and verify whether the students in analysed countries regard themselves as entrepreneurial persons. The sample size of described pilot study is 226, whereas 124 questionnaires were accepted in Poland and 102 in China. Questionnaire based survey was conducted from June till September 2016. To quantize the results of the questionnaire, the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) model proposed by Saaty was used. As top three features that characterise an entrepreneurial person students from both analysed countries indicated readiness to bear responsibility; diligence, enthusiasm and conscientiousness in action and resourcefulness and organising. This study has an exploratory character but results clearly show that students from China less often characterize themselves as persons having an entrepreneurial attitude or intentions.


Keywords

entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial intention, China, Poland


JEL classifications

L26 , A23 , J24


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/940


DOI


Pages

118-133


Funding

The project is financed within the framework of the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education under the name “Regional Excellence Initiative” in the years 2019 – 2022; project number 001/RID/2018/19; the amount of financing PLN 10,684,000.00. This research was also supported by the soft science project of Zhejiang Province China, Project Number: 2021C35113.

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Authors

Misiak-Kwit, Sandra
University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland http://www.usz.edu.pl
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Zhang, Yunhua
Ningbo University, Ningbo, China https://www.china-admissions.com/ningbo-university/
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

9


Number

3


Issue date

March 2022


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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