DO ENTREPRENEURS COME FROM VENUS OR MARS? IMPACT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES: GENDER AND FAMILY BUSINESS BACKGROUND

Clara Cardone-Riportella (), Maria Jose Casasola-Martinez () and Isabel Feito-Ruiz ()
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Clara Cardone-Riportella: Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, Pablo de Olavide University
Maria Jose Casasola-Martinez: Business Administration Faculty, Carlos III University
Isabel Feito-Ruiz: Department of Business Administration, University of Leon
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Clara Cardone Riportella

No 14.04, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting (former Department of Business Administration)

Abstract: Online MBA programs give postgraduate students the opportunity to develop skills and abilities to discover new business opportunities and to develop entrepreneurship intention (EI) (or entrepreneurial activity intention) and start-up behavior (SUB) (or entrepreneurship activity). This paper analyzes the impacts on entrepreneurial intention and on start-up behavior developed by the graduate students of an international online Master of Business Administration (OL-MBA) program launched by three public Spanish universities that offers two specializations (Management and Finance). The students of this program come from different countries, so the impact of cultural aspects is also examined in this study. The main results show that coming from an entrepreneurial family increases entrepreneurial intention, and this result is reinforced when the OL-MBA student is female. Additionally, female students are more likely to engage in start-up behavior if she comes from an entrepreneurial family. However, this start-up behavior is reduced when female students receive entrepreneurial education or if they have children (dependency context). Other personal characteristics, such as non-risk-adverse personality, can also motivate entrepreneurial intention and start-up behavior.

Keywords: Postgraduate studies impact; Entrepreneurship education; Entrepreneurship intention; Start-up behavior; Gender; Family implications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2014-07, Revised 2014-09
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