Students and Starting of Businesses

DOI

10.2991/emt-19.2019.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

entrepreneurship, students, global market

Abstract

Business is a complex phenomenon. Global business is easier than ever before. The lands are getting closer together. This paper looks at the issue of motivating and factors individuals entering into the global market environment that is important in studying business creation. The author said that the motivation of business decisions should be identified to understand the business process and activity. The aim of the article is to reveal factors determining the motivation of students' entrepreneurial activity and to identify policies that can increase the level of entrepreneurial activity of students. Attention is focused on students from technical universities in Slovakia who are expected to enter the business environment. The literature review of the manuscript references the major streams of authors research in a suitable way. Obtained data were further processed using the statistical package of MS Excel and then MS WinStat. By processing of empirical data by the methods of descriptive statistics - 2 χ, the evaluation data was obtained. The study has provided in sight to understand the factors which affect the young adults' entrepreneurial motivation. The results confirm that students consider various complex configurations of mixed factors (both external and internal ones) before starting their own business activities. The author has included most important factors of motivating in the following categories: financial, recognition, independence / autonomy and material safety of the family. The results are an important output for the preparation of students for their future careers. Business courses taught at university have help motivate students who prefer to choose a profession as an entrepreneur compared to those who prefer paid employment.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Daniela Hrehová
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Students and Starting of Businesses
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Management and Technology in Enterprises 2019 (EMT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 143
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5428
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