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The Significance of Social Welfare Attitudes in Young People’s Entrepreneurial Intentions
The Significance of Social Welfare Attitudes in Young People’s Entrepreneurial Intentions

Author(s): Timo Toikko, Agnieszka Pawlak, Teemu Rantanen
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Keywords: entrepreneurial intention; Theory of Planned Behaviour; social attitudes; social welfare

Summary/Abstract: The present study analyses young people’s entrepreneurial intentions in Finland and Poland. Previous surveys have shown that the desire to become an entrepreneur is stronger in between Polish people than in between Finnish people. By exploring the social psychological factors that explain young people’s entrepreneurial intentions, the study particularly sought to determine whether the differences in entrepreneurial intention can be explained by social welfare attitudes. Survey respondents were 725 Finnish and 887 Polish students.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 43-60
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English