Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of interventions at
conventional business school practices on inculcation of
entrepreneurial propensity in students. These include, though not
limited to, entrepreneurial education, internship program, university
training and mentoring. These four mentioned dimensions have been
proposed as independent variables of this empirical enquiry. Available
literature on entrepreneurial intent of current learners, business school
factors and academic training poses ‘Propensity’ as behavioural
tendencies of students to take Self Employment roles in future and
going for start-ups. By proposing propensity as dependent variable the
study attempts to fill the gap in local literature which lacks any vivid
findings on the issue. An empirical investigation to know whether
contemporary national business school practices provide enough
support to learners to become future entrepreneurs is of interest to
theorists of planned behaviour. It can also make educational
administrators of management learning and those at the helm of
academic affairs revisit the existing frame of interventions. A
quantitative research plan appropriately suits the proposed enquiry.
The data was collected from the Kohat University of Science and
Technology Kohat (KUST) graduates and undergraduates studied
during the period of 2014-2015. The final sample consisted of 251
business management learners of university’s Institute of Management
Sciences. For data analysis regression model was used. Findings of the
study revealed that all independent variables have significant positive
effect on entrepreneurial propensity of students.
Muhammad Abid, Hafizullah, Muhammad Kaleem, Zeeshan Zaib Khattak, Sammar Abbas. (2017) Assessing the Impact of Business School Interventions on Learners’ Entrepreneurial Propensity , Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 3.
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