Importance of Environment for Young Students as a Factor for Starting Their Own Business
Gyrdymova, Daria; Kirianova, Daria (2017)
Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018061013328
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018061013328
Tiivistelmä
The main objective of this thesis is to explore key factors determining students’ decisions to start their own business or become an entrepreneur. The authors of this work tried to discover the correlation between environment, family influence and personal qualities and young students' intentions to run a business.
In autumn 2016 the Rural Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop was held among the first-year students of Kajaani University of Applied Sciences. It concerned modern ways of making business and young people attitudes towards it. Later a survey among the students took part in the RYE Workshop was conducted and its results became basic data for this research ( The questionnaire forms are attached In the Appendix 1).
The theoretical base of this thesis is grounded on the works of such authors as R. Cantillon, M. Casson, F. Knight and others. During the research Kruskal-Wallis test and Holm-Bonferroni methods of statistical analysis were used.
The research results it was determined that young people’s decisions about running their own business are made under the influence of not the one specific factor, but a number and combination of various ones.
In autumn 2016 the Rural Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop was held among the first-year students of Kajaani University of Applied Sciences. It concerned modern ways of making business and young people attitudes towards it. Later a survey among the students took part in the RYE Workshop was conducted and its results became basic data for this research ( The questionnaire forms are attached In the Appendix 1).
The theoretical base of this thesis is grounded on the works of such authors as R. Cantillon, M. Casson, F. Knight and others. During the research Kruskal-Wallis test and Holm-Bonferroni methods of statistical analysis were used.
The research results it was determined that young people’s decisions about running their own business are made under the influence of not the one specific factor, but a number and combination of various ones.