期刊名称：International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
印刷版ISSN：2349-6711
电子版ISSN：2349-6959
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：127-137
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出版社：Scholar Publications
摘要：Entrepreneurial alertness has the potential to add substantially to our understanding of how new opportunities are identified and pursued. Empirical research identified significant association between entrepreneurial alertness and starting new firms. Lack of opportunity identification skill is considered as major hurdle for those who intend to start their new venture in Pakistan. Considering the role of entrepreneurial alertness in identifying the opportunity and significantly positive association with intent to start new firms. This study analyses the different factor which affect the entrepreneurial alertness of business students in Pakistan. The data was collected from the 499 final year business school students of nine universities from Sindh, Pakistan using cross-sectional survey. The results of this study revealed that information accumulation, selection and transformation ability have positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial alertness. These findings signify that development of information accumulation, transformation and evaluation ability is vital for entrepreneurial alertness ability for identifying the entrepreneurial opportunities among the students. The findings have implication for the students who want to choose entrepreneurship as a career, educators who design and teach entrepreneurship course, and policy makers for developing policy guidelines on entrepreneurship.
