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  • 标题:Gender and Youth Entrepreneurial Potential: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
  • 作者:Rachid Zeffane
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Business and Management
  • 印刷版ISSN:1833-3850
  • 电子版ISSN:1833-8119
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:60
  • DOI:10.5539/ijbm.v8n1p60
  • 出版社:Canadian Center of Science and Education
  • 摘要:The study of entrepreneurship and its linkages to personal traits has been the subject of much interest and
    research debate in recent years. In particular, much research has been devoted to the examination of youth
    entrepreneurial potentials and how they might be enhanced. In all this, gender has been a contentious issue, for
    opinions on whether or not the potential to become an entrepreneur is gender-driven have been rather mixed and
    certainly not one-sided. This paper is an attempt to contribute to this debate by adding further empirical
    evidence from the middle-east/gulf region. It draws on a sample of 503 students enrolled in business courses at a
    University in the United Arab Emirates. Statistical analysis strongly revealed that there were no differences on
    the overall entrepreneurial potentials between males and females. However, the only item of entrepreneurial
    potential on which the two groups differed was their predisposition to risk taking. Consistent with previous
    research, females were less disposed to taking risk. Overall, our findings on entrepreneurial potentials defeat the
    commonly held stereotypical assumptions that females in middle-east countries may be less averse to
    entrepreneurial activities than males. Implications for future and research and practice are discussed.
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