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Metaphors of Entrepreneurship among Polish Students: Preliminary Research Findings

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Title Metaphors of Entrepreneurship among Polish Students: Preliminary Research Findings
 
Creator Chmielecki, Michał
SuÅ‚kowski, Åukasz
 
Subject Management
Metaphors of entrepreneurship, entreprenurship, metaphors, research, Poland
M12
 
Description Objective: In Poland entrepreneurship is often viewed as an extremely risky process and entrepreneurs are often portrayed in a negative light. The research goals  of our exploratory study is to identify  the entreprenurship metaphors among Polish management students.   Research Design & Methods: Authors decided to run both qualitative and quantitative research.  In the first part we addressed 124 management students on three levels BA, MA and MBA.  The respondents were asked to give their metaphorical expressions on paper. The next step was to prepare a questionnaire based on 7 point Likert scale. This questionnaire was run among  BA management student group composed of 82 studentsFindings: Our results suggest that there are several major entrepreneurial narratives evident among all three groups including creativity and innovation, competition, war, journey, risk, adventure and exploitation.  Implications & Recommendations: The empirical findings serve as a starting point for further in-depth research in this area. It is recommended that in order to gain a complete picture of the issues underlying the results, both qualitative and quantitative research on a bigger sample should be undertaken.Contribution & Value Added: The originality of this work lies in studying some aspects of entrepreneurship metaphors among non-entrepreneurs in Poland.  With regards to the research limitation, it must be highlighted that it was a pilot study and the results cannot be generalized.
 
Publisher Cracow University of Economics
 
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Date 2016-12-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

 
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Identifier //eber.uek.krakow.pl/index.php/eber/article/view/145
10.15678/EBER.2016.040409
 
Source Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review; Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Entrepreneurship in the Global Context; 141-151
2353-8821
2353-883X
 
Language eng
 
Relation //eber.uek.krakow.pl/index.php/eber/article/view/145/pdf_1
 
Coverage Poland

Students
 
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