Statehood as a Determinant of Entrepreneurial Intentions of High School Youth (Case Study of Szczecin International School, Poland)

Authors

  • Barbara Osóch Uniwersytet Szczeciński Wydział Nauk o Ziemi Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej
  • Paweł Czapliński Uniwersytet Szczeciński Wydział Nauk o Ziemi Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.151.5

Keywords:

entrepreneurial intentions, high school youth, statehood

Abstract

It has been assumed that social norms and cultural codes binding in different societies do not have to determine the student’s personality traits and the way of thinking regardless of the place where they live. Due to the above-mentioned issues the aim of the study was to analyse the entrepreneurial intentions of high school youth with different citizenship. The main measurement tool was a survey addressed to students of the high school in the School Complex of Szczecin International School and a Technical School of Construction named after Kazimierz Wielki, which was a comparative test. The questionnaire was conducted in the form of a cross-sectional study, from April to May 2018. As results from the conducted research, there are differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurial intentions of young Poles and foreigners. A strong financial stimulus provokes Polish students to a faster, more determined, although sometimes superficially made, declaration of readiness for specific entrepreneurial behaviours. In the case of foreign students, this stimulus is definitely less important, and the entrepreneurial intentions reported seem to be more thought-out.

Author Biographies

Barbara Osóch, Uniwersytet Szczeciński Wydział Nauk o Ziemi Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej

Barbara Osóch, PhD, is a long-term employee of the Social Geography and Spatial Organization Unit of the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management University of Szczecin. She is a long-term employee of the Social Geography and Spatial Organization Unit of the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management University of Szczecin. At the University she has graduated from Geographic and received a PhD in Earth Sciences. Extensive interests in the field of social geography, sociology, water tourism and architecture have been presented in numerous publications. The main area of research interest is the development of geographical space for the purposes of water tourism, recreational sailing and social structure of participants in various forms of tourist activity.

Paweł Czapliński, Uniwersytet Szczeciński Wydział Nauk o Ziemi Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej

Paweł Czapliński, Professor of Earth Sciences (economic geography). In 1996–2014 assistant and associate professor in the Institute of Geography and Regional Studies, Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk. Since 2014 associate professor in the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Szczecin. Member of the editorial board of journals: Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, Entrepreneurship – Education and Scientific Journal of the Kherson State University – Geography. Author of more than seventy publications and monographs with subjects of transformation of spatial structures of industry in Northern Poland, performance and prospects of the development of the fish processing industry in Poland, entrepreneurship of young people and the elderly and some aspects of the management and administration of local government.

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2019-06-14

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Osóch, B., & Czapliński, P. (2019). Statehood as a Determinant of Entrepreneurial Intentions of High School Youth (Case Study of Szczecin International School, Poland). Entrepreneurship – Education, 15(1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.151.5

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019): The role of entrepreneurship in education and socio-economic development of local systems

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