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The Role of Entrepreneurial Knowledge as a Competence in Shaping Iranian Students' Career Intentions to Start a New Digital Business
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Yaghoubi Farani, Ahmad; Karimi, Saeid; Motaghed, Mahsa – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: This purpose of this paper, drawing on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), is to develop an integrated model of entrepreneurial career intentions incorporating the role of motivational factors along with entrepreneurial knowledge. Specifically, this study proposes the existence of a relationship between entrepreneurial knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Behavior Theories, Career Choice
Designing a Model for Entrepreneurial Intentions of Agricultural Students
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Najafabadi, Maryam Omidi; Zamani, Maryam; Mirdamadi, Mehdi – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors used Ajzen's theory of planned behavior and Shapero's entrepreneurial event model as well as entrepreneurial cognition theory to identify the relationship among entrepreneurial skills, self-efficacy, attitudes toward entrepreneurship, psychological traits, social norms, perceived desirability, social support, and entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Models, Entrepreneurship, Agricultural Education, Intention
Entrepreneurial Intentions of Agricultural Students: Levels and Determinants
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Pouratashi, Mahtab – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: This paper examined levels and determinants of entrepreneurial intentions amongst agricultural students. Methodology: The statistical population comprised students in colleges of agriculture at University of Tehran. By use of a random sampling method, a sample of 120 students participated in the study. The instrument for data collection…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, Student Interests, Career Choice
Apology Strategies of Iranian Undergraduate Students
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Tehrani, Mohammad Dadkhah; Rezaei, Omid; Dezhara, Salman; Kafrani, Reza Soltani – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the different primary and secondary strategies the Iranian EFL students use in different situations and the effect of gender on this. A questionnaire was developed based on Sugimoto's (1995) to compare the apology strategies used by male and female students, only gender was examined as a variable. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Gender Differences
Instrumental and Integrative Orientations: Predictors of Willingness to Communicate in the Iranian EFL Context
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Ghanbarpour, Mahsa – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
Given that promoting learners' communicative competence in a second language (L2) is one of the primary foci of communicative language teaching approaches, the late 1980s saw an expansion in research into willingness to communicate (WTC), which is deemed to affect individuals' predisposition towards the initiation of L2 communication. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Social Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: Insights from a Developing Country
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Salamzadeh, Aidin; Azimi, Mohammad Ali; Kirby, David A – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this research is to investigate awareness, intentions/support, and the contextual elements among higher education students in the University of Tehran (UT) in order to find the gap(s) in social entrepreneurship education in Iran. The authors used Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour as the theoretical framework. The research…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations