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The importance of creativity and self-efficacy in enterprise education

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  • Lyons Roisin

    (Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick)

  • Bhaird Ciarán Mac an

    (Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University)

  • McConalogue Eoghan

    (Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University)

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Enterprise education is lauded as a mechanism for transferring entrepreneurial skills, mindsets, and tendencies to students. We examine the changing levels of entrepreneurial tendencies of a cohort of students of enterprise education, focusing on entrepreneurial selfefficacy and entrepreneurial intentions. A sample group of undergraduate business students (n=177) were surveyed at the outset and conclusion of a year-long enterprise education module. Results highlight a lower pre-module level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy for female students and a significant increase in their self-efficacy levels after the module. We find entrepreneurial self-efficacy (established before the module and developed during) predicts entrepreneurial intentions and module satisfaction. Creativity training and individual creativity positively affect entrepreneurial intentions and module satisfaction, highlighting the importance of embedding creativity in such a module. These findings are useful to those developing future enterprise curricula.

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  • Lyons Roisin & Bhaird Ciarán Mac an & McConalogue Eoghan, 2024. "The importance of creativity and self-efficacy in enterprise education," The Irish Journal of Management, Sciendo, vol. 43(2), pages 107-119.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:irjman:v:43:y:2024:i:2:p:107-119:n:1004
    DOI: 10.2478/ijm-2024-0012
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