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Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 2 pp 343–354Cite as

University Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes About Entrepreneurship and Their Intentions to Startup Businesses: Literature Review

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The aim of this paper is to review the available literature on university students’ perception towards entrepreneurial activity. This will help develop a framework for a project seeking to recommend solid entrepreneurial policies towards youth. The paper specifically aims to find out what are the variables influencing the students’ perception and how to measure their perceptions towards entrepreneurship and what will be the effect of perceptions on attitudes and intentions to start their own businesses. There is a growing body of literature arguing that perception plays a very relevant role in the decision to start a new business. The importance of personal traits in understanding this personal decision has been highlighted by many researchers. There are many theories attempt to explain the origin of entrepreneurship and its contributions over time. They attempt to answer the question of why some people or even some communities more entrepreneurial than others. This review will highlight major variables and theories considered in the available literature. As a result perception of the available opportunities; barriers; motives, entrepreneurial exposure, family support and culture were identified and formulate the conceptual framework for the potential project.

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    Adil Hassan Bakheet Khalid

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  2. MUFG Union Bank, San Francisco, California, USA

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  3. Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul, Turkey

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  4. Eurasia Business & Economic Society, Fatih Istanbul, Turkey

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Khalid, A.H.B. (2016). University Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes About Entrepreneurship and Their Intentions to Startup Businesses: Literature Review. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Can, U. (eds) Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 2. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 2/2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22593-7_25

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