Central European Business Review 2017, 6(2):54-63 | DOI: 10.18267/j.cebr.180

Drivers of Student Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Four Countries: Guesss Evidence

Marian Holienka1, Peter Gál2, Zuzana Kovačičová3
1 Mgr. Marian Holienka, PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Odbojarov 10, P.O. Box 95, 820 05, Bratislava, Slovakia, marian.holienka@fm.uniba.sk
2 Mgr. Peter Gál, PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Odbojarov 10, P.O. Box 95, 820 05, Bratislava, Slovakia, peter.gal@fm.uniba.sk
3 RNDr. Zuzana Kovačičová, PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Department of Information Systems, Odbojarov 10, P.O. Box 95, 820 05, Bratislava, Slovakia, zuzana.kovacicova@fm.uniba.sk

The aim of our paper is to find out what drives student entrepreneurs in Visegrad (V4) countries (i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) in their business activities. Our analysis is built on 2016 data from GUESSS project - an extensive academic study on student entrepreneurship, and our main sample comprises of 15,971 V4 university students. Potential drivers from individual human and social capital characteristics, perceived institutional support, and demographic attributes are examined, using the logistic regression method. Applying a unique perspective and distinguishing between different types of student entrepreneurs, we focus especially on promisingly sustainable student entrepreneurs with already active businesses, who plan to continue them after completing their studies. According to our results, gender (being a male), increasing age together with dropping number of years to finish studies, intensity of entrepreneurship education, studying in a business-related field, and having entrepreneurial parents significantly drive student entrepreneurship inclinations during their university studies.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; university students; drivers; GUESSS
JEL classification: L26

Received: March 28, 2017; Revised: April 28, 2017; Published: June 30, 2017  Show citation

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Holienka, M., Gál, P., & Kovačičová, Z. (2017). Drivers of Student Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Four Countries: Guesss Evidence. Central European Business Review, 6(2), 54-63. doi: 10.18267/j.cebr.180
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