Między komfortem a wyzwaniem: postawy i zachowania przedsiębiorcze studentów w Polsce i na Ukrainie

Teresa Piecuch; Katarzyna Chudy-Laskowska; Marzena Hajduk-Stelmachowicz; Elżbieta Szczygieł

doi:10.56583/br.2234

Published : 2023-12-31

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023)

Between Comfort and Challenge: Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Behaviors of Students from Poland and Ukraine on the Example of Students of Economics and Management from Rzeszów and Lviv

Teresa Piecuch

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2656-662X

Katarzyna Chudy-Laskowska

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7797-2858

Marzena Hajduk-Stelmachowicz

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4945-7207

Elżbieta Szczygieł

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-1071

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56583/br.2234

Abstract

Running your own business involves a certain amount of effort. Young people studying economics and management are taught to do so. However, only some of them take this step. Working in-house is associated with risk and challenge. What makes them take them and step out of their comfort zone? Are there certain determining factors in this respect? The objective of the article is to identify the characteristics of entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors of students in Poland and Ukraine, as well as to analyze the potential differences in this field. The article consists of a literature review and an analysis of the own research, conducted among students from Poland and Ukraine (N = 293). The study concerns, among other things, the positive and negative aspects of young people setting up and running their own business and their motivations. To verify the potential differences between surveyed groups the statistical analysis was used. The authors used descriptive statistics and the chi-square test of independence (? = 0.05, p < ?). The conducted research allowed for the verification of five hypotheses and showed the existence of statistically significant differences between young people in the countries analyzed in terms of: starting their own business, self-assessment of their entrepreneurial abilities, and taking a job while studying. Profit is not the most significant factor which could affect the decision to start a business. Similarly, conducting business by the nearest family is not an important factor for starting their own business by students.

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entrepreneurship, Poland, young people, Ukraine, statistical analysis

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Piecuch, T., Chudy-Laskowska, K., Hajduk-Stelmachowicz, M., & Szczygieł, E. (2023). Between Comfort and Challenge: Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Behaviors of Students from Poland and Ukraine on the Example of Students of Economics and Management from Rzeszów and Lviv. Regional Barometer. Analyses & Prognoses, 19(2), 111–124. https://doi.org/10.56583/br.2234

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