Female Undergraduateas Studentsa Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Entrepreneurship Development (Comparison Public and Private Universities in Ethiopia)

Emnet Negash; Chalichissa Amentie

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Emnet Negash
Chalichissa Amentie

Keywords:

female entrepreneurship, undergraduate students, attitude, ethiopian public and private universities

Abstract

Female Entrepreneurship is considered an important tool for female empowerment and emancipation. The main objective of this study is to investigate female undergraduate students' attitudes toward and perceptions of entrepreneurship (Comparison Ethiopian Public and Private Universities). Entrepreneurship has become a crucial area to study and understandespecially with respect to, attitudes toward entrepreneur, motivations, constraints and consequences. Female undergraduates students are chosen for the current study is because they are at a period in their career development where they are considering different career routes and are therefore, a potential source of future female entrepreneurs

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Female Undergraduateas Studentsa Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Entrepreneurship Development (Comparison Public and Private Universities in Ethiopia). (2014). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 14(44), 29-34. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/

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Author Biography

Emnet Negash

Emnet Negash is an academic and researcher affiliated with Jimma University in Ethiopia. Their work primarily focuses on entrepreneurship, female undergraduate students, and micro and small enterprises in the Ethiopian context. With a series of five published studies, they have examined attitudes toward entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial characteristics, and self-employment perceptions among university students, including comparative analyses between public and private institutions. Emnet Negash holds an MBA and serves as an Assistant Professor at Jimma University, and has also contributed as a reviewer for the Global Journal of Management and Business Research (GJMBR).

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