Volume 31, Issue 2, December 2020, Pages 351–369
Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi1, Henry Akwetey Matey2, Frank Banaseka3, and Samuel Chris Quist4
1 Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Technology, University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Accra, Ghana
2 Assistant Lecturer, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
3 Lecturers, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
4 Lecturers, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
Original language: English
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work was aimed at investigating the impact of human capital-driven factors, personality-driven factors, and environmentally driven factors on the entrepreneurial potential of the students at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Ghana. With 188 respondents retrieved out of 249 questionnaires sent to Information Technology and Business Administration final year students of UPSA, Ghana, and using ordinal regression analysis, the following results were revealed: the “Entrepreneurial potential” of the students depends on their personality traits of “Need for achievement” and “Risk tolerance” and the human capital factor of “Entrepreneurship education and training”. “Entrepreneurship education and training” is the most significant predictor with a p-value of 0.004, followed by “need for achievement” with a p-value of 0.033, and then “risk tolerance” with a p-value of 0.036.
Author Keywords: Entrepreneurial, students, potential, personality, human capital, environmental, influences.
Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi1, Henry Akwetey Matey2, Frank Banaseka3, and Samuel Chris Quist4
1 Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Technology, University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Accra, Ghana
2 Assistant Lecturer, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
3 Lecturers, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
4 Lecturers, Information Technology Studies, UPSA, Ghana
Original language: English
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This work was aimed at investigating the impact of human capital-driven factors, personality-driven factors, and environmentally driven factors on the entrepreneurial potential of the students at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Ghana. With 188 respondents retrieved out of 249 questionnaires sent to Information Technology and Business Administration final year students of UPSA, Ghana, and using ordinal regression analysis, the following results were revealed: the “Entrepreneurial potential” of the students depends on their personality traits of “Need for achievement” and “Risk tolerance” and the human capital factor of “Entrepreneurship education and training”. “Entrepreneurship education and training” is the most significant predictor with a p-value of 0.004, followed by “need for achievement” with a p-value of 0.033, and then “risk tolerance” with a p-value of 0.036.
Author Keywords: Entrepreneurial, students, potential, personality, human capital, environmental, influences.
How to Cite this Article
Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi, Henry Akwetey Matey, Frank Banaseka, and Samuel Chris Quist, “Impact of personality, human capital, and environmental influences on students’ entrepreneurial potential: The case of I. T. Management and Business Administration final year students of UPSA, Ghana,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 351–369, December 2020.
