Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis

Entrepreneurs are vital economic actors that produce economic gains by combining the factors of production, hence creating added value and employment opportunities. Therefore, entrepreneurship is a fundamental tool for economic growth and development. The critical nature of the concepts of entrepren...

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Main Author: Sema Ulutürk Akman
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Language:English
Published: Istanbul University Press 2021-06-01
Series:İstanbul İktisat Dergisi
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Online Access:https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/E67CD9D6E04C4DBE879D59B38E337E68
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description Entrepreneurs are vital economic actors that produce economic gains by combining the factors of production, hence creating added value and employment opportunities. Therefore, entrepreneurship is a fundamental tool for economic growth and development. The critical nature of the concepts of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to the economy and rising interest in this subject has resulted in a proliferation ofstudies on the factors affecting entrepreneurship. It is assumed that entrepreneurship is affected by demographic characteristics and family features as well as individuals’ personality traits. The purpose of this study is to determine the association between the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate students of the University of Istanbul Faculty of Economics and traits and demographic characteristics of students’ families. Within the scope of the study, 883 students were interviewed regarding the characteristics of their families and entrepreneurship intentions. The data were analyzed using the multiway frequency analysis method and indicated that gender, parents’ tendencies toward entrepreneurship, family income level, and the number of siblings prior to or following the student’s birth to be effective indicators of entrepreneurship tendencies. Accordingly, the findings imply that male students prefer starting their own business more than female students, and entrepreneurial tendencies are higher in students whose parents are entrepreneurs. In addition, students from highincome families indicated stronger entrepreneurship intentions and students who are the first or second children in a family signaled more entrepreneurial intentions.
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spelling doaj-art-03209c842db541749bee613dfb99c13a2025-08-20T01:49:01ZengIstanbul University Pressİstanbul İktisat Dergisi2602-39542021-06-0171110313110.26650/ISTJECON2021-915975123456Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency AnalysisSema Ulutürk Akman0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4075-8313İstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeEntrepreneurs are vital economic actors that produce economic gains by combining the factors of production, hence creating added value and employment opportunities. Therefore, entrepreneurship is a fundamental tool for economic growth and development. The critical nature of the concepts of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to the economy and rising interest in this subject has resulted in a proliferation ofstudies on the factors affecting entrepreneurship. It is assumed that entrepreneurship is affected by demographic characteristics and family features as well as individuals’ personality traits. The purpose of this study is to determine the association between the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate students of the University of Istanbul Faculty of Economics and traits and demographic characteristics of students’ families. Within the scope of the study, 883 students were interviewed regarding the characteristics of their families and entrepreneurship intentions. The data were analyzed using the multiway frequency analysis method and indicated that gender, parents’ tendencies toward entrepreneurship, family income level, and the number of siblings prior to or following the student’s birth to be effective indicators of entrepreneurship tendencies. Accordingly, the findings imply that male students prefer starting their own business more than female students, and entrepreneurial tendencies are higher in students whose parents are entrepreneurs. In addition, students from highincome families indicated stronger entrepreneurship intentions and students who are the first or second children in a family signaled more entrepreneurial intentions.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/E67CD9D6E04C4DBE879D59B38E337E68entrepreneurshipmultiway frequency analysisloglinear models
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Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
İstanbul İktisat Dergisi
entrepreneurship
multiway frequency analysis
loglinear models
title Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
title_full Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
title_fullStr Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
title_short Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis
title_sort determining the effects of students family characteristics on entrepreneurship tendency by multiway frequency analysis
topic entrepreneurship
multiway frequency analysis
loglinear models
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