Are New Generation of Students of Healthcare Management Focused on Social Entrepreneurship? A Field Study

Journal Title: Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3

Abstract

This study aims to analyse students’ social entrepreneurship profiles and to compare them in their levels of social entrepreneurship with students having no bias towards social entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurship Level Scale” was employed to attain the purpose. The scale, which is used to describe students’ social entrepreneurship profiles, is composed of such dimensions as personal and social properties, innovativeness, and managerial qualities. A questionnaire was administered to the undergraduate students of healthcare management department of a state university in Turkey within the scope of the study. Independent samples t-test enabling researchers to make inter-group comparisons in the analysis of the data obtained and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) were used in the analysis of the data. It was found in consequence that the participants’ level of social entrepreneurship was 3.91 on average. Following the hypotheses made, it was found that there were no significant differences between students’ perceptions of social entrepreneurship according to age, gender, grade levels, number of brothers and sisters, mother’s occupation and father’s occupation.

Authors and Affiliations

Aykut Ekiyor, Yasemin Bolat

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  • EP ID EP338652
  • DOI 10.9734/ARJASS/2017/36301
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Aykut Ekiyor, Yasemin Bolat (2017). Are New Generation of Students of Healthcare Management Focused on Social Entrepreneurship? A Field Study. Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 4(3), 1-11. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-338652