TITLE:
Teachers’ Entrepreneurship: Intentions and Actions
AUTHORS:
Paraskevi Charoula Anagnou, Aikaterini Vasiou
KEYWORDS:
Assertiveness, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Intentions, Gender Differences, Perceived Masculinity, Risk-Taking, Status-Seeking, Theory of Planned Behaviour
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.14 No.13,
December
27,
2023
ABSTRACT: This study examines teachers’ entrepreneurial characteristics, either in
terms of actions and efforts they have already carried out, or in terms of
intentions and opinions they have regarding
undertaking business initiatives. The research purpose is to examine
whether certain stereotypical gender characteristics are connected with
entrepreneurial intentions. A mixed method of data collection was applied to conduct the research. Specifically, 75 teachers
(in-ser- vice, pre-service and graduates of pedagogic departments) filled out a
questionnaire containing a combination of items from the Entrepreneurial Intentions Questionnaire, International Personality
Item Pool, Human Values Scale, status-seeking,
perceived masculinity and the Organizational Collectivism Scale.
Furthermore, 8 teachers participated in semi-structured interviews. Theory of
Planned Behaviour was used as a broad guideline for the interview scheme, suggesting that the intention to form a specific
behaviour is influenced by three main factors: subjective norm,
perceived behavioural control, and attitude towards the behaviour. The data
analysis consists of descriptive statistics of the sample and the measured constructs and a calculation of the participant’s intentions to create a new firm, the t-test
analysis, the correlational analysis
and a linear regression analysis. The results showed a strong interest
among teachers in entrepreneurship, with several of those surveyed having tried
their hand at it. However, due to the country’s legal framework, government
employment is still the only way of employment for most of them. Concluding it
can be stated that status-seeking and risk-taking do have an influence on an
individual’s decision to realize entrepreneurial intentions.