The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study
The goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relatonal and cognitve social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland. The research involved a group of 374 undergraduate business students from a Polish university as partcipants. Partcipants completed a sur...
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| description | The goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relatonal and cognitve social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland. The research involved a group of 374 undergraduate business students from a Polish university as partcipants. Partcipants completed a survey on entrepreneurial cognitons. It was found that partcipants assess the level of an entrepreneur’s social capital as relatvely low. Due to the fact that social capital, and its different dimensions, serve different purposes in the process of venture creaton, the result obtained can be considered alarming. Its practcal implicatons are related to the necessity to review and design actvites facilitatng the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Poland. The value and the originality of the paper lie in the approach that allowed us to investgate which dimensions of an entrepreneur’s social capital are seen as partcularly weak by people for whom launching a new business is a viable opton in the near future. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5e6e7aed3a014a3ebdb605fa36c894072025-02-03T11:20:10ZengCognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and ScienceJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation2299-73262018-01-0114110912210.7341/20181416The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory StudyPaweł Ziemiański0 Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics The goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relatonal and cognitve social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland. The research involved a group of 374 undergraduate business students from a Polish university as partcipants. Partcipants completed a survey on entrepreneurial cognitons. It was found that partcipants assess the level of an entrepreneur’s social capital as relatvely low. Due to the fact that social capital, and its different dimensions, serve different purposes in the process of venture creaton, the result obtained can be considered alarming. Its practcal implicatons are related to the necessity to review and design actvites facilitatng the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Poland. The value and the originality of the paper lie in the approach that allowed us to investgate which dimensions of an entrepreneur’s social capital are seen as partcularly weak by people for whom launching a new business is a viable opton in the near future. http://jemi.edu.pl/uploadedFiles/file/all-issues/vol14/issue1/JEMI_Vol14_Issue1_2018_Article6.pdf social capitalentrepreneur’s social capitalentrepreneurshipnascent entrepreneurs |
| spellingShingle | Paweł Ziemiański The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation social capital entrepreneur’s social capital entrepreneurship nascent entrepreneurs |
| title | The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study |
| title_full | The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study |
| title_fullStr | The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study |
| title_short | The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study |
| title_sort | perception of an entrepreneur s structural relational and cognitive social capital among young people in poland an exploratory study |
| topic | social capital entrepreneur’s social capital entrepreneurship nascent entrepreneurs |
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