Promoting entrepreneurship – changing attitudes or behaviour?
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
ISSN: 1462-6004
Article publication date: 1 December 2003
Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyse the Danish policies used to promote entrepreneurship during the last 30 years. The initiatives to promote entrepreneurship have been implemented as part of the Danish industrial policy. The initiatives are presented and ordered according to a model of planned social change, examining whether they are trying to create a change in attitudes or in behaviour or in both? This analysis has implications beyond the Danish case, as general reflections on entrepreneurship policy are induced from the analysis. It is argued that policy makers should reflect whether the target groups towards which policy initiatives are directed: first, have a positive or negative attitude towards entrepreneurship, and second, are engaged or not engaged in entrepreneurial action.
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Citation
Dreisler, P., Blenker, P. and Nielsen, K. (2003), "Promoting entrepreneurship – changing attitudes or behaviour?", Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000310504693
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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