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Do entrepreneurial skills affect entrepreneurship attitudes in accounting education?

Sameh M. Reda Reyad (Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain)
Abdalmuttaleb Musleh Al-Sartawi (Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain)
Sherine Badawi (Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain)
Allam Hamdan (Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain)

Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning

ISSN: 2042-3896

Article publication date: 10 June 2019

Issue publication date: 20 September 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present the evidence of accounting undergraduates’ attitude toward entrepreneurship, in particular, whether entrepreneurial skills developed in accounting education engender cognition of skills and intentions of starting a business.

Design/methodology/approach

The study uses a χ2 test statistic used to evaluate a logistic regression to gauge the effect of delivering six entrepreneurial skills (risk taking, critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, autonomy and need for achievement) on entrepreneurship attitudes (cognition of skills and intentions). Data consist of questionnaire responses obtained from 668 undergraduates attending Egyptian and Bahraini universities.

Findings

The results reveal that accounting students perceive the following four entrepreneurial skills as a key for starting their own business: risk taking, critical thinking, problem solving and innovation. In addition, Egyptian students incline toward cognition, whereas Bahraini students head toward intentions.

Practical implications

Some changes to accounting curricula are proposed to enhance entrepreneurial intention.

Originality/value

This paper offers a new contribution as it focuses on the challenges and the considerations in the Arab World Universities.

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Acknowledgements

Retraction notice: The publishers of Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning wish to retract the article “Do entrepreneurial skills affect entrepreneurship attitudes in accounting education?” by S.M.R. Reyad, A. Musleh Al-Sartawi, S. Badawi, and A. Hamdan which appeared in Volume 9 Issue 4, 2019.

It has come to our attention that large portions of this article are taken, without attribution, from an earlier article by Sherine Badawi, Sameh Reyad, Reem Khamis, Allam Hamdan & Abdalmuttaleb Musleh Alsartawi, (2019), “Business education and entrepreneurial skills: Evidence from Arab universities”, Journal of Education for Business, Vol. 94 No. 5, pp. 314-323.

DOI: 10.1080/08832323.2018.1534799

The Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning submission guidelines make it clear that articles must be original and must not infringe any existing copyright.

The publishers of the journal sincerely apologize to the readers.

Citation

Reyad, S.M.R., Musleh Al-Sartawi, A., Badawi, S. and Hamdan, A. (2019), "Do entrepreneurial skills affect entrepreneurship attitudes in accounting education?", Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 739-757. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-01-2019-0013

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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