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Entrepreneurial Tendencies of Tanzanian University Graduates: Evidence from University of Dar-es-Salaam

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dc.contributor.author Katundu, Mangasini A.
dc.contributor.author Gabagambi, Damian M.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-08-27T12:07:04Z
dc.date.available 2024-08-27T12:07:04Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Katundu M. A. & Gabagambi D. M. (2014) Entrepreneurial Tendencies of Tanzanian University Graduates: Evidence from University of Dar-es-Salaam. European academic research Vol. I, (12) en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2286-4822
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1405
dc.description A full text article from the collection of Community and Rural Development en_US
dc.description.abstract Entrepreneurship plays a key role in social-economic development of developing countries such as Tanzania where both poverty and unemployment are high. The relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship is double-faceted. On the one hand, the literature has established that unemployment stimulates entrepreneurial activity, which has been termed as a “refugee effect”. On the other hand, literature has recognized that higher levels of entrepreneurship reduce unemployment; this has been termed as the “Schumpeter effect”. This paper is built within the Schumpeterian effect-theory, which emphasizes that, entrepreneurship reduces unemployment. In order for graduates to become entrepreneurs, positive attitude or tendency towards entrepreneurship is required. Persons with higher entrepreneurial tendencies are said to have positive inclination towards entrepreneurship. It is in this viewpoint that the government of Tanzania has accentuated entrepreneurship training programmes within universities countrywide, in order to empower graduates and facilitate their entry into business; so as to gradually transform them into job creators. Despite government initiatives, very few graduates have managed to start their own businesses. This paper presents findings from a survey conducted to measure among other things, entrepreneurial tendencies of University graduates. It tries to establish whether or not the entrepreneurship training programmes had increased entrepreneurial tendencies of graduates. The General Enterprising Tendencies Test and the independent-samples t-test were applied. The sample size comprised 308 graduates who were clustered into two clusters namely those who studied entrepreneurship (119) and those who did not study entrepreneurship (189). The findings indicate that graduates who had studied at least one entrepreneurship course during their undergraduate studies had higher entrepreneurial propensity and had clear aspirations of becoming entrepreneurs in future than those who studied normal degree programmes. This paper recommends that Universities and other higher learning institutions countrywide should make entrepreneurship training compulsory to all students. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher European academic research en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 1;12
dc.subject GET test en_US
dc.subject Entrepreneurship en_US
dc.subject Education en_US
dc.subject Entrepreneurial tendencies en_US
dc.subject Independent-samples t-test en_US
dc.subject University en_US
dc.subject Graduates en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.title Entrepreneurial Tendencies of Tanzanian University Graduates: Evidence from University of Dar-es-Salaam en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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