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In emerging nations like Ghana, unemployment has grown to be a serious worry for graduates. According to this perspective, the majority of graduates are recommended to start their own businesses rather than wait for positions from the government. This paper aims to examine the entrepreneurial intentions among University students, using variables such as Motivation, Family Background, Entrepreneurship Education and External Factors. This is a cross-sectional study where the results were based on the outcomes of a survey among the University of Cape Coast, school of Business students (n=130). Inferential statistical procedures such as the Pearson Product-Moment correlation test, Multiple Regression and Stepwise Regression Analysis were used to assess the study's specific aims and tested the four main hypotheses. The results indicated that all variables but Family Background positively influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions and that Motivation is statistically significant in analyzing the factors that significantly affect the students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Hence, more emphasis should be based on motivating the students both within and outside to enable them develop entrepreneurial mindsets. The study suggests that policymakers should focus on encouraging student entrepreneurship as it will be a proper management to deal with the severe unemployment issue in emerging countries, especially Ghana., {"references":["Adu, I. N., Boakye, K. O., Suleman, A.-R., & Bingab, B. B. (2020). Exploring the factors that mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intentions among undergraduate students in Ghana. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 14(2), 215–228. https://doi.org/10.1108/apjie-07-2019-0052","Ambad, S. N. A., & Damit, D. H. 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Factors affecting business students’ choice of career in accounting and factors affecting business students’ inability to choose a career in accounting remains unclear. We used SPSS to analyze data collected from four randomly selected senior high schools in the central region of Ghana through questionnaires. This paper investigated the influences of job opportunities, personal interest, family influence, social status, peer influence, salary expectation, weakness in mathematics, time it takes to become an accountant, and stress involved in the accounting career. The paper then revealed the effects of these influencing factors. Though other factors were found to have substantial effects, the results clearly shows that high salary expectation and job opportunities are the most influential factors that influences a business student’s choice to choose or not to choose a career in accounting. These results could be used as a reference for educational reforms and career counselling.

COVID-19 global health crisis has radically changed our lives in almost all aspects. The social and economic norms have shifted so dramatically that some authors call this ‘New normal’ time the beginning of new human era. Tertiary education was no exception to this and had experienced profound changes due to the closures, restrictions on mass gathering and social distancing. For students used to predominantly classical way of learning and progressing through enrolled study programme, shifting almost entirely on distance learning has raised number of challenges. This is especially present on business study programmes and associated individual courses, due to their strong practical orientation and emphasis on close student collaboration and teamwork in forms of classroom assignments and student projects. In order to fulfil course requirements, students need to collaborate and function as a team, experience leadership behaviours from their team leader, and ultimately achieve desired level of effectiveness, all in virtual conditions of distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine demonstrated leadership behaviours and leadership competencies by leaders in student virtual teams, while working on student projects. In this sense, virtual leadership behaviours and competencies essential for student virtual team effectiveness will be identified. In order to achieve this aim, empirical research was conducted in the beginning of 2021. on the sample of 13 student virtual teams, from two business study programmes, working specific amount of time on preparing and executing student projects. Main findings of empirical research are presented in the paper in the form of descriptive and bivariate statistical analysis.

Purpose – This paper brings new material to the understanding of interlinkages between motivation, learning and performance in academic contexts. By investigating these interlinkages in a new context – students of business and management at a Swedish university college – it seeks to answer the following research questions: How do students’ degree and type of motivation relate to their learning strategies?; how do students’ degree and type of motivation and learning strategies relate to their academic success?; and how do student characteristics in terms of experience and gender influence the nature and strength of these relationships? Research methodology – The data used in this paper is based on student surveys and a centralised system of reporting and archiving academic results. The latter contains information on the academic performance of individual students, whereas the surveys gathered information on the students’ background characteristics (experience and gender), their motivation for pursuing academic studies and their learning strategies. The difference in proportion tests and OLS regressions were then applied to investigate differences between student groups and relationships between the different variables. Findings – The findings reveal that business students are more extrinsically than intrinsically motivated; that deep learning approaches lead to higher grades for particular examination forms, and that female students are typically more intrinsically motivated, engage more in deep learning approaches and perform better than their male counterparts. Practical implications – The findings suggest that practitioners in higher education involved with the business and/or university college students have good reasons to stimulate motivation generally, and intrinsic motivation in particular. However, this must be accompanied by examination forms that promote deep learning. Originality/Value – In contrast to most research, this paper focuses on the interlinkages between motivation, learning and performance among business students in a university college setting. This contrasts most research on this topic which tends to be focused on university students, particularly in the US, in other fields of study or accounting. Moreover, this paper also takes student characteristics into account and uses a variety of measures to operationalise academic performance. Copyright © 2019 Bengtsson & Teleman. Published by VGTU Press

Workplace preparedness is an integral application of information literacy skills for our students as they move forward and leave the university. It is also important to prepare students for the information needs they will face as they complete co-ops and internships during their time in academia. To best educate students in the information literacy skills they will need on-the-job, it is important for librarians to understand what types of information employers are requiring students to use in these co-op and internship experiences and in what ways. While work has been done on this regarding engineering students (Jeffryes and Lafferty, 2012), this topic is relatively unexplored with business students. In an effort to better understand the workplace information literacy needs of business students during co-ops and internships, two librarians (one business librarian and one engineering librarian) and an undergraduate researcher (a senior in the business school) collaborated to survey business students and alumni who have completed an internship or a co-op regarding their information use in these experiences. Students were asked about their experiences finding and using articles (e.g., scholarly, trade, news), books/ebooks, company information (e.g., competitor information, financials), court cases or law reviews, industry standards (e.g., International Organization of Standardization (ISO)), laws and regulations, market and industry research reports, patents, and technical reports/white papers. The information from this survey will be used to determine both successes and gaps in current information literacy instruction. This presentation will provide an overview of this project and share the initial findings and planned applications of this research.

Self-reference is a fundamental aspect of the learning process; all students use themselves as a model to understand others and the things around them. In this paper, we consider how self-reference as a learning technique leads students to unconsciously use themselves as a model for target segments in marketing plans. As many business teachers have probably experienced, students tend to choose to market most products to young adults in their assessments. The act of studying marketing within a business degree should effectively reduce this bias; students should use business and marketing models and empirical approaches as per their teaching when defining a target segment for their marketing plans. What this paper shows, however, is that this self-referential bias remains present in students and even persists among qualified managers working in marketing departments, despite marketing tools and even stereotypes. We identify an immediate practical strategy for business and marketing educators to use to respond to this issue. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the course withdrawal behavior of business and engineering students in a private university. While previous research has studied such behavior, the literature remains sparse and dated. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a negative binomial model in order to model the total number of course withdrawals for 760 students. The data set includes all courses taken by the students, with a total of 25,160 course outcomes. Findings Among the findings of the study are that males withdraw from courses more than females, engineering courses have the highest withdrawal rates, and male engineering students withdraw more than any other group. Originality/value While dropping out of college has received cross-national interest, the same cannot be said of course withdrawal. Most research to date has been conducted in a community college setting or has used a subset of the courses taken by students at universities in the USA. Thus, this is one of the first studies to investigate course withdrawal in another country.

This paper explores the empirical analysis of a hypothesis related to the existence of significant differences among students of social science and business, as related to their value orientation(s) and worldview. Special attention is paid to the students’ perception of social justice and fairness. The paper firstly draws upon the existing results of value surveys, which are applicable to the student population. Further, it is hypothesized that significant differences in value orientations exist between students of business administration and social sciences/humanities, as well as that those differences can be linked to the decisions, relevant to their career choices. The human resource management implications, relevant for the successful motivation and performance management of the surveyed student population, will be identified as well. Methodology of the study is based on the Rokeach value survey, which has been validated and discussed multiple times since the 1970s. The methodological choice of the research instrument is based on the availability of comparable empirical research results in multiple countries and contexts, as well as on its validation in different fields of social science, including sociology, social psychology, anthropology, etc. The obtained results are analyzed and visualized by using the SPSS application software.

Apart from the regular curricula in higher education, institutions increasingly offer additional initiatives or honours programmes for students to excel. Artevelde UAS wants to provide similar additional learning opportunities, in which the notion of excellence is based on reflection, self-direction and ‘giving back’ to stakeholders. This paper will provide an elaboration of these opportunities, based on three research questions: (1) What project or initiative can be considered as a valid and well-defined form of excelling, (2) How do we formally structure and organize this initiative or project, and (3) How can we evaluate and validate students’ experiences of excelling? Students of (International) Business Management at Artevelde UAS can excel in three different ways: by professionalizing and becoming an expert in a certain topic or area, by becoming an ambassador for one particular 21st century skill that has been put forward and highlighted by Artevelde UAS in its mission (global citizenship, entrepreneurship or sustainability), or by cooperating with professional business partners in order to develop and implement a real-life project.

Cilj je ovog rada usporediti strategije učenja studenata na različitim akademskim područjima u visokom obrazovanju. Prethodna su istraživanja ograničila fokus na usporedbu studenata na teme poput stupnja društvene odgovornosti, osobnih vrijednosti, akademskog nepoštenja / integriteta i emocionalne inteligencije. Suprotno tome, ovo istraživanje bavi se pitanjem jesu li strategije učenja studenata poslovne ekonomije bolje od onih studenata s drugih akademskih područja. Do danas je naše znanje i razumijevanje ove problematike ograničeno, iako je tema strategija učenja zadobila značajnu pozornost u istraživanjima vezanim uz obrazovanje. Ovo je istraživanje primijenilo mjernu ljestvicu LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory) kako bi se utvrdile razlike u strategijama učenja između skupina studenata. Statistička analiza pokazala je da studenti poslovne ekonomije imaju učinkovitije strategije učenja od onih koji nisu studenti poslovne ekonomije uključeni u ovu studiju. U radu se raspravlja o potencijalnim razlozima tih rezultata te se na temelju tih nalaza razmatraju teorijske i praktične implikacije., The aim of this paper is to compare the learning strategies of students in different academic fields in higher education. Previous research has limited its focus to comparing students on topics such as the degree of social responsibility, personal values, academic dishonesty/integrity, and emotional intelligence. In contrast, this study addresses the issue of whether the learning strategies of business students are better than those of students from other academic fields. To date, our knowledge and understanding of this issue are limited even though the topic of learning strategies has gained considerable attention in educational research. This research applied the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) to elucidate the differences in study strategies between groups of students. Findings from the statistical analysis indicate that business students have more effective learning strategies than the non-business students included in this study. Potential reasons for these findings are discussed and based on these findings theoretical and practical implications are viewed.

International audience; The objective of this paper is to study Responsible Consumption (RC) behavior and practices in business students from China and Hong Kong studying in France. This research investigates young consumers' Responsible Consumption (RC) pattern according to their Chinese nationality. A qualitative methodology using semidirective interviews with 70 international young people aged 23-26 was conducted. Four themes emerged from the analysis. They refer to (1) Young consumers' description of their host country model of consumption, (2) their perception of responsible consumption and the way they think RC can be improved (3) within their countries and (4) around the world. Results underlined similarities between consumers from a same country towards responsible consumption. The results describe student's consumption models in their host country, their perception of RC, the way they think RC could be improved within their country and in the world. The research highlights a model of patterns of responsible consumption across cultures due to a global consumer class that has access to international brands, goods and services. The purpose of our study is to show how responsible consumption attitudes are emerging in younger generations. For our paper the international exchange Chinese students of the Rouen Business School in France have participated in a research project concerned about RC.

International audience; The objective of this paper is to study Responsible Consumption (RC) behavior and practices in business students from China and Hong Kong studying in France. The results describe student's consumption models in their host country, their perception of RC, the way they think RC could be improved within their country and in the world. The research highlights a model of patterns of responsible consumption across cultures due to a global consumer class that has access to international brands, goods and services. The purpose of our study is to show how responsible consumption attitudes are emerging in younger generations. For our paper the international exchange Chinese students of the Rouen Business School in France have participated in a research project concerned about RC.

Studying entrepreneurial intention has long been an important topic in the field of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we investigate the entrepreneurial intentions of final-year management university students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The objectives of the study were to test whether the TPB can help explain the entrepreneurial intentions of university students; to determine whether students will have intentions to start a business and to test the validity of the entrepreneurial intention questionnaire in a Saudi Arabia context. The study was conducted by means of a survey. We found that attitude towards becoming an entrepreneur; perceived behavioural control and subjective norms are positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Consistent with earlier research, the findings reveal that the TPB is a valuable tool in understanding entrepreneurial intention of Saudi university youth. Most of the students indicated that they intended to start businesses as soon as they had completed their studies and the entrepreneurial intention questionnaire was found to be a valid instrument to measure the entrepreneurial intention in this country. Furthermore, our findings reveal that the moderating effect of some additional contextual determinants does not seem to have a particular effect on predicting entrepreneurial intentions when moderating TPB dimensions. Recommendations for policy makers, entrepreneurship educators and researchers have been suggested.

The aim of the paper is to compare and contrast academic standards in Business English writing with the current business practice in HR management. The research was designed according to the principles of exploratory practice where the usual classroom procedures are used to provide teachers with insight into a specific interest area. In this case, we wanted to find out to what extent our teaching of business correspondence, more specifically job applications, might contribute to our students’ success in the recruitment process. The research was carried out at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb and included 150 students who have all had a minimum of eight years of language instruction in general English prior to entering university. Following a training period in business writing skills students were asked to respond to a job ad. Student writing was marked and commented on according to the criteria widely recommended by ELT experts. The researchers focused on the layout, content, use of set phrases and language accuracy (grammar, spelling). The same letters/emails were subsequently submitted to experienced HR experts who were asked to comment on them and streamline students on how to get short-listed. Consequently, this paper presents a comparative analysis of issues and topics as emphasized by the HR experts on the one hand and the language instructors on the other. Furthermore, it addresses the impact of corporate culture as presented in the job ad on the students’ writing style and letter/email content. The implications of our research are that, given the competent teaching/training, the students can relatively effortlessly acquire the business correspondence skills in the areas of the layout, phrases, and quality of English message structure. The areas in need of improvement seem to be within the realm of the content: understanding each individual job ad as a text reflecting the numerous aspects of the job itself and the company /professional culture on the whole. The valuable educational implications of this research could be summarised as follows: • Letter writing/Business correspondence is learnable to a great extent given that applicants are competent readers, able to infer relevant information on the focus of the ad and the company culture shining through, • Job applications must reflect the applicants’ motivation and enthusiasm for the specific job and further professional development, and • Applicants should use common sense when estimating and presenting their qualifications and personal traits as suited to the job. The authors firmly believe that cross-fertilization between academic teaching practice in business schools and current business practices can significantly enhance the achievements of students as future professionals competing in the labour market.

The diversity of today’s global workforce requires standardised business practices which will be widely applicable, unambiguously interpreted and easily understood across the world. Efficient communication is thus one of the key soft skills in business and it primarily implies highly formatted types of writing. Consequently, together with assessing job applicants’ knowledge of their respective fields, companies/institutions often test candidates’ writing skills to elicit the best recruits. However, Croatian business students seem to underperform in writing effectively for professional purposes, which is particularly noticeable in business language courses. The aim of this paper is therefore to stress the need to develop business students’ writing competence in order to make them more competitive in the job market. Drafting business reports lends itself here as a useful teaching activity in business education as it encompasses a variety of professional skills reaching beyond language competence. The paper presents the results of research of the second-year students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, comparing students’ pre-teaching perception of effective report-writing and their actual performance. It concludes by arguing for a more significant presence of structured writing not only in language courses but also across the curricula.

Entrepreneurial competences consist of attitudes, knowledge and skills. Several higher education institutions support and promote students' learning of entrepreneurial competences during their studies. In order to verify the development of these competences they should be first examined at the early phase of the studies. Therefore, in the autumn 2017 when a new curriculum was launched in the business department of a Finnish university of applied sciences, a follow-up study with three sub-studies was planned to annually survey students' attitudes towards entrepreneurship, generic competences and subject-specific competences of entrepreneurship.This paper presents the results of the first sub-study which examined the students' attitudes in the beginning of their studies. According to the findings, their attitudes towards entrepreneurship are quite positive. Although the aim is not to generalize the results of the study beyond this student group, the findings provide a solid starting point for the implementation of the curriculum in this higher education institution and thus, for the development of students' even more positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship during their studies.

Environmental awareness and changing attitudes toward “green consumption” are becoming evident in emerging countries’ markets. Using an extended theory of planned behavior, this paper aims to examine emerging countries’ business students’ intentions to purchase green vehicles. Stratified random sampling was used to select study participants, and data were collected through face-to-face interviews. Results revealed that environmental knowledge and awareness have a significant influence on business students’ favorable attitudes toward green vehicles. Further, a significant association between attitudes toward green vehicles, perceived behavioral controls, and intentions to purchase green vehicles was observed. Findings serve to inform managers and policy makers who are formulating strategies for maximizing value creation in an era of increasingly environmentally aware consumers in emerging markets. Ultimately, this policy will help to promote green technology initiatives, and encourage higher rates of adoption of eco-friendly vehicles in emerging countries.

Typically, Romanian university colleges of finance, and management classes at the undergraduate level or, for the first time, while pursuing studies in the masters of business administration (MBA) program. Generally, university administrators do not impose tax courses on business students (economics, finance, management, etc.) and sometimes do not even require them for accounting students. managers, not truly understanding the value of tax planning in their own businesses let alone in university curricula and few available tax professors. With these beliefs then, they generally do not advise university administrators to require tax courses for students who are about to enter the business field. much that they rarely consider entering academia because of the pay cut. accounting, economics, finance, and management studies. Next, solutions to the lack of professors are discussed. These results are then analyzed with implications for Romanian universities with the conclusion following. business require students to pursue basic accounting, economics, Administrators likely do not require tax studies because of the combination of their real-world advisors, Many real-world managers, universities’ advisors, also do not truly comprehend the value of tax planning. Too few tax professors are available not just in Romania but also globally. Individuals in the tax field earn so The paper then provides examples, evidencing the necessity of combining tax knowledge with financial Key words: Romanian universities; tax courses; required curriculum; business students.

This paper discusses a collaborative initiative between a module leader and library staff at Sheffield Hallam University to address students’ poor information literacy skills, with particular emphasis on web searching. It includes an analysis of the findings of a survey of students’ information literacy skills and information seeking habits at the start and end of the module. The development, implementation and impact of active and reflective learning techniques embedded within an international business module are discussed, and the authors conclude that this type of collaborative initiative supports effective student learning and skills development.

Due to the rapid rate at which organizations around the world work, communicate and learn ; managers need to be equipped with the skills how to make decisions in a very limited time frame but at the same time considering all the necessary information. Our role as business educators carries an important mission in expanding students’ productive capabilities and preparing them for their future managerial roles. We claim that business students are being prepared for positions of authority ; therefore 21st century business education should considerably aid students in thinking beyond profitability and self-interest. Business classes need to dedicate time to the non-rational decision making in order to raise students’ awareness of tacit knowledge, implicit learning and intuitive judgments, and not just focus on quantitative/logical decision making approaches. Business schools provide an essential evolution in management education’s and should incorporate courses that develop students’ systemic thinking. Most people have extreme difficulty conceptualizing behavior over time and anticipating the impact of feedback loops. The references we present in our paper indicate that this difficulty transcends several demographic characteristics, among other age, national origin, and educational background. Practical implication from the findings is that we need to train business students in principles and tools of systemic thinking in order for them to be able to make good (efficient and ethical) decisions in complex social systems. Developing character strengths, such as open mindedness, compassion, and humility through reflection can strengthen ethical decision making. Cases are a frequent part of management education, therefore the case of effective and responsible decision making would involve generating innovative new alternatives. Managers are endowed with a legitimacy and power that is exclusively available to them ; therefore they should be aware of their higher responsibility in decision making. Understanding why students decide and behave as they do enables educators to appreciate their concerns and design appropriate curriculum. In accordance with above mentioned consideration in empirical part we provide an insight into how the specific tool of systemic thinking may support decision making. The research question set is as follows: Do new technologies provide potential to support responsible decision making? The technical support used in research included a case of 58 participants is Super Decisions Software. The preliminary findings approve the presumption that technology is a reliable and valuable partner in the responsible decision making process.

[ES] El objetivo de este trabajo es doble. En primer lugar, examinar la percepción general que los estudiantes de ADE tienen de la ética empresarial y, específicamente, sus puntos de vista sobre la importancia y objetivos de la ética contable. En segundo lugar, analizar en qué medida las posibles diferencias en dichas percepciones dependen de haber cursado previamente asignaturas de ética, así como del género y la edad de los estudiantes. En los últimos años, en estrecha conexión con escándalos financieros, el debate público sobre la ética empresarial se ha intensificado tanto a nivel local como internacional. En consecuencia, existe una creciente preocupación por la introducción formal de la ética empresarial en los planes de estudios universitarios. El propósito de ello es mejorar el comportamiento ético de los futuros empresarios y directivos, y en particular de los profesionales de la contabilidad. En este estudio, se investigan las percepciones del alumnado acerca de la importancia de la ética contable, a partir de una muestra de 551 estudiantes de ADE de la Universitat Politècnica de València. Para ello, se utilizan diversas técnicas estadísticas para realizar análisis descriptivos y se contrastan varias hipótesis. Los resultados del estudio empírico indican que aquéllos estudiantes que han cursado previamente asignaturas de ética son especialmente proclives a pensar que la educación contable debería incluir consideraciones éticas, y además muestran un mayor interés en profundizar en el estudio de esta materia. Así mismo, nuestros resultados arrojan diferencias significativas en las percepciones de la importancia de la ética contable en función del género y de la edad de los estudiantes. En la línea de anteriores investigaciones, las mujeres y los estudiantes de mayor edad muestran mayores inclinaciones éticas que, respectivamente, los hombres y los estudiantes más jóvenes., [Otros] The aim of this paper is twofold. First, consider the general perception that business students have of business ethics, and specifically his views on the importance and objectives of accounting ethics. Second, analyze the extent to which differences in these perceptions depend on having previously studied subjects of ethics, as well as gender and age of the students. In recent years, in close connection with financial scandals, the public debate on business ethics has intensified both locally and internationally. Consequently, there is a growing concern for the formal introduction of business ethics in university curricula. The purpose of this is to improve the ethical behavior of future entrepreneurs and managers, and in particular accounting professionals. In this study, we investigated the perceptions of students about the importance of accounting ethics, from a sample of 551 business students of the Technical University of Valencia. For this, several statistical techniques are used for testing the research hypotheses. The results indicate that those students who have previously taken courses in ethics are especially prone to think that accounting education should include ethical considerations, and also show a greater interest in further study of this subject. Also, our results show significant differences in perceptions of the importance of accounting ethics by gender and age of the students (women and older students show higher ethical inclinations, respectively)

Adopting a development vision that emphasizes the endogenous factors of each locality, this paper investigates the factors that determine the level and the nature of the capital stock of a community. The concept of development defended in this study only is possible of being reached through the increasing of the social and cultural characteristics of the region. Being thus, it is necessary that the region knows to promote and to adopt its social capital level - as part of the development process. The survey was done in the city of Farroupilha (RS), using a sample of business students of a local college. Descriptive statistics, factorial analysis, linear regression and analysis of variance had been used. The results point the variables related to the “Participation in the community” as having the lesser levels of social capital, while the variables related to the “Work environment” reached the best performances. The analysis of the results considers the socio-cultural aspects of the region and aims, thus, to find elements related to the characteristics and the endogenous forces of the community. As future intention it is expects to raise insights for the construction of social actions - promoted for private companies, government or civil society -, which answer to the challenges of generation of social capital and local development., Partindo de uma visão de desenvolvimento que enfatiza os fatores endógenos de cada localidade, este artigo propõe-se a investigar os fatores que determinam o nível e a natureza do capital social de uma comunidade. O padrão de desenvolvimento defendido neste estudo só é possível de ser atingido através da potencialização das especificidades sociais e culturais da região. Sendo assim, é preciso que a região saiba promover e adotar seu estoque sociocultural – especialmente, o capital social – como pressuposto, meio e objetivo do processo de desenvolvimento. A pesquisa quantitativa foi realizada na cidade de Farroupilha (RS), tendo como amostra os estudantes de administração de uma instituição de ensino superior local. Foram utilizadas estatísticas descritivas, análise fatorial, regressão linear e análise de variância. Os resultados apontam as variáveis relacionadas à participação na comunidade como tendo os menores níveis de capital, enquanto as variáveis relacionadas ao ambiente de trabalho obtiveram os melhores desempenhos. A análise das descobertas da pesquisa leva em conta os aspectos socioculturais da região em estudo e procura, assim, construir relações que estejam alinhadas com as especificidades e com as forças endógenas do local. Como propósito futuro espera-se levantar insights para a construção de ações sociais - promovidas por empresas privadas, governo ou sociedade civil -, as quais respondam aos desafios de geração de capital social e de desenvolvimento local.

The composition of the student population in Australian universities has changed significantly over the last two decades. Not only have overseas students become a significant proportion of the student body, but there are also increasing numbers of students from non-traditional backgrounds such as mature-aged students and students entering from the TAFE sector. This paper aims to understand student attrition patterns in Australian universities with diversified student bodies. Using data collected from business students enrolled at University of South Australia, Adelaide in Australia in 2005, this study explores the impact of several factors on attrition including gender, birth country, funding source, academic load, language spoken at home, citizenship, credit transfer and time of admission. Findings from this study suggest that, while attrition of a diverse student body exhibits some similar patterns as described in the literature, there are some largely overlooked factors, such as language spoken at home and credit transfer that may have a significant impact on attrition.

Quality business education is one of the major prerequisites for successful integration into the global business environment. It should not only provide students with specific fact-based knowledge, but also equip them for life-long learning, an indispensable career requirement. In achieving these goals, student motivation plays a crucial role. Teachers should try to understand what motivates students so as to better target teaching strategies and improve the quality of the learning outcome. This paper analyses what motivates or demotivates students attending academic courses of Business English at the Graduate School of Business and Economics, University of Zagreb, and tries to ascertain the link between students' motivation and their performance. The research the authors are presenting is based on a survey launched in summer 2005 in which students answered two broad groups of questions. The first covered the aspects of motivation not directly related to teaching: intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, role of pre-knowledge, etc. The second group of questions encompassed class-specific items: course goals, the grading system, types of class activities, and the role of the teacher. The obtained findings suggest what teaching strategies can be used to enhance students' motivation and help them become competent learners.

The paper presents the results of research conducted within the Department of Foreign Business Languages at the Zagreb Graduate School of Economics and Business (GSEB), University of Zagreb. The objective of the research was to see to what extent the syllabus of the Business English (BE) course meets the growing needs of Croatia's business community. A sample of the school's alumni, currently employed in different banks, companies and government bodies in Croatia, was surveyed using a questionnaire focusing on three broad areas: language requirements during the recruitment process, the respondents' current needs and their assessment of the relevance and quality of the Business English course at the GSEB.

Future economists can present various products, services and ideas more effectively with the aid of hypermedia. In this paper we analyzed our experience in introducing hypermedia applications for business students. GIS is a complex software tool that can be applied to many types of problem and therefore interest in GIS is expanding rapidly. There are different areas of business where GIS applications are already in use, like business administration, decision support systems, marketing, operations research and real estate management. That is the reason to make efforts to introduce GIS in the education of students of economics.

Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a relatively new concept, one that explains why certain individuals can adapt to different cultural contexts more efficiently than others. Using Earley & Ang's (2003) multidimensional concept as an analysis framework, this paper will study the intercultural intelligence among business students in Romania. We have chosen this research topic because we believe that the business students of today will become the global managers of tomorrow. Given that CQ is a multidimensional concept, this paper will analyze the answers for each of the four CQ dimensions, in order to identify which of the four capabilities is more or less developed among students. The final purpose is to understand the CQ components on which higher education should focus more. We wish to find educational solutions adapted to the actual needs of business graduates.