MBA students and their motivation to star-up their own enterprises : an international experience

Abstract

The postgraduate studies give the opportunities to the graduates to develop skills and abilities to discover new business opportunities and to star-up their own business. In this paper we analyse the impact of postgraduate studies on the entrepreneurial activity developed by MBA graduates. We find empirical support for the relevant role played by the fact of belonging to a entrepreneurial culture family, individual personality characteristics (non-risk averse, creativity, taking initiative, teamwork skills). The paper also analyse the marginal gender effects that moderate the entrepreneurial activity intention. For this reseach a survey has been buit ad hoc for MBA itnernatioanl students of three Public Spanish Universities’ Master on-line on Business Administration programme