Stavroula Laspita

• PostDoc
• Assistant Professor at University of Western Macedonia

This study explores the impact of the perceived well-being of students; the degree to which they perceive that their university enhances, facilitates, and supports six sustainable development goals (SDGs); and entrepreneurship education on nascent entrepreneurship. Moving beyond main effects, our research uses entrepreneurship education as a modera...

Entrepreneurship education faces several challenges related to pedagogical-didactic principles and methodologies adopted in delivering entrepreneurial learning. More than half of EU member states have limited or no guidelines for entrepreneurship teaching, while the training of teachers and trainers emerges as an imperative need. Hence, the present...

Entrepreneurship education is essential for the development of entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial mindset among tertiary students. Universities, all over the world nowadays, offer entrepreneurship courses (compulsory or elective) and other educational offerings. Research findings regarding the impact of these offerings on students’ antic...

Career intentions of students are extremely important and they are affected by the particular social context, such as cultures, communities, universities in which they are embedded. The exposure to entrepreneurship education may also have moderating effects on the different social antecedents of career intentions. We draw data from a large sample a...

This study examines the relationships between brand evangelism, brand preference and purchase intentions decisions on clothing. Using data from online questionnaires and through probit regression analysis, we investigate the contemporary purchase behaviour and social media interaction between customers and enterprises in Greece. In doing so, we att...

The purpose of Entrepreneurship Education does not only relate to the establishment of a business, but also to the development of skills and attitudes that contribute to individuals’ personal and professional growth. At the same time, the concept itself encompasses both the content, as well as the pedagogical and didactic methods. However, teachers...

Entrepreneurship education has been discussed in entrepreneurship research as an essential ingredient for the development of entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial mindset among students. Many Universities, all over the world, offer entrepreneurship related courses (either compulsory or elective), among other offerings. The research results...

We draw on cross-cultural theory and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project to develop a model for the transmission of entrepreneurial intentions within families in different cultures. Using data on more than 40,000 individuals from 15 countries, we show that beyond the transmission of entrepreneurial intentions fro...

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied that relates changes in entrepreneurial intentions to...

In contrast to entrepreneurs after the commencement of their business activities, potential entrepreneurs and the pre-start-up phase seem to have not attracted a corresponding attention. Hence, students have been selected in this study as a research object. Following Krueger et al. (2000), intentions are the best predictors of planned behaviour in...

In contradiction to previous research, which focuses on entrepreneurs during their professional activity, this study concentrates on an earlier point in time and that is before the working life begins. The micro-social environment (family background), entrepreneurial education and specific cognitions (fostering and hindering perceptions) towards se...

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Over the last twenty years, academics and economic organizations have demonstrated a growing interest in women entrepreneurs. Female entrepreneurship is now considered to be one of the most important sources of growth, employment and innovation. In the United States, women owned businesses are the fastest growing sector of new ventures overall. How...

Entrepreneurs make a series of decisions in order to explore and pursue opportunities they have identified (Cuhna, 2007). Decision making is a central part of teamwork (Glaser, 1996) and teams are believed to perform better and more effectively in decision making than individuals (Conrath, 1966). A decision making process leading to superior perfor...

Self-employed parents can trigger the entrepreneurial intentions of their offspring through several mechanisms, e.g. genetics (Nicolaou & Shane, 2009), parenting styles (Aldrich & Kim, 2007), the transfer of financial and social capital (Sorenson, 2004), and because of socialization processes where they function as entrepreneurial role models (Matt...