Analysis of the effects of entrepreneurship in sport management. Is gender a conditioning factor?
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entrepreneurship Education, sport sciences students, university, gender, entrepreneurial variables.Abstract
Due to the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain, and the fact that sport is a growing sector, formulas must be sought to encourage entrepreneurship and thus improve the employability of future graduates of the sport sector. However, although the number of entrepreneurs is gradually increasing, there is still a gender gap between the number of entrepreneurial men compared to entrepreneurial women. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyse whether sports entrepreneurship education has a different effect on sport sciences students depending on their gender. To this end, a sample of 45 sport sciences students from the University of Valencia who were attending a course in sports management and entrepreneurship was analysed. A longitudinal design was carried out, with a pre-test and a post-test, using a questionnaire to measure these effects. The results show that entrepreneurial education had a different impact depending on the gender of the students, although both improved the perception of the university climate towards entrepreneurship, men significantly improved their perceived behavioural control meanwhile women improved their perception of entrepreneurial skills. Finally, a series of practical implications are proposed for the implementation of sports education policies from the university with the aim of promoting sports entrepreneurial mind-set in both male and female students.Downloads
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