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Skills associated with employment positions in SMEs and favourable attitudes toward self-employment: Longitudinal evidence from students who participated in the shell technology enterprise programme
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UNSPECIFIED. (2006) Skills associated with employment positions in SMEs and favourable attitudes toward self-employment: Longitudinal evidence from students who participated in the shell technology enterprise programme. TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, 18 (1). pp. 93-124. ISSN 0953-7325
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537320500520692
Abstract
Successive British governments have encouraged young people to accumulate skills and attributes that would enable them to obtain jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as develop careers in enterprise. This article evaluates the contribution of the 1994 Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP) that subsidised the placement of students in SMEs. In 1997, responses were gathered from STEP students as well as a control group of non-STEP students. The human capital profiles of students reporting full-time employment positions in smaller private firms as well as those reporting a favourable attitude towards self-employment or business ownership were ascertained. Participation in the programme was not found to be significantly associated with the selected outcomes. Skills and attributes honed by the programme were, however, significantly associated with the selected outcomes. Policy-makers need to appreciate that the skills and attributes reported by students associated with the propensity to obtain employment positions in smaller private firms are not the same as those associated with the propensity to report a favourable attitude towards self-employment or business ownership.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management Q Science |
| Journal or Publication Title: | TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT |
| Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| ISSN: | 0953-7325 |
| Date: | February 2006 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Page Range: | pp. 93-124 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/09537320500520692 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/33868 |
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