Abstract:
This study aims to define and quantify the impact of perceived advantages and disadvantages on university students' decision making about starting a business in Central European countries, specifically in Slovak Czech Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The empirical research, carried out from March to June 2024, aimed at finding out the attitudes of university students towards the advantages and disadvantages of entrepreneurship. The study uses a questionnaire survey that was conducted in June 2024. The study tested several hypotheses, using correlational and regression analysis. The results show that the most significant factors influencing students' decision to start a business after graduation are the perceived benefits of entrepreneurship, such as career growth and the ability to take full advantage of own skills. All three countries showed some similar trends, with the largest factor reflecting the benefits of better career development had the greatest impact on decision-making, interesting job opportunities and the ability to use their own skills. University students in Slovakia and Hungary consider it an advantage that an entrepreneur has more money and better social status. Slovak students are negatively affected by the fact that the disadvantages of entrepreneurship outweigh the advantages. The biggest disadvantage for students in the Czech Republic and Hungary is the unstable financial income of the entrepreneur. Based on of these results recommendations for the design of effective educational and incentive programmes to promote entrepreneurship that could help students help overcome or mitigate the identified disadvantages and strengthen their positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship
Dorusincova, A.; Belás, J.; Štreimikis, J.; Bencsik, A. 2025. The impact of perceived advantages and disadvantages on the start-up of entrepreneurship by university students. Polish journal of management studies : Czestochowa University of Technology. ISSN 2081-7452. 32, 2, p. 39–55. DOI: 10.17512/pjms.2025.32.2.03. [Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science); Scopus].