Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Business Students: A Cross Cultural Perspective

Entrepreneurial activities could act as a main engine of economic progress and an entrepreneur is a vital element of the economic progress . It could be stated that without creativity, well-defined goals, innovations it could be impossible to observe economic development. Current study has defined the term of entrepreneur by relying on differrent perspectives and also indicated several characteristics of entrepreneurs and personality traits of the entrepreneurs. Moreover , study also stressed the importance of culture at shaping entrepreneurial attitudes. The main aim of the research is to analyze enteprenuerial attitudes of EMU business students with the selected dimensions; locus of control, self-efficacy, innovativeness and tolerance for ambiguity respectively. As an overall 122 students were surveyed for the current study. Result of the study indicated that students from Russia, Azerbaijan, TRNC, Zimbabwe tend to have low tolerance for ambiguity whereas, students from Nigeria, Turkey and Iran have high tolerance for ambiguity. Furthermore, study also indicated that entrepreneurial attitude and years left to graduate have no difference. It is also recommended to test the impact of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial attitude for the further related studies. Keywords: Entreprenuership, enteprenuerial attitudes