Genc Alimehmeti, Ervisa Ndoka and Angelo Paletta
This study aims to explore the various factors influencing students’ intentions toward sustainable entrepreneurship by investigating the case of Albania. Specifically, among the…
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the various factors influencing students’ intentions toward sustainable entrepreneurship by investigating the case of Albania. Specifically, among the intention antecedents, it explores the role of environmental awareness and green consumption commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual model is created to integrate the theory of planned behavior with additional sustainability-oriented factors, providing a comprehensive examination of the factors influencing higher education students’ intentions to embark on sustainable entrepreneurial ventures. A questionnaire was designed and administered to a sample of 411 third-year bachelor students at the University of Tirana, Albania, during the 2023–2024 academic year. This study posits nine hypotheses and uses structural equation modeling to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of self-efficacy, environmental awareness, education, entrepreneurial knowledge and green consumption commitment on sustainable entrepreneurship intentions.
Findings
The findings confirm that self-efficacy, personal attitude and subjective norms directly impact students’ intentions to engage in sustainable entrepreneurial activities. In addition, the paper finds that environmental awareness influences commitment to green consumption and indirectly affects sustainable entrepreneurship intentions among students. Entrepreneurial education and knowledge have a significant indirect effect as well, highlighting the crucial role of higher education institutions in fostering an environment conducive to sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives through curriculum reorientation toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promoting environmental stewardship.
Originality/value
This research enriches the sustainable entrepreneurship literature by shedding light on the antecedents of sustainable entrepreneurship intention among students, particularly in a developing country like Albania. It offers novel insights into the integral role of HEIs in nurturing future entrepreneurs equipped to tackle environmental challenges through innovative solutions. Furthermore, the study’s findings emphasize the importance of incorporating sustainability-focused values into educational frameworks, presenting a case for policy changes and curriculum development supporting sustainable development.
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Angelo Paletta, Genc Alimehmeti, Greta Mazzetti and Dina Guglielmi
This study explores the factors that explain the adoption of innovative teaching practices within schools and how this is determined by the different perceptions of principals and…
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Purpose
This study explores the factors that explain the adoption of innovative teaching practices within schools and how this is determined by the different perceptions of principals and teachers.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use the self-other agreement to measure the difference between the principal and teachers' rating based on the responses of 255 principals and 10,415 teachers, applying polynomial regression with surface analysis to examine the in-agreement/disagreement of self- and other-ratings.
Findings
Results indicate that schools where principals and teachers agree on the level of collaborative culture, learning climate, professional development and instructional leadership are associated with higher innovative teaching practices, creating opportunities for stimulating learning environments. In addition, the adoption of innovative professional practices is more likely to result when there is disagreement with teacher over-rating the factors.
Practical implications
It has practical implications for developing strategies aimed at encouraging the implementation of innovative teaching practices among teachers and it extends the research on teachers' professional practices by using self-other agreement data collection method and surface analysis.
Originality/value
The vast collection of data provide a unique investigation opportunity of the effects of collaborative culture, learning climate, professional development and instructional leadership on innovative teaching in Italy.
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Angelo Paletta and Genc Alimehmeti
This paper aims to analyze the ex ante and ex post economic efficiency of the preventive agreement (concordato preventivo) or composition with creditors as defined by the Italian…
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Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the ex ante and ex post economic efficiency of the preventive agreement (concordato preventivo) or composition with creditors as defined by the Italian Bankruptcy Law. This study examines four possible outcomes of the procedure: homologation (confirmation); the degree of dissent/consent of creditors; the revocation, admissibility or inadmissibility; the declaration of the company bankruptcy in preventive agreement.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses data from 728 Italian companies which filed for preventive agreement in 2016. In reference to each of the four possible outcomes, this study applies nine logit regressions to analyze the effects of a series of efficiency variables ex ante (corporate-based drivers) and ex post (procedure-based drivers).
Findings
Results show the relevance of the debt structure, ownership structure and virtuous behavior, corporate governance and management systems, as well as effectivity of the court control on the preventive agreement outcome.
Originality/value
This paper draws on original data of bankruptcy in Italy and gives empirical evidence of the ex ante and ex post factors on the outcomes of the preventive agreement.
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Tomasz Gajderowicz, Gabriela Grotkowska and Leszek Wincenciak
– The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of job satisfaction determinants of higher education graduates across six selected study domains.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of job satisfaction determinants of higher education graduates across six selected study domains.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the theoretical considerations, derived from human capital theory and signalling theory, the authors formulate the model explaining job satisfaction as a broad measure of labour market success. Explanatory variables include various socio-demographic characteristics as well as market environment and process of learning, modes of teaching and study programme characteristics. Data used in the analysis comes from two special surveys of European research projects REFLEX and HEGESCO. Principal component analysis method and OLS regression were used to estimate model parameters.
Findings
The results of our research show the important role of characteristics of educational process, as well as individual graduates’ early work-related experience in predicting job satisfaction. Differences in job satisfaction determinants across domains may be to some extent explained by the differences in the labour market characteristics for graduates in given discipline. Variety of education-related characteristics taken into account in the empirical analysis of determinants of job satisfaction is a key valuable contribution to the research in the field.
Originality/value
Research findings indicate the areas of potential actions aimed at improving future job satisfaction which can be undertaken by higher education institutions’ management bodies.