Feakes Adele, Lindsay Noel, Palmer Edward, Petrovski Kiro
School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia.
Adelaide Business School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Animals (Basel). 2023 Mar 31;13(7):1225. doi: 10.3390/ani13071225.
Little is known about veterinary entrepreneurial predisposition. Yet entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (entrepreneurial behaviour of employees) foster business innovation and growth and support wealth creation and employment in both privately and corporately owned businesses which deliver contemporary veterinary services. We used responses from 515 final-year students in Australian entrepreneurship, nursing, and veterinary programs to capture entrepreneurial intention (EI), outcome expectations (OE-sb), entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), and corporate/large organisation work intentions (CWIs). Veterinary respondents stood out for their high EI and high OE-sb, but low financial ESE and low CWI. Proportions of veterinary, entrepreneurship, and nursing respondents differed markedly across distinct cluster profiles representing entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial, both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial, indifferent, and corporate employment intentions and attributes. Post hoc analysis revealed proportional cluster membership differences for respondents from different veterinary schools. Our findings raise questions regarding (1) the effectiveness of veterinary business curricula competencies which focus on expense management and (2) the implications of the mismatch of motivations and goals of new veterinary sector entrants whose low intent to work in a corporate environment is at odds with increasing corporate ownership of veterinary practices. To inform curricular change, we recommend further research to evaluate the relative impact of individual factors, admissions factors, and the formal or hidden curricula on entrepreneurial intention in veterinary final-year students.
关于兽医创业倾向，我们知之甚少。然而，创业和内部创业（员工的创业行为）能促进商业创新与增长，并在提供当代兽医服务的私营企业和公司企业中支持财富创造和就业。我们利用了澳大利亚创业、护理和兽医专业的515名最后一年学生的回答，来获取创业意向（EI）、结果期望（OE-sb）、创业自我效能感（ESE）以及企业/大型组织工作意向（CWI）。兽医专业的受访者以其高创业意向和高结果期望脱颖而出，但财务方面的创业自我效能感低，且企业工作意向低。兽医、创业和护理专业受访者在代表创业、内部创业、兼具创业和内部创业、无差异以及企业就业意向和属性的不同聚类概况中的比例差异显著。事后分析揭示了来自不同兽医学院的受访者在聚类成员比例上的差异。我们的研究结果引发了以下问题：（1）专注于费用管理的兽医商业课程能力的有效性；（2）新进入兽医行业者的动机和目标不匹配的影响，他们在企业环境中工作的意愿较低，这与兽医诊所企业所有权的增加不一致。为了为课程改革提供信息，我们建议进行进一步研究，以评估个体因素、录取因素以及正式或隐性课程对兽医专业最后一年学生创业意向的相对影响。
