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Title

Can applied entrepreneurship education enhance job satisfaction and financial performance? An empirical investigation within the Australian pharmacy profession

Author(s)

Hindle, Kevin;  Cutting, Neil

Abstract

This research investigated a small-scale example of an applied entrepreneurship education program, the Pharmacist Advice Program. 25 New South Wales pharmacists who had undertaken the program were compared to 23 who had not. Non parametric statistical techniques were employed to test the related propositions that pharmacists who learned and applied the entrepreneurship taught in the program (program ‘users’) would experience increased job satisfaction and better sales/profit performance than ‘non-users’. Results support the proposition that entrepreneurship education enhanced job satisfaction. The quantitative analysis on sales/profit performance data was less conclusive but a majority of users believed the applied entrepreneurial learning of the Pharmacist Advice Program led to improvement. The study makes a positive contribution to substantive knowledge in the pharmacy industry and formal theoretical investigation of the field of entrepreneurship education.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Swinburne Graduate School of Management

Source

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 03-06 December 2000, pp. 1-7

Publication year

2000

FOR Code(s)

150304 Entrepreneurship

Publisher

ANZAM

ISBN

1864086009

Publisher URL

http://www.anzam.org/

Copyright

Copyright © 2000 Kevin Hindle and Neil Cutting. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.

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