Business Intentions of Australian Veterinary Students—My Business or Yours? A Cluster Analysis

Author:

Feakes Adele12ORCID,Lindsay Noel2ORCID,Palmer Edward3ORCID,Petrovski Kiro45ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia

2. Adelaide Business School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia

3. School of Education, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia

4. Davies Livestock Research Centre, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia

5. Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia

Abstract

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.

Funder

Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship

Entrepreneurship Commercialisation and Innovation Centre

The University of Adelaide

Provet Group of Companies

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Veterinary,Animal Science and Zoology

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