Y KUŞAĞININ GİRİŞİMCİLİK EĞİLİMLERİNİN DEMOGRAFİK DEĞİŞKENLER İLE İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

Today entrepreneurship has changed into a new formation with Generation Y who were born between 1980 and 2000. The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of demographic characteristics of Generation Y on their entrepreneurial tendencies. The study was carried out with 512 Gen Y students of Hereke Ömer İsmet Uzunyol Vocational School of Kocaeli University who took the course titled Introduction to Management. Entrepreneurial tendencies of Generation Y were measured by using the “Entrepreneurship Scale For University Students” developed by Yılmaz and Sünbül in 2009. In the study, factor analysis was carried out. T-test was conducted for the gender variable, and the Kruskal Wallis test was carried out for the variables including education, income, having an entrepreneurial. Significant results were obtained between Gen Y with an entrepreneurial family and their entrepreneurial tendencies supporting the literature.