MBA Admission Criteria and an Entrepreneurial Mind-Set: Evidence From "Western" Style MBAs in India and Thailand

Shepherd, DA; Douglas, EJ; Fitzsimmons, JR

doi:10.5465/AMLE.2008.32712615

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Shepherd, DA

Douglas, EJ

Fitzsimmons, JR

Griffith University Author(s)

Douglas, Evan

Year published

2008

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Abstract

We investigate the assessments of career attractiveness by 283 MBA students from India and Thailand, to use GMAT and work experience to explain variance in mind-sets that have previously been associated with successful managers. The fast-moving global economy requires managers to have an entrepreneurial mind-set, yet we find that MBA students with higher GMAT scores have career mind-sets that are more averse to work effort and to risk, and therefore, the GMAT may discriminate against applicants with a greater propensity to behave entrepreneurially.We investigate the assessments of career attractiveness by 283 MBA students from India and Thailand, to use GMAT and work experience to explain variance in mind-sets that have previously been associated with successful managers. The fast-moving global economy requires managers to have an entrepreneurial mind-set, yet we find that MBA students with higher GMAT scores have career mind-sets that are more averse to work effort and to risk, and therefore, the GMAT may discriminate against applicants with a greater propensity to behave entrepreneurially.
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Academy of Management Learning & Education

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https://doi.org/10.5465/AMLE.2008.32712615

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Curriculum and pedagogy

Entrepreneurship

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http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47628

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