How Lifestyle, Professional and Financial Criteria Influence Students’ Personal Vision to Become Entrepreneurs. Evidence from Romania

Abstract

A personal vision is a picture of what success looks like, an idea of what people want to achievewith their lives. It influences all areas including family, well-being, leisure, morality and work. Thepurpose of this paper is to investigate different aspects that can define the personal vision of astudent who wants to start his business in the near future. The authors analysed personal visionthrough the prism of some variables identified in 3 sections: lifestyle, professional and financialcriteria, using SPSS 20.0 Software. The results pointed out that there is a relationship between thenumber of hours worked in the maturity phase of a business and the students’ priority, but alsobetween the value of personal investment and the value for the desired profit, while for those whothink that a business supports and cultivates morals, beliefs and standards, family involvement isimportant in their company running.

Keywords

• personal vision
• lifestyle criteria
• professional criteria
• financial criteria
• entrepreneurship