Author(s): Jacques Hendieh, Dani Aoun, Alfred Osta
The purpose of the article was to study the students’ attitudes toward the entrepreneurial behavior and the importance of university education to their future entrepreneurial career by exploring and analyzing the factors that influence the behaviors and attitudes of university students toward entrepreneurship. The significance of our research is in the fact that it adds to an important literature gap, and it offers a better understanding of the motives and barriers to entrepreneurship in developing countries, focusing on a middle-eastern developing country: Lebanon. This relationship is examined using surveys for students at the Arab Open University Lebanon. Binary logistic regression analysis indicates that entrepreneurial behavior is positively associated with age, gender, family support and negatively with the family expectation. Implications for universities and public policy and future research are discussed.