TY - JOUR
T1 - An innovative stakeholder framework for the Student-Choice Decision making process
AU - El Nemar, Sam
AU - Vrontis, Demetris
AU - Thrassou, Alkis
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This research explores, identifies, defines and refines the conventional tertiary-education student decision-making process, and its contextual and personal innovative multi-layered factors of stakeholder influence. Structurally and methodologically, extant works’ gaps are identified and a theoretical conceptual innovative framework is constructed through an extensive narrative-literature review that uniquely and directly conjoins stakeholder characteristics, innovative information gathering, factors of influence and the decision-making process. A quantitative survey of 617 first-semester tertiary-level students in Lebanon, with qualitative interviews and expert validation sessions, collected and coded data, and applied chi-square and simple correlation, factor analysis, and regression modelling to test and refine the conceptual framework, and to develop a final innovative tertiary education student-choice model. The value of the research stems naturally from its systematic identification, interrelation and testing of all the factors/forces involved; its incorporation of these into a single comprehensive process; and its explicit potentialities that transcend theoretical implications towards practicable entrepreneurial-managerial implementation.
AB - This research explores, identifies, defines and refines the conventional tertiary-education student decision-making process, and its contextual and personal innovative multi-layered factors of stakeholder influence. Structurally and methodologically, extant works’ gaps are identified and a theoretical conceptual innovative framework is constructed through an extensive narrative-literature review that uniquely and directly conjoins stakeholder characteristics, innovative information gathering, factors of influence and the decision-making process. A quantitative survey of 617 first-semester tertiary-level students in Lebanon, with qualitative interviews and expert validation sessions, collected and coded data, and applied chi-square and simple correlation, factor analysis, and regression modelling to test and refine the conceptual framework, and to develop a final innovative tertiary education student-choice model. The value of the research stems naturally from its systematic identification, interrelation and testing of all the factors/forces involved; its incorporation of these into a single comprehensive process; and its explicit potentialities that transcend theoretical implications towards practicable entrepreneurial-managerial implementation.
KW - Customer behaviour
KW - Decision making in higher education
KW - Decision making process
KW - Innovative modelling
KW - Stakeholder influence
KW - Student choice
KW - Tertiary education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.053
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058213340
SN - 0148-2963
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -