Students’ Behavioral Intentions Regarding the Future Use of Quantitative Research Methods

Polona  Tominc; Maruša Krajnc; Klavdija  Vivod; Monty Lynn; Blaž Frešer

Polona Tominc
Maruša Krajnc
Klavdija Vivod
Monty Lynn
Blaž Frešer

Keywords: students’ behavioral intentions, quantitative statistical methods

Abstract

Changes regarding the importance of graduates’ competences by employers and changes of competences themselves are to a great extend driven by the technological changes, digitalization, and big data. Among these competences, the ability to perform business and data analytics, based on statistical thinking and data mining, is becoming extremely important. In this paper, we study the relationships among several constructs that are related to attitudes of economics and business students regarding quantitative statistical methods and to students’ intention to use them in the future. Findings of our research provide important insights for practitioners, educators, lecturers, and curricular management teams.

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Author Biographies

Polona Tominc

University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia
E-mail: polona.tominc@um.si

Polona Tominc, Ph.D., is a full-time Professor in the Department of Quantitative Economic Analysis at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. Her research is focused on statistical methods in economics and business sciences, especially in the field of entrepreneurship, gender differences and behavioural differences between social groups in different fields of management.

Maruša Krajnc

Master student at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia
E-mail: marusa1993@gmail.com

Maruša Krajnc is a Master student of Economics and Business Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor (UM FEB). She bases her work in the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation. In 2015, she completed a professional higher education program in Business Administration at the UM FEB. She currently conducts professional accounting work.

Klavdija Vivod

Master student at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia
E-mail: klavdija.vivod@student.um.si

Klavdija Vivod is a Master student of Economics and Business Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor (UM FEB). She bases her work in the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation. She completed her undergraduate studies at the UM FEB. She is currently engaged in professional work in the field of accounting and finance.

Monty Lynn

Abilene Christian University, College of Business Administration, Abilene, Texas, USA
E-mail: lynnm@acu.edu

Monty Lynn, Ph.D., is the Caruth Chair of the Owner-Managed Business in the College of Business Administration at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas (USA), where he teaches business and development studies. His recent research interests include market systems development and the assessment of development initiatives. In 1994-1995, he served as a Fulbright scholar with the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Economics and Business.

Blaž Frešer

University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia
E-mail: blaz.freser1@um.si

Blaž Frešer obtained his Master’s degree in Economics and Business Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor (UM FEB). Blaž is a junior researcher and assistant in the field of entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, where he successfully completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in the field of accounting, auditing and taxation. His doctoral studies are focused on the financial aspects of entrepreneurship.

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