An Empirical Study on the Quality of Entrepreneurship Education based on Performance Excellence Management
Yonghui Cao 1,2,3
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Henan University of Economics and Law, CHINA
 
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Henan Institute of Science and Technology, CHINA
 
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China Institute for Reform and Development, CHINA
 
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Zhejiang University, CHINA
 
 
Online publication date: 2017-08-22
 
 
Publication date: 2017-08-22
 
 
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Yonghui Cao   

School of E-commerce and Logistics Management, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, 450046, China; School of Economics & Management, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, 453003, China; China Institute for Reform and Development, Haikou; 570312, China.
 
 
He Jiang   

School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
 
 
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2017;13(8):5663-5673
 
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The performance excellence model provides a framework for the implementation of total quality management in Colleges and universities, based on the practice of entrepreneurship education in China’s colleges and universities, this paper uses the excellent performance management model to conduct an empirical analysis of the quality of entrepreneurship education, and gets the following conclusions: First, the driving wheel of entrepreneurship education consists of three dimensions: the leadership support of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship education strategy and market orientation, the driven wheel of entrepreneurship education includes entrepreneurship education resource allocation, the process of entrepreneurship education, the measurement and improvement of entrepreneurship education. Second, in the driving wheel, the leadership support of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship education market orientation have a positive effect on soft quality and hard quality of entrepreneurship education; the entrepreneurship education strategy only has a positive effect on the soft quality of entrepreneurship education, but on the hard quality is not verified. Third, in the driven wheel, entrepreneurship education resource allocation and the process have a positive effect on soft quality and hard quality of entrepreneurship education; the measurement and improvement of entrepreneurship education has positive effect on the hard quality of entrepreneurship education, but to the soft quality has not been verified.
 
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