Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia
The maze around Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has led youth to narrow their focus on technologies that matters in venturing into new businesses. Internet in particular offers countless of opportunities that one with efficient skills could get with promising benefit of brighter care...
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| author | Parvin, Ali Omar, Siti Zobidah Osman, Mohd Nizam Tamam, Ezhar |
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| description | The maze around Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has led youth to narrow their focus on technologies that matters in venturing into new businesses. Internet in particular offers countless of opportunities that one with efficient skills could get with promising benefit of brighter career possibilities and income expansions. The purpose of this study is to examine internet skills competency towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia. This study used a quantitative approach whereby 400 youths in Malaysia were selected as respondents. The study is based on non-probability sampling. The data were gathered through self-administrative questionnaire which has been written in English and Bahasa Melayu. The findings show that youth should accept and practice certain elements such as access to right information, competency in using the internet and acquiring technical skills in order to strengthen their entrepreneurial engagement. The study stresses on the need for youth to advocate and utilize internet resources as it will lead the society for development of entrepreneurial measures for new generation of internet users. |
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| spelling | upm-770432020-03-04T07:27:44Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77043/ Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia Parvin, Ali Omar, Siti Zobidah Osman, Mohd Nizam Tamam, Ezhar The maze around Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has led youth to narrow their focus on technologies that matters in venturing into new businesses. Internet in particular offers countless of opportunities that one with efficient skills could get with promising benefit of brighter career possibilities and income expansions. The purpose of this study is to examine internet skills competency towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia. This study used a quantitative approach whereby 400 youths in Malaysia were selected as respondents. The study is based on non-probability sampling. The data were gathered through self-administrative questionnaire which has been written in English and Bahasa Melayu. The findings show that youth should accept and practice certain elements such as access to right information, competency in using the internet and acquiring technical skills in order to strengthen their entrepreneurial engagement. The study stresses on the need for youth to advocate and utilize internet resources as it will lead the society for development of entrepreneurial measures for new generation of internet users. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77043/1/77043.pdf Parvin, Ali and Omar, Siti Zobidah and Osman, Mohd Nizam and Tamam, Ezhar (2019) Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9 (12). pp. 149-160. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/papers/detail/IJARBSS/6683 10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i12/6683 |
| spellingShingle | Parvin, Ali Omar, Siti Zobidah Osman, Mohd Nizam Tamam, Ezhar Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title | Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title_full | Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title_short | Unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in Malaysia |
| title_sort | unleashing the power of internet skills towards entrepreneurship engagement among youth in malaysia |
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