Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur

An individual’s motivation to engage in business start-ups is determined by his or her own entrepreneurial intention. This research is carried out in order to find out the determinants that affects university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this research is to investigate how attitud...

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Main Author: Giam, Phoebe Xin Rou
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2023
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description An individual’s motivation to engage in business start-ups is determined by his or her own entrepreneurial intention. This research is carried out in order to find out the determinants that affects university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this research is to investigate how attitude towards entrepreneurship, subjective norms, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurship education influence entrepreneurial intention among Malaysia university students. This research focuses on understanding entrepreneurial intention of university students and the overall background of why this research is to be conducted had been provided. The research questions are clearly stated and tested to ensure achieving the research objectives. Then, this research also included literature review to develop a clearer understanding of the dependent and independent variables. The steps, tools and methods that are being used in this research are also clearly mentioned in the research methodology. This research uses online survey questionnaire to collect data of target respondents from different universities in Malaysia. A reliability test is conducted before dissemination of the actual questionnaire. We performed multiple regression analysis through SPSS to analyze the survey results. In the final chapter, we discussed the major findings of this research, identified the limitations of this study and had provided recommendations for further research in the future.
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spelling utar-63112024-04-08T18:13:39Z Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur Giam, Phoebe Xin Rou H Social Sciences (General) HM Sociology An individual’s motivation to engage in business start-ups is determined by his or her own entrepreneurial intention. This research is carried out in order to find out the determinants that affects university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this research is to investigate how attitude towards entrepreneurship, subjective norms, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurship education influence entrepreneurial intention among Malaysia university students. This research focuses on understanding entrepreneurial intention of university students and the overall background of why this research is to be conducted had been provided. The research questions are clearly stated and tested to ensure achieving the research objectives. Then, this research also included literature review to develop a clearer understanding of the dependent and independent variables. The steps, tools and methods that are being used in this research are also clearly mentioned in the research methodology. This research uses online survey questionnaire to collect data of target respondents from different universities in Malaysia. A reliability test is conducted before dissemination of the actual questionnaire. We performed multiple regression analysis through SPSS to analyze the survey results. In the final chapter, we discussed the major findings of this research, identified the limitations of this study and had provided recommendations for further research in the future. 2023 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/1/202306%2D18_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU.pdf Giam, Phoebe Xin Rou (2023) Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HM Sociology
Giam, Phoebe Xin Rou
Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title_full Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title_fullStr Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title_short Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
title_sort determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur
topic H Social Sciences (General)
HM Sociology
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/1/202306%2D18_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU.pdf