Determinants of university students' intention to become an entrepreneur

• Main Author: Giam, Phoebe Xin Rou
• Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HM Sociology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/1/202306%2D18_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU_PHOEBE_GIAM_XIN_ROU.pdf; http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6311/
• Institution: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

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.