Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia

The issue of employability is rising year by year, and Malaysia is also taking it as a serious challenge. The Malaysian government has carried out various initiatives to address the issue of employability; conversely, one of them was successfully promoting the development of entrepreneurship by incr...

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Main Authors: Raazi, A. *, Farkad, M., Tehseen, Shehnaz *, Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan, Jannat, U. M.
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spelling my.sunway.eprints.12752020-05-05T06:34:25Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1275/ Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia Raazi, A. * Farkad, M. Tehseen, Shehnaz * Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan Jannat, U. M. HF Commerce LB2300 Higher Education The issue of employability is rising year by year, and Malaysia is also taking it as a serious challenge. The Malaysian government has carried out various initiatives to address the issue of employability; conversely, one of them was successfully promoting the development of entrepreneurship by increasing entrepreneurial courses for instance. The intention was to increase the entrepreneurial intentions amongst university's students to create job opportunities for themselves which could lead to a boost for a developing nation's economy as well. However, the government's initiatives did not succeed as they were expected. The main reason for it ending as a flopped plan was due to failing to identify an individual's intentions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this research is to inspect the Malaysian universities student's intention of being an entrepreneur because, without intention, they might not even consider the option of initiating their own business. This research adapted and integrated the two most common models of examining the entrepreneurial intention, i.e, Theory of Planned Behaviour ('TPB') by Ajzen and Shapero and Sokol's model of an Entrepreneurial Event ('SEE'). This is a quantitative study and a total of 160 students from different Malaysian universities were surveyed using non-probability sampling techniques and by a well-established instrument with the standardized questionnaire, to examine hypothesized relationships. SPSS was used for analyzing the demographic profile and SMART-PLS was utilized for testing the developed hypotheses. The results show that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control positively affect the perceived desirability as well as perceived feasibility. Moreover, perceived desirability and perceived feasibility are also positively associated with an entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, perceived desirability is found as a mediator for the relationship among predictors of entrepreneurial intention but perceived feasibility fails to mediate the association of subjective norm and entrepreneurial intention. By understanding the background of university student's intentions towards entrepreneurship, the Malaysian government and organizations can better present themselves in formulating better initiatives to stimulate and encourage youth to have entrepreneurial intentions in order to initiate their own business. This study also offers some useful managerial implications using the advanced technique of IPM to enhance the H1 H2 H3 H6 H5 H4 H7 H8 performance of critical factors that contribute towards entrepreneurial intentions. 2010-12-14 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1275/1/Shehnaz%20Tehseen%20Entrepreneurial%20Intentions%20%282020%29.pdf Raazi, A. * and Farkad, M. and Tehseen, Shehnaz * and Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan and Jannat, U. M. (2010) Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia. In: 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS), 14-15 December 2019, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan.
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topic HF Commerce
LB2300 Higher Education
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LB2300 Higher Education
Raazi, A. *
Farkad, M.
Tehseen, Shehnaz *
Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan
Jannat, U. M.
Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
description The issue of employability is rising year by year, and Malaysia is also taking it as a serious challenge. The Malaysian government has carried out various initiatives to address the issue of employability; conversely, one of them was successfully promoting the development of entrepreneurship by increasing entrepreneurial courses for instance. The intention was to increase the entrepreneurial intentions amongst university's students to create job opportunities for themselves which could lead to a boost for a developing nation's economy as well. However, the government's initiatives did not succeed as they were expected. The main reason for it ending as a flopped plan was due to failing to identify an individual's intentions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this research is to inspect the Malaysian universities student's intention of being an entrepreneur because, without intention, they might not even consider the option of initiating their own business. This research adapted and integrated the two most common models of examining the entrepreneurial intention, i.e, Theory of Planned Behaviour ('TPB') by Ajzen and Shapero and Sokol's model of an Entrepreneurial Event ('SEE'). This is a quantitative study and a total of 160 students from different Malaysian universities were surveyed using non-probability sampling techniques and by a well-established instrument with the standardized questionnaire, to examine hypothesized relationships. SPSS was used for analyzing the demographic profile and SMART-PLS was utilized for testing the developed hypotheses. The results show that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control positively affect the perceived desirability as well as perceived feasibility. Moreover, perceived desirability and perceived feasibility are also positively associated with an entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, perceived desirability is found as a mediator for the relationship among predictors of entrepreneurial intention but perceived feasibility fails to mediate the association of subjective norm and entrepreneurial intention. By understanding the background of university student's intentions towards entrepreneurship, the Malaysian government and organizations can better present themselves in formulating better initiatives to stimulate and encourage youth to have entrepreneurial intentions in order to initiate their own business. This study also offers some useful managerial implications using the advanced technique of IPM to enhance the H1 H2 H3 H6 H5 H4 H7 H8 performance of critical factors that contribute towards entrepreneurial intentions.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Raazi, A. *
Farkad, M.
Tehseen, Shehnaz *
Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan
Jannat, U. M.
author_facet Raazi, A. *
Farkad, M.
Tehseen, Shehnaz *
Qureshi, Zuhaib Hassan
Jannat, U. M.
author_sort Raazi, A. *
title Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
title_short Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
title_full Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
title_fullStr Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurial intentions among University’s students in Malaysia
title_sort entrepreneurial intentions among university’s students in malaysia
publishDate 2010
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