The Impact Of Students’ Attitude And Role Of Family On Entrepreneurial Intention Among UTeM Undergraduates

Tan, Hui Ching (2015) The Impact Of Students’ Attitude And Role Of Family On Entrepreneurial Intention Among UTeM Undergraduates. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The importance of the entrepreneurial to Malaysian economy affect the Malaysia governments in the economic plan which government are encourage Malaysian’s people in the culture of entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurial intention is a driving force which people wish to create a new business venture (Wu and Wu, 2008). In this research, the researcher aimed to know what is the factors impacting student’ entrepreneurial intention and how the factor influence students’ entrepreneurial intention in starting up a business among UTeM undergraduate. Hence, the researcher find out the six factors which included family business background, family support, attitude toward entrepreneurship, attitude toward self-efficacy, attitude toward risk-taking, and attitude toward work-effort that affect on entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, total of 200 students are be respondents in this research by carried out the survey questionnaire. The result of statistical analyses have been analyzed by using Pearson’s Correlation to study how the factor influence students’ entrepreneurial intention in starting up a business and using Linear Regression Analysis to study what is the factors impacting student’ entrepreneurial intention. After conducting the result through SPSS, five out of six factor (role of family, family business background, attitude toward entrepreneurship, attitude toward self-efficacy, attitude toward risk-taking, and attitude toward work-effort) shown positively related to entrepreneurial intention and attitude toward entrepreneurial shown the most critical factor that impact on entrepreneurial intention. As a conclusion, the attitude toward entrepreneurial factor play an important role in affecting the entrepreneurial intention.

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