Entrepreneurial intention : an empirical study among Open University Malaysia (OUM) students
It has always been the interest of our government to promote entrepreneurship and new venture in business as a mean to enhance economic growth for the nation and creating jobs to help to solve the problem of unemployment. The research conducted particularly among the students of Open...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/306/1/Entrepreneurial_Intention_An_Empirical_Study_among_OUM_Students.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/306/ |
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| Summary: | It has always been the interest of our government to promote entrepreneurship and
new venture in business as a mean to enhance economic growth for the nation and creating
jobs to help to solve the problem of unemployment.
The research conducted particularly among the students of Open University Malaysia
(OUM) has attempted to understand the factors that stimulate or impede their entrepreneurial
intention. The study has also focused on examining how many OUM students possess the
entrepreneurial intention towards self-employment, how the relationship of demographic
factors affecting their entrepreneurial intention, and lastly but not least how is the curriculum
offered in OUM has helped to promote students' interest in entrepreneurship.
It appears that the students find entrepreneurship both personally and generally
desirable which suggests that entrepreneurial career in future might become more typical and
popular among university graduates. However, training and skill development programs are
necessary to increase the personal capabilities and generate interest and intention among
students to have positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship.
This survey has also confirmed the previous studies by others that the male persons at
their prime age of 31-45 years old continue to be the most active group in terms of
entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurial role models in the family has a positive effect
on the entrepreneurial perception and intentions.
It also appears that the entrepreneurial intention among female students is fairly low.
This paper suggests that there should be continuous effort to promote female
entrepreneurship and continuous effort from university to work closely with a variety of
business support agencies or other government agencies to raise students' awareness of
various avenues of support and programs available to assist them in their business start-ups. (Author's abstract) |
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