Entrepreneurial intention among students of publics higher learning institution in Sarawak / Hameeza Hamden

• Main Author: Hamden, Hameeza
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: HB Economic Theory. Demography; Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty; LG Individual institutions
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43552/1/43552.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43552/

Entrepreneurship is an intentional process, which an individual choose to be an entrepreneurs to start a business or a firm. The exacerbating situation of structural unemployment of university graduates in Malaysia necessitates an urgent need to study entrepreneurial intention as a career choice. This study investigates the entrepreneurial intention among students of publics higher learning institution in Sarawak. Specifically, the purpose of this paper was to explore the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions that create strong propensity of university students as indicators to involve in entrepreneurship world. Applying Aj zen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the study used the three antecedents underlined in the TPB model (i.e. attitudes towards entrepreneurial, perceived behavioural control and subjective norm).