A study on the factors that Influencing entrepreneurship intention among university students at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sungai Petani, Kedah / Nurul Shamira Mohd Badrisam

Entrepreneurship had existed for centuries, it also is one of the main sources of wealth for a countries economic development. According to Malaysian history, trading activities or entrepreneurship activities had been around since the mid-15th century and Malacca is international trade center during...

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Main Author: Mohd Badrisam, Nurul Shamira
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54799/1/54799.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54799/
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Summary:Entrepreneurship had existed for centuries, it also is one of the main sources of wealth for a countries economic development. According to Malaysian history, trading activities or entrepreneurship activities had been around since the mid-15th century and Malacca is international trade center during that time. Entrepreneurship intention is the individual thought and actions towards their willingness and intent to create new business. It is the individual behavior that influence their individual desire to get involve in business or become the entrepreneur to create and start the business. The main objective of this research project is to find out the factors that influencing entrepreneurship intention among university students. The three components of Theory of Planned Behavior {TPB) are attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control will be discussed further in this research studies. Past researcher's work will helpful in develop the hypothesis in this research project. The research is done through distributing 285 questionnaires to respondents while the target population is all the students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sungai Petani, Kedah. During the process of analyzing data, the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used. Respondent's feedback was analyzed and presented through the test of Pearson's Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis. The research finding tells us that all of these relationships were found to be significant. Based on the finding tells us. The research finding tells us that all of these relationship were found to be significant. Based on the findings, it also found most of intention to involved in entrepreneurship among university students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sungai Petani, Kedah and the most dominant factor influencing entrepreneurship intention among university students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sungai Petani, Kedah was attitude. As the finalist of this research study, discussion on major findings, limitation as well as recommendation for future research will be discuss in more detailed.