The willingness to become an entrepreneur: a survey of non business undergraduate’s students of UiTM Samarahan / Samantha Hoiden

• Main Author: Hoiden, Samantha
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Business
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/81032/1/81032.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/81032/

This study was carried out to study the willingness of non-business students towards entrepreneurship and what are the factors that influenced their intention towards entrepreneurship. Thus, for this purpose, questionnaires were distributed to UITM Samarahan Campus’ degree students who are from the non-business faculties. This study was divided into two stages. The first stage involved collecting and analyzing data from questionnaires. The second stage, hypothesis was tested based on the variables in selected theoretical model. The findings shows the level of the students’ willingness to become an entrepreneur and the contributing factors identified were personal desire, entrepreneurial education and family background.