The Ffctors affecting entrepreneurial intentions of university students in Malaysia
Date
2017-06Author
Khadeeja, Abdul Salam Taha
Sayang Nurshahrizleen, Ramlan
Idris, Mohd Noor
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The main purpose of this paper is to corroborate the factors affecting
entrepreneurial intentions of university students in Malaysia constructed on
empirical reviews. In this study, general searches were conducted to accumulate
empirical literatures by the name of Entrepreneurship Development,
Entrepreneurship Education and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) in
different online database sources such as Google Scholars, Springer Link,
Wiley, Science Direct, JSTOR, Emerald full text, Scopus, and EBSCO HOST etc.
This study found that innovation, entrepreneurship training & education, family
background, government support program, social entrepreneurship, women
participation, individual entrepreneurial characteristics, participation of micro,
small & medium enterprises, youth empowerment, collaboration of governmentuniversity-
industry is the key tool for entrepreneurship development. Stimulating
employment will eventually help alleviating poverty. This study also found that
there is a strong relation among students entrepreneurial attitude, subjective
norms, perceived behavioural control. Moreover, the entrepreneurship teaching
methodology has moderating effects on every relationship.