Influence of selected factors toward entrepreneurial career intentions among students of community colleges in selected states of Malaysia
Although many past studies have shown that community college students have high level of entrepreneurial intentions, but the number of community college graduates who chose to pursue entrepreneurial career after the completion of their studies are still less favourable. Besides that, despite ther...
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| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77548/1/FPP%202019%2014%20ir.pdf |
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| Summary: | Although many past studies have shown that community college students have high
level of entrepreneurial intentions, but the number of community college graduates
who chose to pursue entrepreneurial career after the completion of their studies are
still less favourable. Besides that, despite there are many past studies involving
community college students, there is still lack of studies involving states which have
recorded a high rate of self-employment.
Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the relationship between the selected
factors and entrepreneurial career intentions among students of community college
from the selected states. The selected factors in this study are attitude towards
entrepreneurship, subjective norms, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial
exposure. This correlational research was theoretically based on the Theory of Planned
Behaviour (TPB) by Ajzen (1991) and Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) by
Lent, Brown and Hackett (1994).
This study consisted of 265 community college students in Kedah, Pahang and Perak.
Cluster random sampling was applied in selecting the samples. The Pearson
Correlation (r) and multiple regression analysis were used as the main inferential
statistical analysis for this study. The instrument used was modified based on several
sources of past studies and had gone through a content validity process. The instrument
has a reliability value with a Cronbach α value between 0.75 to 0.91.
The results indicate that all the selected factors have a positive and significant
correlation with entrepreneurial career intentions. Attitude towards entrepreneurship was found to have a strong correlation with entrepreneurial career intentions (r=.597,
p<.01). Meanwhile, entrepreneurial self-efficacy (r=.362, p<.01) and subjective norms
(r=.327, p<.01) had a moderate correlation with entrepreneurial career intentions.
Entrepreneurial exposure (r=.263, p<.01) was reported to have a low correlation with
entrepreneurial career intentions. As a conclusion, all the selected factors showed a significant and positive relationship
with entrepreneurial career intentions. Among all the selected factors, attitude towards
entrepreneurship exerts the strongest influence toward entrepreneurial career
intentions. This indicates that if the students have positive perceptions toward the
benefits and outcomes of entrepreneurial career, they are likely to pursue an
entrepreneurial career. Thus, it is important that entrepreneurship education in
community college focuses on raising students’ awareness regarding the benefits and
outcomes of entrepreneurial career in order to encourage more students to pursue
entrepreneurial career. This study provides an enriched contribution to the knowledge
and significant implication to the practices of entrepreneurship. This study also signals
to policy makers as well as entrepreneurship educators to further nourish the
entrepreneurial career intentions among the students, so that it can be turned into actual
entrepreneurial behaviour. |
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