Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students

Entrepreneurship in Malaysia is not only contributing to economic growth but also enables university students to create their own businesses and provide job opportunities to the society. This study aimed to explore an entrepreneurial inclination among postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malays...

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Main Author: Nadira Aqiella, Jamaluddin
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Language:eng
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Published: 2019
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spelling my-uum-etd.90732023-03-14T04:30:02Z Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students 2019 Nadira Aqiella, Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti School of Business Management School of Business Management HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Entrepreneurship in Malaysia is not only contributing to economic growth but also enables university students to create their own businesses and provide job opportunities to the society. This study aimed to explore an entrepreneurial inclination among postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. Accordingly, the researcher has put forward one variable namely creative personality as one of the variables that influenced entrepreneurial inclination of the postgraduate students. 143 questionnaires were distributed to postgraduate students under Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business. 120 questionnaires were returned and 102 of which provided usable data for the study. This data was analyzed via the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the influence of the variables towards entrepreneurial inclination of postgraduate students. The finding showed that the creative personality factor has no significant relationship on the entrepreneurial inclination. In addition, the dimension of creative personality (curiosity, flexibility, useful, originality, unique and confidence) has no significant relationship on the entrepreneurial inclination of postgraduate students. The study further contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship where similar studies are generally scarce. Finally, study limitations and suggestions for and future research are provided and discussed. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/1/s823602_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/2/s823602_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/3/s823602_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
collection UUM ETD
language eng
eng
eng
advisor Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti
topic HB615-715 Entrepreneurship
Risk and uncertainty
Property
spellingShingle HB615-715 Entrepreneurship
Risk and uncertainty
Property
Nadira Aqiella, Jamaluddin
Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
description Entrepreneurship in Malaysia is not only contributing to economic growth but also enables university students to create their own businesses and provide job opportunities to the society. This study aimed to explore an entrepreneurial inclination among postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. Accordingly, the researcher has put forward one variable namely creative personality as one of the variables that influenced entrepreneurial inclination of the postgraduate students. 143 questionnaires were distributed to postgraduate students under Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business. 120 questionnaires were returned and 102 of which provided usable data for the study. This data was analyzed via the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the influence of the variables towards entrepreneurial inclination of postgraduate students. The finding showed that the creative personality factor has no significant relationship on the entrepreneurial inclination. In addition, the dimension of creative personality (curiosity, flexibility, useful, originality, unique and confidence) has no significant relationship on the entrepreneurial inclination of postgraduate students. The study further contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship where similar studies are generally scarce. Finally, study limitations and suggestions for and future research are provided and discussed.
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title Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
title_short Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
title_full Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
title_fullStr Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
title_full_unstemmed Creative personality and entrepreneurial inclination among UUM postgraduate students
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granting_institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department School of Business Management
publishDate 2019
url https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/1/s823602_01.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/2/s823602_02.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/9073/3/s823602_references.docx
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