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Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]

This study attempts to investigate the factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship. A total of 200 youth entrepreneurs ages between 15 to 35 years old from various states in Malaysia are randomly selected as respondents. The influencing factors such as environment, fam...

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Main Authors: Harun, Nor Hidayah, Johar, Norchahaya, Maliki, Marinah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Business education
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35543/1/35543.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35543/
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spelling my.uitm.ir.355432021-06-03T07:12:20Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35543/ Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.] Harun, Nor Hidayah Johar, Norchahaya Maliki, Marinah Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty Business education This study attempts to investigate the factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship. A total of 200 youth entrepreneurs ages between 15 to 35 years old from various states in Malaysia are randomly selected as respondents. The influencing factors such as environment, family, financial literacy and personal characteristics have been analyzed as the predictor to the youth involvement in entrepreneurship. Descriptive analysis is used to describe the profile of the respondents, while the relationship between the predictors is tested empirically using Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis is employed in order to determine the most influencing factor that contribute to the youth involvement in entrepreneurship. The findings reveal that all the predictors have a positive relationship with Malaysian youth’s involvement in entrepreneurship except for the financial literacy. The regression analysis also indicates that the personal characteristic of the youth is the main influencing factor that contributes to the involvement in entrepreneurship. This study is expected to motivate the youth to be entrepreneur so as to boost economic growth and lessen unemployment rate in Malaysia. 2014-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35543/1/35543.pdf ID35543 Harun, Nor Hidayah and Johar, Norchahaya and Maliki, Marinah (2014) Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]. In: TeSSHI 2014, 5 & 6 Nov 2014, One Hotel Helang, Langkawi Kedah Malaysia.
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
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language English
topic Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Business education
spellingShingle Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Business education
Harun, Nor Hidayah
Johar, Norchahaya
Maliki, Marinah
Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
description This study attempts to investigate the factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship. A total of 200 youth entrepreneurs ages between 15 to 35 years old from various states in Malaysia are randomly selected as respondents. The influencing factors such as environment, family, financial literacy and personal characteristics have been analyzed as the predictor to the youth involvement in entrepreneurship. Descriptive analysis is used to describe the profile of the respondents, while the relationship between the predictors is tested empirically using Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis is employed in order to determine the most influencing factor that contribute to the youth involvement in entrepreneurship. The findings reveal that all the predictors have a positive relationship with Malaysian youth’s involvement in entrepreneurship except for the financial literacy. The regression analysis also indicates that the personal characteristic of the youth is the main influencing factor that contributes to the involvement in entrepreneurship. This study is expected to motivate the youth to be entrepreneur so as to boost economic growth and lessen unemployment rate in Malaysia.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Harun, Nor Hidayah
Johar, Norchahaya
Maliki, Marinah
author_facet Harun, Nor Hidayah
Johar, Norchahaya
Maliki, Marinah
author_sort Harun, Nor Hidayah
title Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
title_short Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
title_full Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
title_fullStr Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing the involvement of Malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / Nor Hidayah Harun ... [et al.]
title_sort factors influencing the involvement of malaysian youth in entrepreneurship / nor hidayah harun ... [et al.]
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35543/1/35543.pdf
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