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A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education (ETR 300) on students' inclination to start a business. We believe that a proper entrepreneurship education would be able to instil! interest in the students to start a business. Therefore, a study was c...

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Main Authors: Law, Kuan Kheng, Kor, Liew Kee, Ui, Wei Lii, Khamis, Muhammad Sazri
Format: Research Reports
Language:English
Published: 2007
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HB Economic Theory. Demography
Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45607/1/45607.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.456072021-05-18T08:03:16Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45607/ A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.] Law, Kuan Kheng Kor, Liew Kee Ui, Wei Lii Khamis, Muhammad Sazri HB Economic Theory. Demography Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty The main purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education (ETR 300) on students' inclination to start a business. We believe that a proper entrepreneurship education would be able to instil! interest in the students to start a business. Therefore, a study was conducted to verify whether ETR 300 served its objective of providing the necessary knowledge and motivation for the UiTM Kedah students to start a business was felt to be timely. This is also in line with the government's efforts to promote entrepreneurship as an alternative for our graduates to be self-employed rather than competing for a job in a tight labour market. The scope of the study was limited to students in UiTM Kedah taking the subject of ETR 300 consisting of 141 respondents. The research instrument drafted was named the Students' Entrepreneurial Index, SE! which consists of 39 items that designed to tap into the three dimensions of entrepreneurship readiness: (a) Entrepreneurial Inclination; (b) Contextual Factors; and (c) Desirability of Control. The findings of this study suggested that the ETR 300 subject was able to enhance the entrepreneurial inclination among the students. Nevertheless, students' high achievement grade in the final examination of ETR 300 subject had no significant relationship with their entrepreneurial inclination. The findings also revealed that gender did make a difference in their entrepreneurial inclination. Furthermore, it was found that the effect of previous exposure to entrepreneurship i.e. family business involvement contributed significantly to the difference in the mean score for SE! as well as its subscales. In conclusion, this study showed that ETR 300 was able to instil! in the students their intention to start a business. It is suggested that the university should seriously look into the feasibility of making enterprise education compulsory to all students of UiTM to mould a greater number of students to be interested and enthusiastic to start their own business after graduation. 2007 Research Reports NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45607/1/45607.pdf ID45607 Law, Kuan Kheng and Kor, Liew Kee and Ui, Wei Lii and Khamis, Muhammad Sazri (2007) A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]. [Research Reports] (Unpublished)
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topic HB Economic Theory. Demography
Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory. Demography
Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Law, Kuan Kheng
Kor, Liew Kee
Ui, Wei Lii
Khamis, Muhammad Sazri
A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
description The main purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education (ETR 300) on students' inclination to start a business. We believe that a proper entrepreneurship education would be able to instil! interest in the students to start a business. Therefore, a study was conducted to verify whether ETR 300 served its objective of providing the necessary knowledge and motivation for the UiTM Kedah students to start a business was felt to be timely. This is also in line with the government's efforts to promote entrepreneurship as an alternative for our graduates to be self-employed rather than competing for a job in a tight labour market. The scope of the study was limited to students in UiTM Kedah taking the subject of ETR 300 consisting of 141 respondents. The research instrument drafted was named the Students' Entrepreneurial Index, SE! which consists of 39 items that designed to tap into the three dimensions of entrepreneurship readiness: (a) Entrepreneurial Inclination; (b) Contextual Factors; and (c) Desirability of Control. The findings of this study suggested that the ETR 300 subject was able to enhance the entrepreneurial inclination among the students. Nevertheless, students' high achievement grade in the final examination of ETR 300 subject had no significant relationship with their entrepreneurial inclination. The findings also revealed that gender did make a difference in their entrepreneurial inclination. Furthermore, it was found that the effect of previous exposure to entrepreneurship i.e. family business involvement contributed significantly to the difference in the mean score for SE! as well as its subscales. In conclusion, this study showed that ETR 300 was able to instil! in the students their intention to start a business. It is suggested that the university should seriously look into the feasibility of making enterprise education compulsory to all students of UiTM to mould a greater number of students to be interested and enthusiastic to start their own business after graduation.
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author Law, Kuan Kheng
Kor, Liew Kee
Ui, Wei Lii
Khamis, Muhammad Sazri
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Kor, Liew Kee
Ui, Wei Lii
Khamis, Muhammad Sazri
author_sort Law, Kuan Kheng
title A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
title_short A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
title_full A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
title_fullStr A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed A study of entrepreneurship subject (ETR 300) on UiTM Kedah students' intention to start a business / Law Kuan Kheng ... [et al.]
title_sort study of entrepreneurship subject (etr 300) on uitm kedah students' intention to start a business / law kuan kheng ... [et al.]
publishDate 2007
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